James Dereck Shelby SAFARI 400
N666JS is a James Dereck Shelby SAFARI 400, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lucas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James Dereck Shelby
- Model
- SAFARI 400
- Serial number
- CH406
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- CHR INTERNATIONAL INC SAFARI 400
- Transponder code
- A8CB5C (octal 52145534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 14, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01154271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Broughton Tim
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 820 Scarlett Dr
Lucas, TX 75002-8185
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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 N666JS, 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 Broughton Tim, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH406 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N666JS 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 N666JS: Accident on December 9, 2021 at Mckinney, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Chr International Safari 400 · operated under 091
The pilot did not remove the cyclic control lock during preflight, which resulted in a loss of control during the initial hover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA068 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
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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