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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Industries
- Model
- SKYHAWK
- Serial number
- 6145
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A70308 (octal 51601410)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 6, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00407759
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lopez Jose J
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89FA189 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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