Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N28WF is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lift Air LLC, an LLC in Shortsville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 24, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 13046
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A2CD9C (octal 50546634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 24, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01058606
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lift Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5208 Shortsville Rd
Shortsville, NY 14548-9729
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N28WF, 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 Lift Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 13, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 2023, 13 years after the 2010 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 13046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28WF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177 (serial 17700876, cancelled May 21, 2014). 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 N28WF: Accident on May 8, 2012 at Hanksville, UT: minor 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: Cessna 177A · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed while maneuvering at a low altitude in high density altitude conditions, which resulted in the airplane’s inability to climb or maintain clearance from terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA198 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