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N553JB

Robinson Helicopter R44 II

Valid Texas

N553JB is a Robinson Helicopter R44 II, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Institute INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Robinson Helicopter (United States)
FAA spelling: ROBINSON HELICOPTER COMPANY
Model
R44 II
Serial number
13071
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AE1A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A70B5A (octal 51605532)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 13, 2010
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01061114

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Helicopter Institute INC
Type
Corporation
Address
101 Aviator Dr
Fort Worth, TX 76179-5412

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2008-05-28Airbus A320-232 · exported to Germany · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data