Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N7196W is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sundance Aero LLC, an LLC in Mertzon, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3140
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A9A0BB (octal 52320273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 11, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00903685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sundance Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 325
Mertzon, TX 76941-0325
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 N7196W, 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 Sundance Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7196W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28 (serial 28-1007, cancelled June 10, 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]
1 NTSB record under N7196W: Accident on June 6, 2002 at North Las Vegas, NV: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R22 BETA · operated under 091
The dual student's improper autorotation and the flight instructor's inadequate supervision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02LA183 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