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N7173Y

Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE

Valid Illinois

N7173Y is a Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kankakee, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2007 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 16, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Buckeye Aviation
Model
DREAM MACHINE
Serial number
16443
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A998E6 (octal 52314346)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 29, 2007
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 16, 2008
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00371509

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lacost Michael W
Type
Individual
Address
2763 River Rd
Kankakee, IL 60901-7152

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 1

1994-01-26Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164B · exported to Kenya · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data