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A Robinson R44, the same model family as N441HQ
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026
N441HQ

Robinson Helicopter R44

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N441HQ is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Spitzer Helicopter LLC, an LLC in Woodland Hills, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
Model
R44 · all R44s 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
1155
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
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A54F12 (octal 51247422)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 3, 2015
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00334047

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Spitzer Helicopter 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
5958 Rod Ave
Woodland Hills, CA 91367-1003

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 N441HQ links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Woodland Hills, CA 89 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 28,158 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N441HQ.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N441HQ, 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 Spitzer Helicopter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 3, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N441HQ according to the deregistered file. [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 N441HQ: Accident on December 31, 2024 at Galveston, TX: no 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

CEN25LA067Accident on December 31, 2024 at Galveston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson Helicopter R44 · operated under 091

The pilot’s failure to maintain terrain clearance during the takeoff from the helipad in high and gusting wind conditions, that resulted in the right skid extension embedding in the artificial turf, and a subsequent dynamic rollover sequence.

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 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data