Robinson Helicopter R44
N97UP 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 Mf Helicopters LLC, an LLC in East Troy, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 19, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson Helicopter (United States)
- Model
- R44 · all R44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0237
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AD831C (octal 53301434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 19, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00955821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mf Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- N8280 Hillburn Mill Rd
East Troy, WI 53120-2438
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 N97UP, 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 Mf Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 18, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 19, 2012, 16 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 0237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97UP 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 N97UP: Accident on August 14, 2017 at Westby, WI: 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 137
The pilot's failure to see and avoid power lines while maneuvering at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA491 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