Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N344AK is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Chavi LLC, an LLC in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 14, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12166
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A3CC34 (octal 50746064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 14, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00459009
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chavi LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5264 Ranch Road 2721
Fredericksburg, TX 78624-5748
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.
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The public federal record on N344AK, 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 Chavi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 14, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N344AK 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 N344AK: Accident on May 16, 2002 at Cantwell, AK: 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 R-44 · operated under PUBU
A failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain adequate main rotor rpm during an out-of-ground-effect hover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC02TA035 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