Robinson Helicopter R66
N23UP is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to Emerald City Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation in Port Orchard, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 6, 2012.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Black Hills Helicopters and Charters, INC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO
- Model
- R66 · all R66s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R66 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 0270
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C300/A1 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A207F7 (octal 50403767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 6, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01110636
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Emerald City Aircraft Leasing INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1674
Port Orchard, WA 98366-0175
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.
Connections how N23UP links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R66 421 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,176 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Black Hills Helicopters and Charters, INC. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C300/A1 354 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Type certificate R00015LA · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Emerald City Aircraft Leasing INC 74 aircraft in the fleet
- Port Orchard, WA 134 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R66 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R66 47 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R66 27 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C300/A1 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N23UP, 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 Emerald City Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 15, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23UP according to the deregistered file. [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 N23UP: Accident on June 30, 2025 at Tukwila, WA: no 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: Robinson Helicopter CO R66 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain yaw control during a takeoff to a hover in a gusting crosswind, which resulted in a loss of directional control and a subsequent hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data