Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N71AF is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Desert Air AG INC, a corporation in Terreton, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 23, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12891
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A979BA (octal 52274672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 23, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01038643
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desert Air AG INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1583 N 1000 E
Terreton, ID 83450-5030
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 N71AF, 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 Desert Air AG INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2022, 13 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12891 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71AF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281050, cancelled November 29, 2016); Aero Commander 680W (serial 181431, cancelled May 17, 1993). 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 N71AF. 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 September 30, 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