Robinson Helicopter R66
N5488H is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Higgins Leasing INC, a corporation in The Woodlands, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO
- Model
- R66 · all R66s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1639
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C300/A1 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A6F91C (octal 51574434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 12, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01522485
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Higgins Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7327
The Woodlands, TX 77387-7327
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5488H, 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 Higgins Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 26, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1639 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5488H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL (serial 18-79, cancelled September 15, 2009). 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 N5488H: Accident on May 26, 2026 at Fort Worth, TX: serious injuries, damage not recorded. 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA203 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