Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N86TJ 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 Signal Hill Air LLC, an LLC in Durham, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 4, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12017
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- ABCE30 (octal 52747060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 19, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · August 4, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01217391
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Signal Hill Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2026 Terry Rd
Durham, NC 27712-1257
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N86TJ, 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 Signal Hill Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 19, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 2022, 15 years after the 2007 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 12017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N86TJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Conrad Theodore J THORP T-18 (serial C-4602, cancelled January 31, 2011). 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 N86TJ: Accident on October 13, 2010 at Fredericksburg, 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: Conrad Theodore J THORP T-18 · operated under 091
The malfunction of the throttle clamp, which resulted in the pilot's inability to control the engine's power setting.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA030 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