Herr Richard S HUMMINGBIRD 260L
N829SH is a Herr Richard S HUMMINGBIRD 260L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spring Branch, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Herr Richard S
- Model
- HUMMINGBIRD 260L
- Serial number
- 1146
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD 260L
- Transponder code
- AB53E2 (octal 52651742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 20, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01088925
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Herr Richard S
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2018 Mountain Frst
Spring Branch, TX 78070-7060 - Co-owners
- Herr Susan R
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N829SH, 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 Herr Richard S, a co-owned, certificate issued February 10, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N829SH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 3787, cancelled November 25, 2008). 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 N829SH: Accident on April 29, 2024 at Spring Branch, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Vertical Aviation Technologies Hummingbird · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, which resulted in a forced landing and a subsequent impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24FA167 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