Robinson Helicopter R22
N444CR is a Robinson Helicopter R22, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Utah State University, a government body in Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 27, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R22 · all R22s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4578
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-J2A · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A559BB (octal 51254673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 27, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01099356
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2500 N 900 W
Logan, UT 84321-1709
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N444CR, 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 Utah State University, a government body, certificate issued December 4, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 27, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4578 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N444CR was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dassault-Breguet FALCON 10 (serial 45, cancelled January 19, 2007); Bell 206L (serial 45325, cancelled April 1, 1996). 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 N444CR: Accident on August 8, 1993 at Tusayan, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Bell 206L1 · operated under 135
FAILURE OF THE PILOT OF N444CR TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE MAIN ROTOR CLEARANCE FROM N38903, AND THE OPERATOR'S FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE OR RECOMMENDED SAFE HELIPAD DIMENSIONS. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF VISUAL REFERENCE TO THE ROTATING BLADES OF THE PARKED HELICOPTER, N38903.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93FA316 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