Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N442DR is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Changing Horizons LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10428
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A55266 (octal 51251146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 15, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00109829
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Changing Horizons LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5480 Peaks View Dr
Helena, MT 59602-8864
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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 N442DR, 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 Changing Horizons LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 28, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N442DR 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 N442DR: Accident on July 6, 2017 at Ronan, MT: serious 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 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which resulted in a loss of tail rotor effectiveness during a low-altitude orbiting maneuver and a subsequent hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR17LA143 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data