Robinson Helicopter R44
N7530C is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lake Superior Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1398
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540F1 SERIE · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA2789 (octal 52423611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 8, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00112439
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lake Superior Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4525 Airport Approach Rd
Duluth, MN 55811-1534
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7530C, 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 Lake Superior Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 17, 2020, expires September 30, 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 1398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7530C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Forney F-1 (serial 5645, cancelled March 4, 1997). 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 N7530C: Accident on December 22, 1996 at Middleburg, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Forney F-1 · operated under 091
VFR flight by the noninstrument-rated pilot into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which resulted in spatial disorientation and an uncontrolled descent into a wooded area. Factors relating to the accident were: failure of the pilot to obtain a preflight weather briefing, darkness, the adverse weather condition (fog and/or low ceiling), and the pilot's lack of instrument experience.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97FA043 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