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Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N120AB is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Hawaii Pacific Aviation INC, a corporation in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 15, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R44 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 10868
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A053B4 (octal 50051664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 15, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01297580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hawaii Pacific Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 73-310 Uu St
Kailua Kona, HI 96740-2650
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N120AB links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,939 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,176 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 1,043 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Hawaii Pacific Aviation INC 29 aircraft in the fleet
- Kailua Kona, HI 74 aircraft registered in this town
- Hawaii 695 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R44 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R44 1,407 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R44 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 924 reports since 1995
- Where N120AB is now · Last seen today at 9:34 am.
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The public federal record on N120AB, 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 Hawaii Pacific Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 15, 2019, 14 years after the 2005 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 10868 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120AB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 10910, cancelled July 16, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N120AB: Accident on November 13, 2007 at Ocala, FL: 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: Cessna 120 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain proper runway alignment during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data