Specifications
AI Description
- New tail rotor blades installed
- All service bulletins (SBs) and airworthiness directives (ADs) completed
- Leather seats
- New roof lining
- Original paint and interior
- Configuration: Passenger/Corporate
- Airframe hours: 1,125
- Airframe retirement or overhaul (OH) hours remaining: 2,200
- Engine retirement or OH hours remaining: 2,200
- 12-year airframe inspection due in 6 years
- 12-year engine inspection due in 6 years
- Avionics: 9-hole panel, artificial horizon, direction indicator, altimeter, vertical speed indicator
- Bendix King radio and transponder
- Garmin 420 GNC GPS and second comm radio
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.