Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N20LA is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft (a helicopter or multicopter). The FAA's model table marks this aircraft as electric, but its engine record is a Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5, a conventional engine, so this site does not count it as electric. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pet Care Centers Of America LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11699
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Electric, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A190A5 (octal 50310245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00328809
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pet Care Centers Of America LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 55 W 14Th St Ste 101
Helena, MT 59601-3387
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N20LA, 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 Pet Care Centers Of America LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 30, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11699 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20LA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287205057, cancelled October 5, 1995). 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 N20LA: Accident on April 30, 1995 at Louisa, VA: 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: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
the non-instrument rated private pilot's continued VFR flight into IMC and failure to maintain adequate altitude/clearance from terrain/obstacles. Related factors were the pilot's lack of total experience in IMC operations, his failure to obtain a preflight weather briefing, and the fog and low ceiling.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO95FA048 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