Robinson Helicopter R44
N74RG is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rio Grande Helicopters INC, a corporation in Laredo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 7, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2453
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A9F1AF (octal 52370657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 7, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01233022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rio Grande Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1827
Laredo, TX 78044-1827
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N74RG, 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 Rio Grande Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 3, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 7, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74RG 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N74RG. 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 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