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N161SU

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

Valid Utah

N161SU is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southern Utah University, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 9, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
Serial number
14731
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A0F708 (octal 50173410)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 8, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 8, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 9, 2024
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01437281

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Utah University
Type
Government
Address
2410 Aviation Way
Cedar City, UT 84721-8312

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N161SU, 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 Southern Utah University, a government body, certificate issued May 8, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 9, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14731 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N161SU according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N161SU. 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 August 27, 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