Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N744AK is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Express Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 24, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AA0170 (octal 52400560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 24, 2003
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00010279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Express Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12615 Jones Rd Ste 203
Houston, TX 77070-4806
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N744AK, 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 Express Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 24, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N744AK according to the deregistered file. [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 N744AK: Accident on July 29, 2018 at Bettles, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R44 · operated under PUBU
Maintenance personnel's application of insufficient preload on the attachment hardware for the idler gear shaft during engine overhaul, which resulted in the dismounting of the idler gear shaft assembly due to wear and deformation and the subsequent total loss of engine power. Contributing to the accident was a mechanic's failure to identify metallic particles contained in the oil filter element at the most recent 100-hour inspection.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC18LA058 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data