Rickey L Dyer Sr AR-1
N57AR is a Rickey L Dyer Sr 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 Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rickey L Dyer Sr
- Model
- AR-1
- Serial number
- 0057
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- SILVERLIGHT AVIATION LLC AR-1
- Transponder code
- A74C20 (octal 51646040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 15, 2021
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01350023
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Draper Alan C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 801 Charles Ct
Granbury, TX 76049-5514
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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 3
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The public federal record on N57AR, 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 Draper Alan C, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57AR was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 560XL (serial 560-6105, cancelled August 28, 2018); Bellanca 7ECA (serial 1043-74, cancelled March 5, 2010); Cessna 182L (serial 18259210, cancelled August 19, 1996). 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 N57AR: Accident on August 20, 2023 at Granbury, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Silverlight AR-1 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper takeoff procedure which resulted in a loss of control during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA386 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