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N4278C

Buckeye DREAM MACHINE

Valid Illinois

N4278C is a Buckeye DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vienna, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 31, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Buckeye
Model
DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
Serial number
4595
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A51913 (octal 51214423)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 1, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 31, 2001
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00453079

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Ausdoll Timothy A
Type
Individual
Address
500 Hensley Hills Dr
Vienna, IL 62995-2540

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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 1

1954-09-28Dehavilland DH104 DOVE 2A · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4278C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Van Ausdoll Timothy A, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 31, 2001, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4595 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4278C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DH104 DOVE 2A (serial 04366, cancelled September 28, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4278C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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