Larry F Preiss AR-1
N47AR is a Larry F Preiss AR-1, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gainesville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 23, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Larry F Preiss
- Model
- AR-1
- Serial number
- 0053
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- SILVERLIGHT AVIATION LLC AR-1
- Transponder code
- A5BED1 (octal 51337321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 23, 2021
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01352542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Preiss Larry F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3637 Lodgehaven Dr
Gainesville, GA 30506-4109
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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 N47AR, 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 Preiss Larry F, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 23, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47AR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ross Alfred L KR-2 (serial ALR1, cancelled September 23, 2014). 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 N47AR: Accident on March 25, 2023 at Gainesville, GA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Larry F Preiss AR-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and his failure to detect water-contaminated fuel that resulted in a loss of engine power and subsequent impact with a wire and terrain during an attempted forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23FA163 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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