{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2007-08-11","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-04","city":"OQUAWKA","country_code":"US","county_code":"071","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55556","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-04","maker":"Buckeye","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BUCKEYE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05901BU","mode_s_code":"50452241","mode_s_hex":"A254A1","model":"DREAM MACHINE","n_number":"N2496J","name":"LUMBECK STEVEN N","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N2496J is a Buckeye DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oquawka, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 11, 2007.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lumbeck Steven N, an individual, certificate issued April 4, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 11, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6058 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N2496J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15065596, cancelled September 26, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N2496J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"6058","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 621","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Powered parachute","type_aircraft_code":"8","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00368529","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N2496J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"614690621"}