Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N445JS is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to AG Ranch Services LLC, an LLC in Lewistown, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 12, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 13278
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A55E09 (octal 51257011)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 12, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01089130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- AG Ranch Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4494 Grinde Rd
Lewistown, MT 59457-8042
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.
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The public federal record on N445JS, 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 AG Ranch Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 26, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 2023, 11 years after the 2012 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N445JS 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 N445JS: Accident on April 17, 2026 at Mount Blanco, TX: minor 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 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain proper main rotor rpm during a low-level turn, which resulted in the main rotor rpm drooping, a loss of control at an altitude too low for recovery, and a subsequent impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA168 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