Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N881KE is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Porter Equipment Holdings LLC, an LLC in Magnolia, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10031
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AC2272 (octal 53021162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00010779
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Porter Equipment Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 20263 Alford Rd
Magnolia, TX 77355-6342
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N881KE, 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 Porter Equipment Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 7, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N881KE according to the deregistered file. [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 N881KE: Accident on October 21, 2024 at Houston, TX: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R44 · operated under 091
On October 20, 2024, about 1951 central daylight time, a Robinson R44 helicopter, N881KE, was destroyed when it impacted a radio tower near Houston, Texas. The pilot and three passengers sustained fatal injuries. The helicopter was operated as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 revenue sightseeing flight. According to preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) data and recorded air traffic control communications, the helicopter departed Ellington Airport, Houston, Texas, about 1942, and flew north, then northwest about 900 ft msl (see Figure 1). The pilot establ…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data