Russell Croman AR-1
N49RC is a Russell Croman 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 Buda, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Russell Croman
- Model
- AR-1
- Serial number
- 0032
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A60F39 (octal 51407471)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 8, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01278809
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Croman Russell
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 204 Bridges Ln
Buda, TX 78610-9541
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N49RC, 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 Croman Russell, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N49RC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Colman BD-4 (serial BD-653, cancelled March 18, 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 N49RC: Accident on January 27, 1988 at Half Moon Bay, CA: minor 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: Colman BD-4 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88DUK01 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