Robinson Helicopter R44
N7048C is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mn Helicopters INC, a corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0531
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A966DD (octal 52263335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 24, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00743896
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mn Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8891 Airport Rd E13 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55449
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7048C, 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 Mn Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 23, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0531 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7048C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cascade Aircraft Development CHANUTE (serial 1088001, cancelled March 16, 1992); North American SNJ-4 (serial 88-13629, cancelled January 19, 1971). 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 N7048C: Accident on August 30, 2022 at Beardsley, MN: 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 R44 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control during the approach to land that resulted in an excessive descent rate and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA404 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