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Robinson Helicopter R44
N250TH is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University of North Dakota, a government body in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 27, 2018.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 12:05 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s 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
- 30038
- 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 · Lycoming 0-540F1 SERIE · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A2592F (octal 50454457)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 27, 2018
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01276649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University of North Dakota (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3980 Campus Rd Stop 9007
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007 - Co-owners
- John D Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
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 N250TH 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
- Lycoming O-540F1 SERIE 119 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- University Of North Dakota 89 aircraft in the fleet
- Grand Forks, ND 273 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Forks International · GFK
- North Dakota 2,491 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: Sensor, malfunctioned · 2019-11-21
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gauge, inaccurate · 2019-09-18
- Where N250TH is now · Last seen Monday at 12:05 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N250TH.json.
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The public federal record on N250TH, 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 University of North Dakota, a government body, certificate issued November 28, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 27, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N250TH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Helfrich-Leonard BEDE BD-5B (serial 1032, cancelled August 21, 2012). 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 N250TH: Accident on July 1, 1988 at Englewood, CO: 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: Helfrich-Leonard BD-5B · operated under 091
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