Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N26KL is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 8, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12024
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A27D90 (octal 50476620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · July 8, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01555445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lepping Kurt
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 498
Hot Springs, MT 59845-0498
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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 N26KL, 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 Lepping Kurt, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 8, 2026, 19 years after the 2007 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 12024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26KL 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 N26KL: Accident on August 2, 2026 at Bennett, IA: 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
On August 2, 2026, about 1318 central daylight time, a Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II helicopter, N26KL, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Bennett, Iowa. The pilot was not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 137 agricultural flight. The pilot reported that as the helicopter passed over a tree line he felt a vibration in the airframe and when the vibration increased he decided to perform an autorotation into the next field. According to the pilot, the helicopter descended rapidly from about 20 ft above the gro…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA276 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data