Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N8320A is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 3, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2510
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AB6221 (octal 52661041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 3, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00215322
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mendez Leonel JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3818 Apollo Rd
Corpus Christi, TX 78413-1903
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 N8320A, 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 Mendez Leonel JR, an individual, certificate issued September 9, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 3, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2510 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8320A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201 (serial 28R8118048, cancelled April 1, 1988); Cessna 170B (serial 25172, cancelled February 16, 1971). 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]
3 NTSB records under N8320A: Accident on August 11, 2005 at Lantana, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 28, 1995 at Byron, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 1, 1986 at Caldwell, NJ: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R22 Beta · operated under 091
The CFI's delayed remedial action to recover from a practice autorotation with planned power recovery resulting in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA05LA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22B · operated under 091
the unsuitable terrain selected by the pilots.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA147 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28RT-201 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC87LA001 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