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N87MD

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

Valid Texas

N87MD is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC, a corporation in Temple, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 22, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
Serial number
12263
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2008
Transponder code
ABF514 (octal 52772424)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 11, 2017
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 22, 2008
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01003598

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
7720 Airport Rd Ste C
Temple, TX 76502-6974

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N87MD, 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 Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 22, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N87MD 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 N87MD. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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