Robinson Helicopter R44
N8361X is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Busy Bee Helicopter LLC, an LLC in Paulding, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 5, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0431
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AB7135 (octal 52670465)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 5, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00757041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Busy Bee Helicopter LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9275 Road 98
Paulding, OH 45879-9167
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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 N8361X, 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 Busy Bee Helicopter LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 5, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0431 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8361X 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 N8361X: Accident on September 3, 2009 at Torrance, CA: 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
A main rotor overspeed due to the pilot’s failure to maintain rotor RPM within allowable limits during a practice autorotation.
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- 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