Buckeye Industries Inc DREAM MACHINE
N9274V is a Buckeye Industries Inc DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Goshen, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 25, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye Industries Inc
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5085
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- ACDB23 (octal 53155443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · August 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00375359
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bontrager Jonathan L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 63749 County Road 15
Goshen, IN 46526-8796
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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 N9274V, 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 Bontrager Jonathan L, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2007, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 2007, 7 years after the 2000 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 5085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9274V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20C (serial 690075, cancelled September 4, 2003). 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 N9274V: Accident on August 25, 2002 at Warroad, MN: no 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: Mooney M20C · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to the failure of the muffler baffles which blocked the exhaust system. A factor to the accident was the treeline.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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