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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Powrachute 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Powrachute Corp
- Model
- PC 2000 · all PC 2000s 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 Powrachute Corp PC 2000 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
- A-286POW
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A74BC0 (octal 51645700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 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 · December 4, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00430209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dickhudt Gene R
- 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
- 401 N Carrie St
Mcpherson, KS 67460-3711
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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 N56971 links to the rest of the register
- Powrachute Corp PC 2000 37 registered
- Powrachute Corp 128 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 582 series 1,193 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Mcpherson, KS 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,754 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data