Robinson Helicopter R44
N831VA is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Travel Systems LLC, an LLC in Boerne, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 16, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 13477
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- AB5DED (octal 52656755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · July 16, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01118896
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Travel Systems LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 227 Augusta
Boerne, TX 78006-6156
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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 N831VA, 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 Travel Systems LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 14, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 2019, 6 years after the 2013 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13477 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N831VA 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 N831VA: Accident on September 19, 2025 at Decatur, TX: 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 R44 · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of control during an off-airport, pinnacle landing, and the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the instructional flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA389 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
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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