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Robinson Helicopter R22
N231TM is a Robinson Helicopter R22, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Casablanca Helicopter LLC, an LLC in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 · all R22s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R22 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2317M
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2C · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A20DEC (octal 50406754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 11, 2010
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01026342
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Casablanca Helicopter LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6 Sheffield Rd Hngr 1
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971-1400
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
Connections how N231TM links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R22 817 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,182 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-B2C 55 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Type certificate H10WE · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Casablanca Helicopter LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Rehoboth Beach, DE 59 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R22 47 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R22 576 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R22 90 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-B2C 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-B2C 171 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N231TM.json.
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The public federal record on N231TM, 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 Casablanca Helicopter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 1, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 11, 2010, 17 years after the 1993 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 2317M for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N231TM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 221179, cancelled January 5, 1989). 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 N231TM: Accident on November 1, 2012 at Alexander City, AL: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R22 · operated under 091
The pilot’s delayed decision to initiate an autorotation and her subsequent improper conduct of the autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing, after the helicopter started vibrating for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examinations revealed no anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data