Cook Timothy HUMMER 260L
N777TC is a Cook Timothy HUMMER 260L, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Byrdstown, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 13, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cook Timothy
- Model
- HUMMER 260L
- Serial number
- 0834
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435-A1F · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD 260L
- Transponder code
- AA84B4 (octal 52502264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 13, 2018
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01281894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cook Timothy
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 355
Byrdstown, TN 38549-0355
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N777TC, 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 Cook Timothy, an individual, certificate issued August 23, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 13, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0834 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N777TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-2632, cancelled April 17, 2006). 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 N777TC: Accident on August 18, 2021 at Livingston, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hummer 260L · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s operation of the helicopter in a flight regime that would not allow for a successful autorotative landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA335 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