Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N553JB is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Institute INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 13071
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A70B5A (octal 51605532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 13, 2010
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01061114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Institute INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 101 Aviator Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76179-5412
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N553JB, 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 Helicopter Institute INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 11, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N553JB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Airbus A320-232 (serial 1896, cancelled May 28, 2008). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N553JB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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