Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N153JR is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rs Helicopters INC, a corporation in Lake Wales, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3753
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Transponder code
- A0D62C (octal 50153054)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 4, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00133749
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rs Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 450 S Airport Rd
Lake Wales, FL 33859-8170
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N153JR, 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 Rs Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 2023, 70 years after the 1953 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 3753 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N153JR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 340 (serial 117, cancelled October 14, 2014). 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 N153JR: Accident on March 15, 2012 at San Juan, PR: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Convair 440 - NO SERIES · operated under 125
the flight crew's failure to maintain adequate airspeed after shutting down the right engine due to an in-flight fire in one of the right augmentors. The failure to maintain airspeed resulted in either an aerodynamic stall or a loss of directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA12FA051 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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data