Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N442GS is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fly-Right Aviation LLC, an LLC in Anderson, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12522
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A552B2 (octal 51251262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01013628
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fly-Right Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3672 Abbeville Hwy
Anderson, SC 29624-5500
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 N442GS, 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 Fly-Right Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 15, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12522 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N442GS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 ASTRO (serial 0683, cancelled August 4, 2006). 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 N442GS: Accident on May 13, 2006 at East Troy, WI: 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 R44 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to calculate the weight and balance of the helicopter prior to flight, his failure to recognize and correct the forward center of gravity condition and his failure to abort the takeoff. A factors was the pilot's improper decision to conduct the flight without seatbelts available for all passengers.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06FA128 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