Robinson Helicopter R22
N712U is a Robinson Helicopter R22, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tumbleweed Leasing CO INC, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 24, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 · all R22s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3676
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A9853D (octal 52302475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 24, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00116519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tumbleweed Leasing CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 619 N 2360 W
Salt Lake City, UT 84116-2957
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N712U, 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 Tumbleweed Leasing CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 16, 2004, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 24, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3676 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N712U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild FH-227B (serial 557, cancelled October 9, 1968). 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 N712U: Accident on July 8, 2013 at Alta, UT: minor injuries, destroyed. Accident on June 18, 2007 at Park City, UT: 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 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's decision to follow a route over mountainous terrain in conditions that exceeded the helicopter’s ability to maintain terrain clearance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13LA315 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R22 Beta II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain rotor RPM during hover taxi. A contributing factor was the high density altitude weather condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA171 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