Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N247DB is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lewiston, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 3, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10086
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A24A4D (octal 50445115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 9, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · August 3, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00030099
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pope Jim
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 741 Mooney Ln
Lewiston, ID 83501-6250
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.
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The public federal record on N247DB, 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 Pope Jim, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 3, 2016, 13 years after the 2003 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N247DB 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 N247DB: Accident on August 12, 2016 at Gunnison, UT: 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 Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 137
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR16LA165 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