Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE
N4385J is a Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pontiac, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated March 10, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Aviation
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Built of
- fabric wing and steel frameA powered parachute: a fabric wing above a steel-tube cart with the engine and seats. This is how the Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3464
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A543E6 (octal 51241746)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 3, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 10, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00298199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griswold Donald G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 22382 North 1050 East Road
Pontiac, IL 61764
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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
Connections how N4385J links to the rest of the register
- Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE 48 registered
- Buckeye Aviation 74 aircraft on the register
- Built of fabric wing and steel frame · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 582DCDI 578 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Pontiac, IL 17 aircraft registered in this town
- Pontiac Municipal · PNT
- Illinois 8,065 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N4385J, 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 Griswold Donald G, an individual, certificate issued November 3, 2006, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 10, 2007, 11 years after the 1996 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 3464 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4385J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-22773, cancelled August 29, 2002). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4385J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data