{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2006-10-12","airworthiness_ops":"Registered before Jan 31, 2008","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-06-30","city":"TERRE HAUTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"167","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55558","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"582UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"light-sport","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Buckeye Powered Parachutes Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BUCKEYE POWERED PARACHUTES INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05901F2","mode_s_code":"51464135","mode_s_hex":"A6685D","model":"DREAM MACHINE","n_number":"N5116N","name":"LAMBERTUS JOHN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"COLORADO CITY","damage":"DEST","date":"1996-11-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"FTW97FA039","probable_cause":"the pilot's encounter with instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and his subsequent loss of aircraft control, due to spatial disorientation.  Factors relating to the accident were: the clouds, low ceilings, and the pilot's lack of recent instrument experience.","registration":"N5116N","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on November 12, 1996 at Colorado City, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5116N is a Buckeye Powered Parachutes Inc DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Terre Haute, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 12, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lambertus John, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 12, 2006, 11 years after the 1995 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3365 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5116N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182Q (serial 18267527, cancelled June 10, 1998); Boeing B-17G (serial 8416, cancelled January 9, 1953). 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":"1 NTSB record under N5116N: Accident on November 12, 1996 at Colorado City, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"3365","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"10675 S MILL ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Powered parachute","type_aircraft_code":"8","type_engine":"Two-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"7","unique_id":"00261879","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5116N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1995,"zip":"478028228"}