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N6166R

Anderson Egerton A MERLIN

Valid Michigan

N6166R is an Anderson Egerton A MERLIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Norton Shores, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 26, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Anderson Egerton A
Model
MERLIN
Serial number
UA003
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A80842 (octal 52004102)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 13, 2011
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 26, 2010
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00392289

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tejchma Robert R
Type
Individual
Address
5649 Henry St
Norton Shores, MI 49441-5835

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

2002-06-20Bell UH-1H · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N6166R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Tejchma Robert R, an individual, certificate issued June 13, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 2010, 12 years after the 1998 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial UA003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6166R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell UH-1H (serial 157199, cancelled June 20, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6166R: Accident on April 4, 1996 at Rainier, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

SEA96FA076Accident on April 4, 1996 at Rainier, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 157199

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1H · operated under 133

failure of the forward power shaft (number 21) bearing. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable, unobstructed terrain for an emergency landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96FA076 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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