Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA
N8557H is a Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Lloyd Davis INC, a corporation in Brackettville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 1999 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 18, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 ALPHA · all R22 ALPHAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0460
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ABBD40 (octal 52736500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 1999
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 18, 1985
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00432204
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lloyd Davis INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 527
Brackettville, TX 78832-0527
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 N8557H, 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 Lloyd Davis INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 1999, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 18, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0460 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8557H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American NAVION (serial NAV-4-609, cancelled July 1, 1970). 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 N8557H: Accident on August 17, 1989 at Manassas, VA: 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 R22 · operated under 091
IMPROPER USE OF THE CYCLIC CONTROL BY THE STUDENT PILOT AND HIS FAILURE TO RELINQUISH CONTROL OF THE HELICOPTER TO THE INSTRUCTOR (CFI). A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WAS THE STUDENT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89LA071 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