Specifications
AI Description
- Brand new paint and interior
- Air-conditioning equipped
- Configuration: Passenger/Corporate
- Airframe hours: 4,380
- Airframe retirement or overhaul hours remaining: 2,200
- Engine retirement or overhaul hours remaining: 2,200
- 12-year airframe inspection: 12 years remaining
- 12-year engine inspection: 12 years remaining
- Avionics: 9-hole panel, artificial horizon, direction indicator, altimeter, vertical speed indicator
- Bendix King radio and transponder
- Interior features: Leather seats
- Additional equipment: Bubble windows, new tailboom with new stabilizers
About this Model
Overview
The Robinson R44 Raven II is a single-engine, four-seat light helicopter commonly used for primary/advanced training, personal transport, utility support, and aerial observation. It emphasizes straightforward systems, a relatively low cockpit workload for its class, and broad parts/service availability in many regions. Typical missions center on short to moderate legs with payload managed around fuel, passengers, and environmental conditions (heat/high altitude).
Mission Fit
The R44 Raven II fits operations that prioritize flexible point-to-point access and time-on-task over long range or high payload. It is well suited to mixed use—training plus personal travel—where dispatch reliability depends on disciplined weight-and-balance planning and realistic hot-and-high performance margins.
Cabin
The cabin is compact but practical for four occupants, typically arranged as two front seats and a rear bench. Large windows support outward visibility for training and observation. Noise and vibration are typical of a piston helicopter, so passenger comfort improves with quality headsets and thoughtful loading. Baggage capability is modest and sensitive to fuel load and density altitude.