Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE
N61638 is a Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Walkerton, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2010 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 12, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Industries
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs 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 Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE 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
- E049JS
- 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
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A807EA (octal 52003752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2010
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · October 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00392099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walbert Allin J
- 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
- 31031 Underwood Rd
Walkerton, IN 46574-8002
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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 N61638 links to the rest of the register
- Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE 29 registered
- Buckeye Industries 38 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
- Walkerton, IN 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,701 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N61638, 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 Walbert Allin J, an individual, certificate issued December 21, 2010, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 12, 2007, 10 years after the 1997 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 E049JS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61638 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 172 64692, cancelled September 7, 1979). 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 N61638: Accident on August 14, 2010 at Seymour, IN: serious 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: Buckeye Industries DREAM MACHINE · operated under 091
An inadvertent encounter with turbulence which exceeded the performance capability of the powered parachute.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data