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Robinson Helicopter R44
N86TS is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cts Aviation LLC, an LLC in Apex, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 6, 2000.
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 Thursday at 2:33 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s 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
- 0797
- 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 0-540F1 SERIE · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- ABCE38 (octal 52747070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2025
- 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 · June 6, 2000
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00375790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cts Aviation 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
- 566 Neodak Rd
Apex, NC 27523-5556
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 N86TS 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 O-540F1 SERIE 119 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- Cts Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Apex, NC 68 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
- Where N86TS is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:33 pm.
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The public federal record on N86TS, 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 Cts Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 20, 2007, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 6, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0797 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N86TS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Steffen Stanley E ROTORWAY EXEC (serial 3252, cancelled September 15, 1994). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N86TS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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