Robinson R44 Raven I For Sale

Price: 85,000
Private sale VAT cannot be shown separately

This Robinson R44 Raven I is offered for sale with a comprehensive maintenance and component-status record.

According to the uploaded Cardex dated 17 June 2026, the helicopter has:

Airframe total time: 3,730.25 hours
Engine time recorded since overhaul: 1,535.05 hours
Serial number: 1106
Manufacture date: 1 August 2001
Four-seat configuration
Hydraulic flight controls
Garmin GNS 430 navigation/communication unit
Garmin GTX 328 Mode S transponder

The Cardex records the aircraft s status at 3,730.25 total hours and identifies the engine as L-25964-40A.

High-Potential Components

A key advantage of this aircraft is that several valuable components show substantial remaining hourly and/or calendar potential in the Cardex. The figures below are reproduced from the uploaded component-status report and are based on its status date of 17 June 2026.

Components with the highest recorded hourly potential
Component Recorded remaining potential
Main rotor shaft 2,293.65 hours
Lower swashplate 2,293.65 hours
Tail rotor shaft 2,293.65 hours
Tail rotor guard 2,135.95 hours
Tail rotor blades 2,049.65 hours each
Elastomeric engine support, recently installed unit 2,049.65 hours
Engine-cooling system panel components Up to 2,423.95 hours
Spring pin and associated washers 1,902.25 hours
Main rotor mast/hub bolt and nut 1,485.25 hours
Fanwheel assembly 1,304.25 hours
Main rotor pitch-link assemblies 1,284.35 hours
Fanshaft and fanshaft bearing 1,227.25 hours
One hydraulic servo control 959.45 hours
Tailcone assembly 669.75 hours
Horizontal stabilizer 669.75 hours
V-belts 665.15 hours

The Main Rotor Shaft is listed with a 4,400-hour life limit and 2,293.65 hours remaining. By contrast, several original main-gearbox components show only 93.65 hours remaining, so the high-potential shaft should not be presented as meaning the complete gearbox has the same remaining life.

Particularly attractive calendar potential

The Cardex also shows substantial calendar potential on several more recently installed items:

Tail rotor blades: approximately 164.4 months remaining, with a recorded limit in February 2040.
Recently installed elastomeric engine support: approximately 128.4 months remaining.
Fanshaft and fanshaft bearing: approximately 116.6 months remaining.
One hydraulic servo control: approximately 116.6 months remaining.
Main rotor pitch-link assemblies: approximately 72.2 months remaining.
Fanwheel assembly: approximately 73.2 months remaining.
V-belts: approximately 47.2 months remaining.
Commercial Value of the Component Status

The aircraft s strongest technical selling point is not the remaining potential of every assembly, but the presence of several individually valuable components with comparatively high remaining life.

In particular, the tail rotor blades, main rotor shaft, lower swashplate, tail rotor shaft, recently installed engine-support component, fan system components and selected flight-control components represent meaningful residual component value.

This is important for a buyer because these parts may reduce near-term replacement exposure compared with an aircraft whose major high-value components are all close to their life limits.

However, the Cardex also identifies a number of components and inspections with approximately 93.65 hours remaining and several calendar-controlled items approaching or reaching their recorded twelve-year dates in June 2026. The aircraft should therefore not be advertised as having uniformly high remaining life throughout. The correct and credible description is:

The helicopter includes a mixed component-status profile, with several high-value components offering substantial remaining hourly and calendar potential, while other assemblies and scheduled inspections are approaching their applicable limits.

Suggested Sales Description

This Robinson R44 Raven I offers an attractive opportunity for a private buyer, operator, maintenance organisation or component-focused purchaser.

The aircraft is supplied with its available technical records, logbooks and detailed Cardex. Several important components show strong remaining potential, including approximately 2,294 hours on the main rotor shaft, lower swashplate and tail rotor shaft, approximately 2,050 hours on both tail rotor blades

The tail rotor blades also show significant calendar potential, with their recorded life limit extending to February 2040. Further valuable components with substantial remaining life include selected engine-support components, fanshaft components, main rotor pitch links, hydraulic flight-control components and engine-cooling system parts.

The aircraft therefore offers not only operational value as a complete helicopter, but also notable residual value in a number of individual high-value components.

Asking price: 85,000

Private sale. VAT cannot be shown separately.

Inspection of the helicopter, logbooks and complete component-status documentation is strongly recommended before purchase. All remaining-life figures must be verified against the current original Cardex, logbooks, maintenance releases and the applicable Robinson maintenance instructions. Where both an hourly and a calendar limitation apply, the first limit reached governs.