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Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N888GC is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bachmann Aviation LLC, an LLC in Marshall, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R22 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3857
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AC3C26 (octal 53036046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 24, 2005
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00167129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bachmann Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7596 Leeds Manor Rd
Marshall, VA 20115-2618
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
Connections how N888GC links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R22 816 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,176 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 series 1,067 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate H10WE · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Bachmann Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Marshall, VA 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R22 47 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R22 576 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R22 90 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360 series 425 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N888GC, 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 Bachmann Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N888GC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2523, cancelled August 17, 1990). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N888GC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data