Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N871RA is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Homer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 21, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11599
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABFB85 (octal 52775605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 21, 2019
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01299494
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shapiro David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2477
Homer, AK 99603-2477
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N871RA, 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 Shapiro David, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11599 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N871RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83) (serial 49788, cancelled February 21, 2003). 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 N871RA. 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 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