Robinson Helicopter R44
N811S is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smith Helicopters INC, a corporation in Cotulla, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30072
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540 SERIES · 235 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- AB0EA3 (octal 52607243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 23, 2020
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01323706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 398
Cotulla, TX 78014-0398
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N811S, 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 Smith Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 8, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 23, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N811S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65 (serial LC-27, cancelled November 19, 2014). 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 N811S: Accident on January 10, 2023 at Fowlerton, TX: minor 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 R44 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance with trees, which resulted in an uncontrollable spin due to tail rotor damage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA086 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