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Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N434DV is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Classic Management of Lafayette LLC, an LLC in Youngsville, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 25, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 10:11 pm.
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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 aluminiumA 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
- 14549
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A53259 (octal 51231131)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 25, 2022
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01360796
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Classic Management of Lafayette LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 101 Estates Ln
Youngsville, LA 70592-5268
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.
Connections how N434DV links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,944 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,182 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 1,044 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Classic Management of Lafayette LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Youngsville, LA 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R44 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R44 1,407 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R44 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 924 reports since 1995
- Where N434DV is now · Last seen Thursday at 10:11 pm.
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The public federal record on N434DV, 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 Classic Management of Lafayette LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 8, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 25, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14549 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N434DV 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N434DV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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