Buckeye Powered Parachutes Inc DREAM MACHINE
N715PM is a Buckeye Powered Parachutes Inc DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Heyworth, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 20, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Powered Parachutes Inc
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3334
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A98FF1 (octal 52307761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 20, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00429999
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Clarence D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 14145 E 100N
Heyworth, IL 61745
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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 N715PM, 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 Thomas Clarence D, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2008, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 2009, 14 years after the 1995 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 3334 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N715PM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 (serial 31-493, cancelled December 2, 1999). 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 N715PM: Accident on March 22, 1998 at Southport, NC: 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-31-310 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to follow the preflight checklist, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the significance of the accident was the pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft following the loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98FA059 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