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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins; metal rotor blades. This is how the Robinson R44 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 30086
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-F1B5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- AC5C66 (octal 53056146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 25, 2022
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01352716
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University of North Dakota (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3980 Campus Rd Stop 9007
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007 - Co-owners
- John D Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
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.
Connections how N896J links to the rest of the register
- Robinson R44 1,939 registered
- Robinson Helicopter 3,176 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540-F1B5 299 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate H11NM · held by Robinson Helicopter CO
- University Of North Dakota 89 aircraft in the fleet
- Grand Forks, ND 273 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Forks International · GFK
- North Dakota 2,489 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Robinson R44 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Robinson R44 1,407 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Robinson R44 110 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-F1B5 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-F1B5 378 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N896J.json.
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data