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N4294E

Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE

Valid Indiana

N4294E is a Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mishawaka, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2007 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 18, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Buckeye Industries
Model
DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
Serial number
0003
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A51FF7 (octal 51217767)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 27, 2007
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 18, 2008
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00451469

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hershberger Roy A
Type
Individual
Address
14950 Kelly Rd
Mishawaka, IN 46544-9212

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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

2002-04-10Piper PA-38-112 · exported to Canada · Sale reported

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4294E, 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 Hershberger Roy A, an individual, certificate issued December 27, 2007, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 18, 2008, 11 years after the 1997 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4294E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-78A0534, cancelled April 10, 2002). 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 N4294E. 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