Robinson Helicopter R66
N40DB is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Hummingbird Aire LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO
- Model
- R66 · all R66s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1220
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C300/A1 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A4AA95 (octal 51125225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 9, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01383600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hummingbird Aire LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-1498
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N40DB, 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 Hummingbird Aire LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 9, 2026, 3 years after the 2023 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1220 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40DB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Butzbach SMITH MINIPLANE DSA1 (serial DWB-1, cancelled April 7, 2017). 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 N40DB: Accident on September 16, 2003 at Escondido, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Butzbach Smith Miniplane DSA1 · operated under 091
The pilot's low level aerobatic maneuver and his failure to maintain control of the airplane, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03LA289 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data