Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N8042B is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Summerskyz INC, a corporation in Saint Joseph, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1110
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2C · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- AAF359 (octal 52571531)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 4, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00794551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summerskyz INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2040 County Road 2300 N
Saint Joseph, IL 61873-9551
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8042B, 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 Summerskyz INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 31, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8042B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 29842, cancelled August 12, 1974); Piper PA-18-150 (serial 185688, cancelled date not given). 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 N8042B: Accident on January 18, 2017 at Champaign, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 3, 1984 at Oak Grove, WI: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 R22 · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to arrest the descent rate during the practice autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA112 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84FA376 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