Tabor W Coates AR-1
N220SM is a Tabor W Coates AR-1, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whitinsville, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tabor W Coates
- Model
- AR-1
- Serial number
- 0029
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- SILVERLIGHT AVIATION LLC AR-1
- Transponder code
- A1E29D (octal 50361235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 4, 2019
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01302565
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cogley William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 398 Douglas Rd
Whitinsville, MA 01588-2025
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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 N220SM, 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 Cogley William, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N220SM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Buchanan James BARRACUDA (serial 271, cancelled September 20, 2013). 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 N220SM: Accident on February 17, 2026 at Kissimmee, 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: Tabor W Coates AR-1 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to obtain the proper rotor rpm during the takeoff roll which resulted in a loss of control.
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 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