{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-02-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-06-09","city":"FREDERICKSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"171","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41899","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540-AE1A5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-09","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640122","mode_s_code":"50746064","mode_s_hex":"A3CC34","model":"R44 II","n_number":"N344AK","name":"CHAVI LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CANTWELL","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-05-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC02TA035","probable_cause":"A failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain adequate main rotor rpm during an out-of-ground-effect hover.","registration":"N344AK","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on May 16, 2002 at Cantwell, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N344AK is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Chavi LLC, an LLC in Fredericksburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 14, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Chavi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated February 14, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12166 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N344AK according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N344AK: Accident on May 16, 2002 at Cantwell, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"12166","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5264 RANCH ROAD 2721","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00459009","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N344AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"786245748"}