Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA
N921U is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tumbleweed Leasing CO INC, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2007 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 10, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R22 BETA · all R22 BETAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3566
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- ACC3A3 (octal 53141643)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2007
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 10, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00078789
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tumbleweed Leasing CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 619 N 2360 W
Salt Lake City, UT 84116-2957
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.
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The public federal record on N921U, 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 Tumbleweed Leasing CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2007, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 10, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3566 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N921U according to the deregistered file. [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 N921U: Accident on April 8, 2006 at Tooele, UT: minor 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 Beta · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter during the takeoff initial climb, which resulted in an in-flight collision with the ground. A contributing factor was the gusty wind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06CA072 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data