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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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Total Flight Solutions LLC, 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 Saturday at 7:55 am.
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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 aluminiumA 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
- 12017
- 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-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- ABCE30 (octal 52747060)
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 19, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 4, 2022
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01217391
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Signal Hill Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N86TJ links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,944 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,182 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Total Flight Solutions LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 1,044 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Signal Hill Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Durham, NC 81 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,117 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R44 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R44 1,407 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R44 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 924 reports since 1995
- Where N86TJ is now · Last seen Saturday at 7:55 am.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data