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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Industries
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- E049JS
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A807EA (octal 52003752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2010
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00392099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walbert Allin J
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10CA480 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