Robinson R22 — U.S. Fleet History Data
Helicopter · 794 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1946–2026
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Robinson R22 airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 62 — Main Rotor : 26 reports
- 63 — Main Rotor Drive : 16 reports
- 85 — Reciprocating Engine : 11 reports
- 74 — Ignition : 7 reports
- 51 — Structures : 3 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2024-23-01 · effective 2025-01-07 — several reports of failed clutch actuators and failed rivets attaching the belt tension clutch actuator brackets (bracket) to the fan scroll housing
- AD 2024-20-03 · effective 2024-11-29 — reports of engine governor failure, which was a result of water intrusion inside of the governor controller
- AD 2024-04-02 (recurring) · effective 2024-04-02 — reports of helicopters losing a tail rotor blade (TRB) tip cap
- AD 2022-12-08 · effective 2022-06-29 — reports of intermittent or abnormal operation of the engine revolutions per minute (RPM) governor (governor)
- AD 2014-23-16 (recurring) · effective 2015-01-09 — inspecting each blade at the skin-to-spar line for debonding, corrosion, a separation, a gap, or a dent and replacing any damaged blade with an airworthy blade
ADs published since 1995 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.
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