{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-10-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-08-15","city":"ANDERSON","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","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":"2032-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-08-15","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640122","mode_s_code":"51251262","mode_s_hex":"A552B2","model":"R44 II","n_number":"N442GS","name":"FLY-RIGHT AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"East Troy","damage":"SUBS","date":"2006-05-13","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CHI06FA128","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to calculate the weight and balance of the helicopter prior to flight, his failure to recognize and correct the forward center of gravity condition and his failure to abort the takeoff.  A factors was the pilot's improper decision to conduct the flight without seatbelts available for all passengers.","registration":"N442GS","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on May 13, 2006 at East Troy, WI: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N442GS 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 Fly-Right Aviation LLC, an LLC in Anderson, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Fly-Right Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 15, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12522 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N442GS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 ASTRO (serial 0683, cancelled August 4, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N442GS: Accident on May 13, 2006 at East Troy, WI: serious 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"12522","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3672 ABBEVILLE HWY","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01013628","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N442GS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2008,"zip":"296245500"}
