Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N153LA is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Carolina Mobile Storage LLC, an LLC in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 21, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 13422
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A0D64F (octal 50153117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 21, 2013
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01111768
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carolina Mobile Storage LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 980 Crestwood Dr
Prestonsburg, KY 41653-8040
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N153LA, 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 Carolina Mobile Storage LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 8, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 21, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13422 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N153LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company 58 (serial TH-1879, cancelled March 17, 2010). 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 N153LA: Accident on September 23, 2024 at Ravenel, SC: no 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 Company R44 II · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from terrain, which resulted in the right skid contacting the ground and a subsequent rollover.
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