Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N316AZ is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Heli Thrills LLC, an LLC in Wills Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10687
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A35D33 (octal 50656463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 18, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01398573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heli Thrills LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 605 Vz County Road 3412
Wills Point, TX 75169-9099
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 N316AZ, 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 Heli Thrills LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 8, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 2023, 18 years after the 2005 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 10687 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N316AZ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Tomschin Douglas J MINI-500 (serial 0456, cancelled November 17, 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 N316AZ: Accident on November 6, 1998 at Clinton, MN: 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: Tomschin MINI 500 · operated under 091
the non-pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the power lines. Factors contributing to this accident were the non-pilot's lack of total experience and the power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA026 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