Robinson Helicopter R66
N857TL is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Higgins Leasing INC, a corporation in The Woodlands, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 23, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO
- Model
- R66 · all R66s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0601
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C300/A1 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- ABC30D (octal 52741415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 23, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01168007
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Higgins Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 7327
The Woodlands, TX 77387-7327
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.
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The public federal record on N857TL, 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 Higgins Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 16, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 2020, 5 years after the 2015 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0601 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N857TL 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 N857TL: Accident on July 30, 2021 at Merry, NE: serious 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 CO R66 · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a wire during a low-level aerial application flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA348 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