Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N194S is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nautidogs Aero LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 1, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 14279
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A17897 (octal 50274227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 1, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01282326
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nautidogs Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-1498
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 N194S, 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 Nautidogs Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 14, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 1, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N194S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 340 (serial 340-0167, cancelled August 15, 2013). 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 N194S: Accident on August 8, 1992 at Falmouth, KY: 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: Cessna 340 · operated under 091
THE IMPROPER DECISION BY THE NON-INSTRUMENT-RATED PILOT TO ATTEMPT VFR FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS RESULTING IN A LOSS OF AIRPLANE CONTROL AND SUBSEQUENT INADVERTENT SPIRAL AND COLLISION WITH THE GROUND. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL FLIGHT EXPERIENCE; THE PILOT'S LACK OF FLIGHT TIME IN THIS MAKE AND MODEL AIRPLANE; AND HIS OVERCONFIDENCE IN HIS OWN ABILITY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC92FA150 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