Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N7197Z is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aero Tech Academy INC, a non-citizen corporation in Redlands, California. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued September 26, 2016). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 16, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3249
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A9A0E1 (octal 52320341)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 16, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00923817
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aero Tech Academy INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 1745 Sessums Dr
Redlands, CA 92374-1910
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7197Z, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 16, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7197Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-3087, cancelled February 10, 1965). 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 N7197Z: Accident on May 20, 2011 at Lansing, IL: 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 Helicopter R22 BETA · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain control of the helicopter while hovering.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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