Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N497SU is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southern Utah University, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11441
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A62BBC (octal 51425674)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 19, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00271199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Utah University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2410 Aviation Way
Cedar City, UT 84721-8312
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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 N497SU, 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 Southern Utah University, a government body, certificate issued March 5, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11441 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N497SU 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]
1 NTSB record under N497SU: Accident on July 25, 2022 at Cedar City, UT: 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain rotor rpm and airspeed and the flight instructor's inadequate remedial action to regain helicopter control during the straight-in autorotation which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA267 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