Florida Helicopter Corp Inc HUMMINGBIRD 260L
N98WB is a Florida Helicopter Corp Inc HUMMINGBIRD 260L, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Xtango3 LLC, an LLC in Reston, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Florida Helicopter Corp Inc
- Model
- HUMMINGBIRD 260L
- Serial number
- 622
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD 260L
- Transponder code
- ADAAC1 (octal 53325301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 1, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01074011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Xtango3 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1503 N Village Rd
Reston, VA 20194-1249
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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 N98WB, 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 Xtango3 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 622 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98WB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bertrand Wf/Warner Dc THORP T-18 (serial 524, cancelled August 12, 2004). 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 N98WB: Accident on February 14, 2004 at Crescent City, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Bertrand/Warner Thorp T-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's continued VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions, and his failure to maintain terrain clearance. Factors associated with the accident were fog and low ceilings.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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