Robinson Helicopter R22
N251BD is a Robinson Helicopter R22, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hedley, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 10, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 · all R22s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4045
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-J2A · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A25B52 (octal 50455522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 10, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00236699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wheatly Andy
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3400 County Road 23
Hedley, TX 79237-3000
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N251BD, 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 Wheatly Andy, an individual, certificate issued June 22, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 10, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N251BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney Aircraft Corp. M20K (serial 25-0364, cancelled July 6, 2000). 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 N251BD: Accident on January 24, 2000 at Pendleton, OR: 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: Mooney M20K · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to adequately remove ice and snow from the airplane. A contributing factor was the pilot's inability to maintain control during climb due to degradation of the airplane's aerodynamic performance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA00FA039 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