Robinson Helicopter R44
N331ES is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chesapeake, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1067
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A399FB (octal 50714773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 4, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00953814
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jackson Paul D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4240 Portsmouth Blvd # 256
Chesapeake, VA 23321-2129
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N331ES, 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 Jackson Paul D, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2011, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 4, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N331ES 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 N331ES: Accident on March 15, 2025 at Danville, VA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 R44 · operated under 091
On March 15, 2025, about 1500 eastern daylight time, a Robinson R44 helicopter, N331ES, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Danville, Virginia. The pilot was fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. About 1438, the pilot completed a sightseeing flight and dropped the two passengers off at their home. According to one of the passengers, the pilot ended the flight early due to fog which restricted inflight visibility. The passenger provided a photograph (See Figure 1) that was captured during the sightseei…
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- 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