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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026William L Hopkins AR-1
N3313 is a William L Hopkins AR-1, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Union Mills, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- William L Hopkins
- Model
- AR-1
- Serial number
- 0034
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- SILVERLIGHT AVIATION LLC AR-1
- Transponder code
- A39C47 (octal 50716107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 28, 2018
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01282633
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wells Gary
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 277
Union Mills, NC 28167-0277
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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 2
Connections how N3313 links to the rest of the register
- William L Hopkins 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,380 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Union Mills, NC 3 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,130 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3313.json.
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The public federal record on N3313, 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 Wells Gary, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3313 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Nagle David R 333 (serial 179, cancelled February 13, 2018); Schleicher AS-K13 (serial 13086, cancelled date not given). 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 N3313: Accident on June 9, 1984 at Stanton, MN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher AS-K13 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data