Robinson Helicopter R44
N57BA is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Helicrop LLC, an LLC in Menlo, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 14, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2688
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A74C2A (octal 51646052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 14, 2023
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01360790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicrop LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1069 Pinewood Ave
Menlo, IA 50164-8002
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 N57BA, 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 Helicrop LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 5, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 14, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12E (serial 2131, cancelled June 7, 2013). 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 N57BA: Accident on September 26, 1992 at Coachella, CA: 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: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE CLEARANCE FROM THE WIRES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA401 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