Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N8350M is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vortex Leasing LLC, an LLC in Racine, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 28, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2665
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB6D51 (octal 52666521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 28, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00486421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vortex Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5108 Pinetree Cir
Racine, WI 53402-9580
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 N8350M, 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 Vortex Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 6, 2010, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 28, 1999, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2665 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8350M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A150K (serial A15000050, 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]
1 NTSB record under N8350M: Accident on January 21, 2024 at Kenosha, WI: serious 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 pilot’s failure to maintain control of the helicopter while landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA097 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