Robinson Helicopter R66
N633AF is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. 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 April 7, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 29, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO
- Model
- R66 · all R66s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0680
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C300/A1 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A848E7 (octal 52044347)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 29, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01194804
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Higgins Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7327
The Woodlands, TX 77387-7327
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N633AF, 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 April 7, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 2024, 9 years after the 2015 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 0680 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N633AF according to the deregistered file. [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 N633AF: Accident on June 12, 2025 at Valparaiso, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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
On June 12, 2025, about 1850 eastern daylight time, a Robinson Helicopter R66, N633AF, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Valparaiso, Florida. The pilot and passenger sustained minor injuries, and a second passenger was not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 136 air tour flight. The pilot stated that the accident flight was the fourth air tour flight of the day. After takeoff and during the transition to flight, about 15 ft above the ground, he heard a “pop,” and the helicopter made a hard right nosedive to the gr…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data