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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30006
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A5E676 (octal 51363166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 13, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01226442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91TL#01 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