Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N74868 is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sheep Mountain Air LLC, an LLC in Sutton, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11038
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA138D (octal 52411615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 6, 2006
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00227189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sheep Mountain Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 17701 W Glenn Hwy
Sutton, AK 99674-8113
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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 N74868, 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 Sheep Mountain Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74868 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 N74868: Accident on February 11, 2024 at Glacier View, AK: 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
A sudden stoppage of the tail rotor for unknown reasons, which resulted in the tortional overload failure of the tail rotor driveshaft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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