{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2021-12-23","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-10-26","city":"GAINESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"139","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55553","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"914UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"SILVERLIGHT AVIATION LLC","kit_model":"AR-1","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Larry F Preiss","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LARRY F PREISS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05640KX","mode_s_code":"51337321","mode_s_hex":"A5BED1","model":"AR-1","n_number":"N47AR","name":"PREISS LARRY F","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Gainesville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-03-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA23FA163","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N47AR","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on March 25, 2023 at Gainesville, GA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Preiss Larry F, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 23, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0053 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N47AR: Accident on March 25, 2023 at Gainesville, GA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"0053","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3637 LODGEHAVEN DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01352542","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N47AR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"305064109"}