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N144BW

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

Valid Montana

N144BW is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skyward Leasing LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 11, 2007. 2 documents are on file: loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
Serial number
12076
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A0B1BA (octal 50130672)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 15, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 15, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 11, 2007
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00448379

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skyward Leasing LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635

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 2

2026-09-18Loan release
2026-09-18Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1995-07-20Ward William F AMATEUR BUILT · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N144BW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Skyward Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 15, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 11, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N144BW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ward William F AMATEUR BUILT (serial 1, cancelled July 20, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Loan release (September 18, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 18, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N144BW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data