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N4238H

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

Valid Texas

N4238H 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 an individual in Texarkana, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 5, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
Serial number
12686
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2009
Transponder code
A50A3C (octal 51205074)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
September 25, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 5, 2009
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01024588

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Chandler Michael Shane
Type
Individual
Address
8133 W 7Th St Unit 2
Texarkana, TX 75501-1778

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1995-03-17Mooney M20J · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1970-05-20Piper PA-14 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4238H, 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 Chandler Michael Shane, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 5, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4238H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M20J (serial 240677, cancelled March 17, 1995); Piper PA-14 (serial 14-41, cancelled May 20, 1970). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4238H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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