{"airworthiness_class":"Multiple","airworthiness_date":"2019-07-16","airworthiness_ops":"Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-10-14","city":"BOERNE","country_code":"US","county_code":"259","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":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Robinson Helicopter","maker_country":"US","maker_raw":"ROBINSON HELICOPTER","maker_segment":"Helicopter","mfr_mdl_code":"7640120","mode_s_code":"52656755","mode_s_hex":"AB5DED","model":"R44","n_number":"N831VA","name":"TRAVEL SYSTEMS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Decatur","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-09-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN25LA389","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s loss of control during an off-airport, pinnacle landing, and the flight instructor\u2019s inadequate supervision of the instructional flight.","registration":"N831VA","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 19, 2025 at Decatur, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N831VA is a Robinson Helicopter R44, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Travel Systems LLC, an LLC in Boerne, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 16, 2019.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Travel Systems LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 14, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 16, 2019, 6 years after the 2013 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13477 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N831VA 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 N831VA: Accident on September 19, 2025 at Decatur, TX: 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":"13477","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"227 AUGUSTA","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01118896","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N831VA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2013,"zip":"780066156"}