Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N422DX is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Merten Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Holtville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 13, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12699
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A5036E (octal 51201556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 13, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01028860
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merten Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 281
Holtville, CA 92250-0281
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 N422DX, 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 Merten Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 3, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 13, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12699 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N422DX 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 N422DX: Accident on December 6, 2023 at Calexico, CA: 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 Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from power lines during an aerial application flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA092 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