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N488AC

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

Valid Tennessee

N488AC is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Austin Peay State University, a government body in Clarksville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 20, 2015. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
Serial number
13791
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A60654 (octal 51403124)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 19, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 20, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 20, 2015
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01164019

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Austin Peay State University
Type
Government
Address
220 Outlaw Field Rd
Clarksville, TN 37042

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-25Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N488AC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Austin Peay State University, a government body, certificate issued August 19, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 20, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13791 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N488AC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 25, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N488AC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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