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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO
- Model
- R66 · all R66s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1237
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C300/A1 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A73D4D (octal 51636515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 30, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01387076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alcyone Trust CORP Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW89GA170 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