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Robinson Helicopter R44
N48CD is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky Helicopters INC, a corporation in Desoto, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 13, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R44 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 30006
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A5E676 (octal 51363166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 13, 2016
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01226442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 150 e Danieldale Rd
Desoto, TX 75115-2401
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
Connections how N48CD links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,944 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,182 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540-F1B5 299 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Sky Helicopters INC 24 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate
- Desoto, TX 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Colonel Bobby Waddle/Desoto Heliport · 73T
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R44 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R44 1,407 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R44 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-F1B5 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-F1B5 378 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N48CD, 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 Sky Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 13, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48CD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Powrachute PEGASUS (serial 239PEG, cancelled February 7, 2011). 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 N48CD: Accident on October 5, 1990 at Wixom, MI: 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: Aerospatiale AS350B · operated under PUBU
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data