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N406ZW

Gary R Arnst AR-1

Valid Montana

N406ZW is a Gary R Arnst AR-1, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to G Amst Farms INC, a corporation in Darby, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Gary R Arnst
Model
AR-1
Serial number
0046
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 915 IS · 135 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2021
Kit
SILVERLIGHT AVIATION LLC AR-1
Transponder code
A4C53F (octal 51142477)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 13, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 19, 2021
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01333220

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
G Amst Farms INC
Type
Corporation
Address
4901 US Hwy 93 South
Darby, MT 59829

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N406ZW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to G Amst Farms INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 13, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 19, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N406ZW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N406ZW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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