Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N442VB is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Hicks Seal Coating & Striping LLC, an LLC in Bell, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 5, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 14296
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A553E8 (octal 51251750)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 5, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01287145
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hicks Seal Coating & Striping LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6758 SW County Road 344
Bell, FL 32619-1803
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 N442VB, 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 Hicks Seal Coating & Striping LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 27, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 5, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14296 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N442VB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 (serial 0846, cancelled March 20, 2001). 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 N442VB: Accident on December 31, 2021 at Bronson, FL: fatal, destroyed (4 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
A loss of control due to spatial disorientation as a result of the noninstrument-rated pilot’s improper decision to attempt a visual flight rules flight at night into an area of known reduced visibility due to fog.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22FA098 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