Robinson Helicopter R44
N144CD is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Little Gator Aviation INC, a corporation in Fairfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 5, 2020. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0602
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A0B1C2 (octal 50130702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 5, 2020
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00335772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Little Gator Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2335 Newlands Rd
Fairfield, NC 27826-9664
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N144CD, 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 Little Gator Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 2020, 21 years after the 1999 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 0602 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N144CD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR20 (serial 1034, cancelled January 21, 2010). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 10, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N144CD: Accident on June 8, 2026 at Mayesville, SC: serious 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: Robinson Helicopter R44 · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to remain clear of a power line during an aerial application flight.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data