Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA
N8490D is a Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Little Big Horn CO, a corporation in Prescott, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2004 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 ALPHA · all R22 ALPHAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0403
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- ABA3A4 (octal 52721644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2004
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 18, 1984
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00981813
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Little Big Horn CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6565 Crystal Ln
Prescott, AZ 86301-6132
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
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The public federal record on N8490D, 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 Little Big Horn CO, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2004, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0403 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8490D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 22-5717, cancelled May 10, 1974). 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 N8490D: Accident on June 9, 1985 at Port Orchard, WA: 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 R22 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA85LA129 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