Buckeye DREAM MACHINE
N8049V is a Buckeye DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Market, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2008 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 2, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4427
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AAF460 (octal 52572140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 2008
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 2, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00381399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson Ricky E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1505 Whitaker Rd
New Market, TN 37820-4415
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8049V, 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 Watson Ricky E, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 2008, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 2, 2007, 9 years after the 1998 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 4427 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8049V was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 2394, cancelled February 18, 2004); Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1085, cancelled July 21, 1989); Cessna 188 (serial 1880299, cancelled date not given). 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 N8049V: Accident on August 25, 2003 at Encinitas, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Robinson R-22 Beta · operated under 091
The student pilot's spatial disorientation and inadvertent descent into the ocean while maneuvering to avoid inclement weather. Also causal was the flight instructor's inadequate supervision due to his improper approval of his student's preflight preparation and failure to ensure that the flight could be performed under visual flight rules. Contributing factors were the low cloud condition, and the student's improper weather evaluation and preflight planning.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03FA282 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