Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N494SH is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ihde Investments LP, a partnership in Red Oak, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10878
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A6208C (octal 51420214)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 19, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00189679
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ihde Investments LP
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 1745 Stainback Rd
Red Oak, TX 75154-3207
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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 N494SH, 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 Ihde Investments LP, a partnership, certificate issued September 19, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10878 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N494SH 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]
2 NTSB records under N494SH: Accident on March 7, 2023 at Port O'Connor, TX: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on February 14, 2014 at Bonham, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 · operated under 091
The pilot’s initiation of the visual flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation and a subsequent loss of helicopter control. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s flicker vertigo during the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23FA125 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate recovery from a loss of tail rotor effectiveness during a low altitude downwind hover in a gusty wind condition resulting in the helicopter contacting the ground and rolling over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14CA142 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