Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N42LF is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2026. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sodville INC, a corporation in Taft, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 14986
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A4FA46 (octal 51175106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 2, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 5, 2026
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01553795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sodville INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 163
Taft, TX 78390-0163
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N42LF, 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 Sodville INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 2, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 5, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14986 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42LF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fischer/Fischer WAGABOND (serial 42, cancelled December 2, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N42LF: Accident on September 30, 1991 at Rossville, TN: 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: Fischer WAGABOND · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER AS A RESULT OF CARBURETOR ICING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL91LA184 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