Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N4017L is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to Robinson Helicopter CO, a corporation in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4964
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4B3B0 (octal 51131660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01576143
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinson Helicopter CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2901 Airport Dr
Torrance, CA 90505-6115
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4017L, 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 Robinson Helicopter CO, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4964 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4017L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE (serial 16469, cancelled August 16, 2018); Raven S55A (serial S55A823, cancelled January 10, 1994). 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 N4017L: Accident on April 2, 2017 at Knoxville, TN: fatal, substantial damage (1 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: Buckeye Aviation DREAM MACHINE · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to maneuver the aircraft at low altitude, towards rising terrain, which resulted in an inflight collision with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17FA144 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