Robinson Helicopter R22
N981SL is a Robinson Helicopter R22, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rotor Technologies INC, a non-citizen corporation in Nashua, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, research and development; unmanned aircraft, crew training, dated November 30, 2023. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 · all R22s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2871
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ADB076 (octal 53330166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, research and development; Unmanned aircraft, crew training · November 30, 2023
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00723726
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rotor Technologies INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 10 University Dr
Nashua, NH 03063
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 1
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The public federal record on N981SL, 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 Rotor Technologies INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued September 1, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 30, 2023, 25 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2871 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N981SL according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N981SL. 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 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