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Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N229AC is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Victor Aviation Service INC, a corporation in Palo Alto, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 1:10 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R44 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 13319
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A20273 (octal 50401163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01108999
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Victor Aviation Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2415 Embarcadero Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303-3314
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
Connections how N229AC links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,938 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,177 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Victor Aviation Service INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Palo Alto, CA 185 aircraft registered in this town
- Palo Alto Airport · PAO
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R44 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R44 1,407 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R44 110 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Compressor Wheel, cracked · 2013-07-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, cracked · 2006-10-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar, cracked · 2006-05-24
- Where N229AC is now · Last seen October 16 at 1:10 pm.
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The public federal record on N229AC, 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 Victor Aviation Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13319 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N229AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Erickson S64E (serial 64018, cancelled November 29, 2019). 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 N229AC: Accident on June 25, 2010 at Borneo Island: fatal, substantial damage (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: Erickson S64E · operated under NUSN
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data