Robinson Helicopter R44 ASTRO
N18FH is a Robinson Helicopter R44 ASTRO, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Paratus Air INC, a corporation in Auburn, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 ASTRO · all R44 ASTROs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0651
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A13ED8 (octal 50237330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 20, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00825832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paratus Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2636 County Road 60
Auburn, IN 46706-6029
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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 N18FH, 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 Paratus Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 18, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0651 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18FH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2599, cancelled December 15, 2003). 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 N18FH: Accident on August 21, 1997 at Dillingham, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Bell BH-206B · operated under 135
The pilot's intentional VFR flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). Factors associated with the accident are the pilot's failure to activate the cabin heating system, the lack of an operable windshield defogger, the pilot's overconfidence in his ability, pressure induced by the passengers to initiate the flight, and pressure induced by the FAA upon their employees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97GA126 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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