Update: Dead Pilot Identified

Updated 4:50 p.m. Thursday

Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton has released the name of the pilot killed in Tuesday's plane crash in Taylorsville, CBS Atlanta reports.

Brian Soper, 70, of Hammond, NY, left upstate New York on Tuesday morning in an RV-6 experimental aircraft. He was alone.

His destination was Eufala, AL.

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The single-engine plane that was registered to a company in Delaware, according to the preliminary report filed by the Federal Aviation Administration.

That report, posted on the FAA website today, confirms that the still-unnamed pilot was the only person on the small, private plane when it plowed into a field along Floyd Creek Church Road shortly after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“Aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances in a field,” reads the report, filed by the FAA field office in College Park. “The 1 person on board was fatally injured.”

The registration number on the report, 262MA, is listed in the FAA registry as belonging to an amateur-built, experimental aircraft owned by P-L Air of Wilmington, DE.

The plane was an RV-6, made from a kit produced by Van's Aircraft.

According to the registration, Carl J. Eckenrode built the plane in 2008, and it was certified as airworthy Nov. 13 that year.

Citing the Bartow County coroner, The Daily Tribune News reported that the pilot was a 70-year-old man from upstate New York whose wallet was found at the crash site.

The National Transportation Safety Board is in charge of the investigation now.