Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N797DM is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Garden City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 10, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11767
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AAD25D (octal 52551135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 10, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00336089
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lightner Gerald
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11480 S Beefland Rd
Garden City, KS 67846 - Co-owners
- Lightner Kyle
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N797DM, 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 Lightner Gerald, a co-owned, certificate issued August 6, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 10, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11767 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N797DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcelwee William Derr FISHER CLASSIC (serial CO125, cancelled August 6, 2002). 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 N797DM. 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