Robinson Helicopter R44
N44EK is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 7, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0690
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A548B2 (octal 51244262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2020
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 7, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00566082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bas Part Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 575 Ed Beegles Ln
Greeley, CO 80631
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 N44EK, 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 Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0690 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N44EK 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]
3 NTSB records under N44EK: Accident on February 24, 2017 at Chatham, NJ: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 18, 2005 at Linden, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 3, 2002 at Atlantic City, NJ: no 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson Helicopter R44 · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel's improper installation and inspection of the crankshaft gear bolt during major overhaul, which resulted in the crankshaft gear disengaging from the accessory gears of the engine and a subsequent loss of power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA116 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R44 · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC06LA035 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-44 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare during approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC02LA157 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data