Robinson Helicopter R22 MARINER
N42WC is a Robinson Helicopter R22 MARINER, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to N42Wc LLC, an LLC in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 20, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 MARINER · all R22 MARINERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1531M
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A4FB3D (octal 51175475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 20, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00985061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N42Wc LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6 Sheffield Rd Hngr 1
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971-1400
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N42WC, 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 N42Wc LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 4, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 20, 1998, 8 years after the 1990 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1531M for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42WC according to the deregistered file. [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 N42WC: Accident on July 27, 2022 at Hollywood, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 7, 1994 at Portland, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 Company R22 MARINER · operated under 091
Inadequate maintenance of the helicopter’s tail rotor blades, which resulted in a failure of the tail rotor drive system, and an inflight loss of yaw control from which the flight instructor was unable to recover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA340 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22M · operated under 091
TAIL ROTOR GEARBOX FAILURE DUE TO INADEQUATE ASSEMBLY AND INSPECTION PROCEDURES BY THE MANUFACTURER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA94LA171 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data