Robinson Helicopter R44
N896J is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of North Dakota, a government body in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 25, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30086
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- AC5C66 (octal 53056146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 25, 2022
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01352716
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of North Dakota
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3980 Campus Rd Stop 9007
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007 - Co-owners
- John D Odegard School Of Aerospace Sciences
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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 N896J, 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 University Of North Dakota, a government body, certificate issued August 16, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 25, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N896J 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 N896J: Accident on September 6, 2024 at Grand Forks, ND: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Robinson Helicopter R44 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain helicopter control which resulted in impact with the ground. Contributing to the outcome was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA343 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
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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