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Light utility and trainer helicopter
Robinson R22 is a light utility and trainer helicopter. It was built by Robinson Helicopter Company.
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Light utility and trainer helicopter
Robinson Helicopter Company
Frank D. Robinson
In production
over 4,800 (2019)
1979–present
1979
1975
Robinson R44
1/2
1/0
28 ft 8 in (8.74 m)
8 ft 11 in (2.72 m)
880 lb (399 kg)
1,370 lb (621 kg)
Main tank total capacity: 16.9 US gal (14 imp gal; 64 L) Optional auxiliary tank total capacity: 10.9 US gal (9 imp gal; 41 L)
16.9 US gal (14 imp gal; 64 L)
10.9 US gal (9 imp gal; 41 L)
1 × Lycoming O-320-A2B or -A2C 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 124 hp (92 kW)
25 ft 2 in (7.67 m)
497 sq ft (46.2 m 2 )
3 ft 6 in (1.1 m)
- NACA 63-015
96 kn (110 mph, 178 km/h)
102 kn (117 mph, 189 km/h)
209 nmi (241 mi, 387 km)
14,000 ft (4,300 m)
1,200 ft/min (6.1 m/s)
2.61 lb/sq ft (12.7 kg/m 2 )
0.095 hp/lb (0.156 kW/kg)
8–10 gal/h (7–8 imp gal/h; 30–38 L/h)
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Robinson R22 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Army exact named equipment holdings: R-22. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: HELICOPTERS / Light. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Reported count for Robinson R22 · R22. Service scope: Dominican Air Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 4. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2023), not the article revision. 2023 cited publication year. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Reported count for Robinson R22 · R22. Service scope: Dominican Air Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 4. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2023), not the article revision. 2023 cited publication year. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.