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N854WS, a Robinson Helicopter R44 II
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N854WS

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N854WS is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mn Helicopters INC, a corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 29, 2005.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Complete Helicopters INC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 2:11 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R44 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
10844
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2005
Transponder code
ABB839 (octal 52734071)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 25, 2010
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 29, 2005
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00184289

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mn Helicopters INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
8891 Airport Rd E13
Minneapolis, MN 55449
Learn to fly in N854WS with Mn Helicopters INC:
Charter N854WS with Complete Helicopters INC.:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N854WS links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Lycoming IO-540 series 4,219 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
  • Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
Owner
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N854WS.json.

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The public federal record on N854WS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mn Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 25, 2010, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 29, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10844 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N854WS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N854WS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data