Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N3104U is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crown Point, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 30, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4061
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-J2A · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A349C8 (octal 50644710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 17, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 30, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00269839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 312 N Park St
Crown Point, IN 46307-3429
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3104U, 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 Nelson Christopher, an individual, certificate issued November 17, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 30, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3104U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Nanchang China CJ-6A (serial 1432049, cancelled May 15, 1996); Ayres Corporation S2R-T15 (serial T15027, cancelled November 27, 1990). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3104U: Accident on December 21, 2024 at Springfield, MO: minor injuries, destroyed. Accident on December 28, 1995 at Planterville, SC: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain control of the helicopter while turning on the blower fan switch after landing that resulted in a dynamic rollover sequence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Nanchang CHINA CJ6A · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain sufficient altitude or clearance from trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
