{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1985-01-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1999-08-31","city":"BRACKETTVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"271","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640104","mode_s_code":"52736500","mode_s_hex":"ABBD40","model":"R22 ALPHA","n_number":"N8557H","name":"LLOYD DAVIS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MANASSAS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1989-08-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"BFO89LA071","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N8557H","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on August 17, 1989 at Manassas, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lloyd Davis INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 1999, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 18, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0460 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","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 N8557H: Accident on August 17, 1989 at Manassas, VA: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"0460","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 527","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00432204","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8557H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1985,"zip":"788320527"}