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N4043P

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMontana

N4043P is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Polar Star CORP, a corporation in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 2018.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Helistream Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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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 aluminium
A 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
14214
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
2018
Transponder code
A4BE4C (octal 51137114)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 26, 2018
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
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 · May 31, 2018
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01277875

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Polar Star CORP
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 9677
Kalispell, MT 59904-2677
Charter N4043P with Helistream Inc.:

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

2011-04-27Piper PA-23-160 · Registration expired

Connections how N4043P links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 1,044 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
  • Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
Owner
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4043P.json.

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The public federal record on N4043P, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Polar Star CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 26, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 31, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14214 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4043P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-160 (serial 23-1520, cancelled April 27, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4043P: Accident on July 12, 2007 at Enterprise, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC07LA166Accident on July 12, 2007 at Enterprise, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 23-1520

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-23-160 · operated under 091

The designated examiner's improper decision to simulate an engine failure on short final approach, in conjunction with a short-field landing maneuver, and his inadequate remedial action. Contributing to the accident was the private pilot's inadvertent feathering of the left propeller.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data