{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1989-08-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-07-31","city":"SAINT JOSEPH","country_code":"US","county_code":"019","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42139","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320-B2C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640110","mode_s_code":"52571531","mode_s_hex":"AAF359","model":"R22 BETA","n_number":"N8042B","name":"SUMMERSKYZ INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Champaign","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-01-18","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"GAA17CA112","probable_cause":"The flight instructor\u2019s failure to arrest the descent rate during the practice autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N8042B","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on January 18, 2017 at Champaign, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"OAK GROVE","damage":"DEST","date":"1984-09-03","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI84FA376","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8042B","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on September 3, 1984 at Oak Grove, WI: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8042B is a Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Summerskyz INC, a corporation in Saint Joseph, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1989.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Summerskyz INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 31, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 4, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1110 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8042B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 29842, cancelled August 12, 1974); Piper PA-18-150 (serial 185688, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N8042B: Accident on January 18, 2017 at Champaign, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 3, 1984 at Oak Grove, WI: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"1110","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2040 COUNTY ROAD 2300 N","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00794551","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8042B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"618739551"}