Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N40238 is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to Blue Ridge Community College, a government body in Weyers Cave, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated November 7, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1474
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4B6F1 (octal 51133361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 31, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertising · November 7, 1995
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00815061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Ridge Community College
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1 College Ln
Weyers Cave, VA 24486-2205
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N40238, 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 Blue Ridge Community College, a government body, certificate issued May 31, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1474 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40238 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raven S55A (serial S55A-837, cancelled May 4, 2015). 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 N40238: Accident on July 15, 1984 at Lakeville, NY: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Raven S55A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FFJ03 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