Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N8072X is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Hillsboro Aero Academy LLC, an LLC in Hillsboro, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1493
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AAFE92 (octal 52577222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 6, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00373886
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hillsboro Aero Academy LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3565 NE Cornell Rd
Hillsboro, OR 97124-6374
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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 N8072X, 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 Hillsboro Aero Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 10, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 6, 1999, 9 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 1493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8072X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-236 (serial 287911308, cancelled October 4, 1995). 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 N8072X: Accident on August 3, 1995 at Rehoboth, MA: fatal, destroyed (1 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-236 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent flight into hazardous weather, which subsequently resulted in exceeding the design stress limits of the airplane and an in-flight breakup. Factors relating to the accident were: embedded thunderstorms, turbulence, and failure of the National Weather Service to issue a Convective SIGMET or a Center Weather Advisory.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95FA181 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