Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N8066U is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bayphoto Helicopter LLC, an LLC in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2004 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 22, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1273
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AAFB64 (octal 52575544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2004
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 22, 1990
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00004801
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bayphoto Helicopter LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6 Sheffield Rd Hngr 1
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971-1400
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 N8066U, 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 Bayphoto Helicopter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 13, 2004, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated January 22, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1273 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8066U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC-8-52 (serial 45850, cancelled date not given). 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 N8066U: Accident on January 6, 2012 at St Petersburg, FL: no 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 R22 BETA · operated under 091
The flight instructor's delayed remedial action during the pilot-receiving-instruction's practice autorotation that developed a high rate of descent. Contributing to the accident was the pilot-receiving-instruction's improper control inputs during the practice autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12CA137 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