Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N4450W is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dripping Springs, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12911
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A55F9D (octal 51257635)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 6, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01041708
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Varnell Chad W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 700 Plant Lady Ln
Dripping Springs, TX 78620-4531
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4450W, 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 Varnell Chad W, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12911 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4450W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-B55 (T42A) (serial TC-1673, cancelled December 2, 2005). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4450W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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