Robinson Helicopter R66
N566B 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 Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 2023.
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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
- 1237
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A73D4D (octal 51636515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 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 · March 30, 2023
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01387076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee
- 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
- 7804 e Funston St Ste 210
Wichita, KS 67207-3107
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
Connections how N566B links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R66 423 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,189 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C300/A1 355 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Type certificate R00015LA · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Wichita, KS 1,315 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,740 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 N566B, 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 Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued October 9, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 30, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N566B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-1586, cancelled April 22, 2013). 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 N566B: Accident on September 18, 1989 at Escondido, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Beech A35 · operated under 091
SPATIAL DISORIENTATION OF THE PILOT AFTER HE INITIATED FLIGHT INTO IMC CONDITIONS, AND HIS EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE ATTEMPTED RECOVERY. RELATED FACTORS WERE: THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL AND RECENT INSTRUMENT FLIGHT EXPERIENCE, AND THE OPERATOR'S INADEQUATE RECURRENT TRAINING PROGRAM.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data