Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE
N7173Y is a Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kankakee, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2007 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 16, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Aviation
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 16443
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A998E6 (octal 52314346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2007
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 16, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00371509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lacost Michael W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2763 River Rd
Kankakee, IL 60901-7152
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7173Y, 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 Lacost Michael W, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2007, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 16, 2008, 4 years after the 2004 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 16443 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7173Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B (serial 319B, cancelled January 26, 1994). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7173Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 September 30, 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