Buckeye DREAM MACHINE
N9537J is a Buckeye DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elko, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Buckeye
- Model
- DREAM MACHINE · all DREAM MACHINEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 16408
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD4322 (octal 53241442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00465249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wencel Rodney J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 26640 Woodcrest Ln
Elko, MN 55020-9507
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9537J, 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 Wencel Rodney J, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9537J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T188C (serial T18803817T, cancelled June 6, 2005); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-3665, cancelled April 26, 1968). 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 N9537J: Accident on September 24, 1996 at Snyder, TX: 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: Cessna T188C · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with a pole resulting in the separation of the left aileron and a loss of aircraft control. A factor was the haze.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96TA400 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