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N598D

James I Payne BUCKEYE DREAM MACHIN

N598D is a James I Payne BUCKEYE DREAM MACHIN, a powered parachute with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Benton City, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
James I Payne
Model
BUCKEYE DREAM MACHIN
Serial number
003
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A7BB6A (octal 51735552)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 7, 2015
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 13, 2015
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01187856

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Payne James I
Type
Individual
Address
31709 Hummingbird Pr NE
Benton City, WA 99320-8592

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N598D, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Payne James I, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N598D according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N598D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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