Richard B Carpenter AR-1
N147AR is a Richard B Carpenter AR-1, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Richey, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Richard B Carpenter
- Model
- AR-1
- Serial number
- 0016
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A0BCC1 (octal 50136301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 19, 2017
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01264533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carpenter Richard B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7438 Dauvin Court
Port Richey, FL 34668
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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
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The public federal record on N147AR, 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 Carpenter Richard B, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 19, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N147AR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-4A (serial 7673, cancelled July 3, 1990). 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 N147AR: Accident on October 21, 2019 at Brooksville, FL: 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: Richard B Carpenter AR-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain the proper rotor speed before takeoff, which resulted in the rotor blade striking the rudder. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to abort the takeoff in a timely manner.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data