{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-01-05","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"TORRANCE","country_code":"US","county_code":"037","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54232","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C300/A1","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2008-11-17","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640130","mode_s_code":"50513306","mode_s_hex":"A296C6","model":"R66","n_number":"N266RH","name":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Torrance","damage":"SUBS","date":"2016-02-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR16LA075","probable_cause":"A vibration of the helicopter, which resulted in an autorotation to soft terrain and subsequent impact of the tail boom with the main rotor. The reason for the vibration could not be determined because postaccident examination revealed no malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.","registration":"N266RH","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 23, 2016 at Torrance, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N266RH is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Robinson Helicopter CO, a corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated January 5, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Robinson Helicopter CO, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 5, 2026, 17 years after the 2009 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0002 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N266RH according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N266RH: Accident on February 23, 2016 at Torrance, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"0002","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2901 AIRPORT DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01019109","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N266RH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2009,"zip":"905056115"}