Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE
N3862V is a Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fishers, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 26, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Aviation
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 16466
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A47446 (octal 51072106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 26, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00428459
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hartman Jean-Christophe S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13818 Promise Rd
Fishers, IN 46038-3621
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3862V, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Hartman Jean-Christophe S, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2008, 3 years after the 2005 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16466 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3862V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076639, cancelled October 10, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N3862V: Accident on December 16, 1995 at S Padre Island, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
VFR flight by the pilot into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and his failure to maintain sufficient altitude (or clearance) above the surface of the water. Factors relating to the accident were: the adverse weather conditions (low ceiling and fog), and the pilot's lack of instrument experience.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96FA071 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data