Shum Ronald M BUCCANEER II
N4004U is a Shum Ronald M BUCCANEER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 12, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Shum Ronald M
- Model
- BUCCANEER II
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A4AF98 (octal 51127630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00320369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rishel James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 110 Fletcher Pl
Greenville, NC 27858-4723
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N4004U, 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 Rishel James R, an individual, certificate issued February 10, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4004U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-T34 (serial 6006, cancelled August 26, 2003); Cessna 150E (serial 15061404, cancelled August 5, 1965). 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 N4004U: Accident on June 19, 2003 at Marked Tree, AR: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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: Ayres S2R-T34 · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the wire. Contributing factors were the low altitude flight/maneuver and the static wire.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data