Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N196DM is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Benitez Aviation INC, a corporation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11329
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A17ECC (octal 50277314)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 29, 2006
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00252449
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benitez Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Prfbo-1 Muelle Panamericano
Rampa Norte Hangar A Isla Grande
San Juan, PR 00907
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N196DM, 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 Benitez Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196DM 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]
1 NTSB record under N196DM: Accident on March 15, 2007 at Miami, FL: 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 R-44-II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain sufficient rotor rpm during an autorotative landing, which resulted in a hard landing and separation of the tailboom.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data