Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N197BJ 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 Chavi LLC, an LLC in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 28, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 13471
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A1824E (octal 50301116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 28, 2013
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01117637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chavi LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5624 Henry Duecker Rd 2721
Fredericksburg, TX 78624
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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 N197BJ, 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 Chavi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 28, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197BJ 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N197BJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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