Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N3179A 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 Valley Center, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4100
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-J2A · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A36466 (octal 50662146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 30, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00304869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Esslinger Jamie
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 28308 Wilkes Rd
Valley Center, CA 92082-6303
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3179A, 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 Esslinger Jamie, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 30, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3179A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 3745, cancelled March 21, 1996); Cessna 170B (serial 25823, cancelled March 29, 1956). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3179A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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