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Buckeye Industries SKYHAWK
N5509K is a Buckeye Industries SKYHAWK, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lansing, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 6, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Industries
- Model
- SKYHAWK
- Serial number
- 6145
- 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 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A70308 (octal 51601410)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2009
- 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 · November 6, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00407759
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lopez Jose J
- 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
- 18654 Oakwood Ave
Lansing, IL 60438-3437
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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 N5509K links to the rest of the register
- Buckeye Industries 38 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582 series 1,193 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Lansing, IL 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5509K, 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 Lopez Jose J, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 6, 2007, 6 years after the 2001 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 6145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5509K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 640-340D (serial 66, cancelled March 27, 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]
1 NTSB record under N5509K: Accident on August 3, 1989 at Atlanta, GA: no 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: Convair 640 (340D) · operated under 121
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO PLACE THE AIRPLANE AT A POSITION FROM WHICH A STABILIZED APPROACH TO LANDING COULD BE MADE. HIS PROCEDURE FOR THE RECOVERY FROM THE BOUNCED LANDING WAS INADEQUATE AND THE NOSE GEAR STRUCTURAL STRENGTH WAS EXCEEDED DURING FOLLOWING TOUCHDOWNS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data