Robinson Helicopter R44
N8937R is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 30, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0279
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AC53D6 (octal 53051726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 30, 2020
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 01129673
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beckett David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 500 W Adson Rd
Wasilla, AK 99654-0708
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8937R, 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 Beckett David, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 30, 2020, 24 years after the 1996 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 0279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8937R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7HC (serial 7HC-22, cancelled August 16, 1986). 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 N8937R: Accident on August 16, 1986 at Epsom, NH: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Champion 7HC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86FNC08 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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