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Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N308SA is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sheyenne, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 16, 2021.
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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
- 14502
- 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 IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A33E9B (octal 50637233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 4, 2026
- 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 · November 16, 2021
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01349408
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Langley Richard
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2822 77Th Ave NE
Sheyenne, ND 58374-9188
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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 N308SA links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,939 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,176 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 IO-540-AE1A5 1,043 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Sheyenne, ND 15 aircraft registered in this town
- North Dakota 2,492 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
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 924 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Slide, out of position · 2012-04-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2012-04-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 2012-03-30
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The public federal record on N308SA, 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 Langley Richard, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 16, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14502 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N308SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-3Y0 (serial 23498, cancelled July 16, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N308SA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data