Buckeye DREAM MACHINE
N5573J is a Buckeye DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 28, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4939
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A71C36 (octal 51616066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 28, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00409849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bawtinheimer Kris J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 913 Crosby St NW Apt 2
Grand Rapids, MI 49504-3157
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N5573J, 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 Bawtinheimer Kris J, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 2007, 7 years after the 2000 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 4939 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5573J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32-1018, cancelled October 30, 2003). 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 N5573J: Accident on October 30, 2001 at Port Heiden, AK: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-32-260 · operated under 091
The pilot's delay in aborting the landing. Factors in the accident were snow and ice on the runway surface, and the pilot's excessive taxi speed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC02LA004 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