Powrachute Corp PC 2000
N56971 is a Powrachute Corp PC 2000, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mcpherson, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 4, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Powrachute Corp
- Model
- PC 2000 · all PC 2000s and related versions
- Serial number
- A-286POW
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A74BC0 (octal 51645700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 4, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00430209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dickhudt Gene R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 401 N Carrie St
Mcpherson, KS 67460-3711
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 N56971, 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 Dickhudt Gene R, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 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 A-286POW for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56971 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R7435066, cancelled August 2, 1995). 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 N56971: Accident on May 15, 1994 at San Antonio, TX: 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-28R-200 · operated under 091
THE PILOT CONTINUED FLIGHT INTO KNOWN ADVERSE WEATHER. THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW94LA157 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