{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-12-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-01-26","city":"THE WOODLANDS","country_code":"US","county_code":"339","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":"2033-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-01-26","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER CO","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640130","mode_s_code":"51574434","mode_s_hex":"A6F91C","model":"R66","n_number":"N5488H","name":"HIGGINS LEASING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Fort Worth","damage":"UNK","date":"2026-05-26","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN26LA203","probable_cause":null,"registration":"N5488H","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on May 26, 2026 at Fort Worth, TX: serious injuries, damage not recorded.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5488H is a Robinson Helicopter R66, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. 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 January 26, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Higgins Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 26, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1639 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5488H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL (serial 18-79, cancelled September 15, 2009). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N5488H: Accident on May 26, 2026 at Fort Worth, TX: serious injuries, damage not recorded. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":5,"serial_number":"1639","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 7327","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01522485","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5488H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"773877327"}