Robinson Helicopter R22 ALPHA
N8491A 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 Aarow Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 20, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 ALPHA · all R22 ALPHAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0404
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- ABA3C4 (octal 52721704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 20, 1984
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00971813
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aarow Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3824 Cedar Springs Rd # 801-9127
Dallas, TX 75219-4136
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8491A, 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 Aarow Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 9, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 20, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0404 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8491A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-1911, cancelled June 21, 1957). 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 N8491A: Accident on February 10, 1991 at Piru, CA: 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 R22A · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE CFI TO MAINTAIN MAIN ROTOR RPM DURING A DEMONSTRATED AUTOROTATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA097 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