Robinson Helicopter R44
N50BA is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Branning Aviation LLC, an LLC in Orofino, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1482
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540F1 SERIE · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A637B1 (octal 51433661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 2, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00173289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Branning Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 2226
Orofino, ID 83544-2226
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 N50BA, 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 Branning Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 2, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1482 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 500-S (serial 3299, cancelled February 1, 2007). 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 N50BA: Accident on January 6, 1999 at Plymouth, IN: no 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: Rockwell 500-S · operated under 135
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane while landing. Factors associated with the accident were the tailwind condition and the pilot landing in the wrong direction.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA059 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