Robinson Helicopter R44
N144WB is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Universal Aviators Academy INC, a corporation in El Monte, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s 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
- 0545
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A0B382 (octal 50131602)
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 30, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 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 · December 10, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00423856
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Universal Aviators Academy 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
- 4233 Santa Anita Ave Ste 13
El Monte, CA 91731-1670
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N144WB links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,948 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,188 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 O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Universal Aviators Academy INC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- El Monte, CA 36 aircraft registered in this town
- San Gabriel Valley Airport · EMT
- California 28,134 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 O-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N144WB, 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 Universal Aviators Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 10, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0545 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N144WB according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N144WB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
