Robinson Helicopter R44 II
N978ET is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flying J Services LLC, an LLC in Jourdanton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 28, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
- Model
- R44 II · all R44 IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 10978
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- ADA1D3 (octal 53320723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · February 28, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00208369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying J Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1750 County Road 323
Jourdanton, TX 78026-5193
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.
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The public federal record on N978ET, 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 Flying J Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 26, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 28, 2019, 14 years after the 2005 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 10978 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N978ET 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N978ET. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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