DOC 145-RREV 2026.05SHEET 01/09
Alpha Company Aviation is an authorized Robinson R44 Service Center on the Florida Gulf Coast. The shop is staffed and tooled around the Raven I, Raven II, Clipper and Cadet. This page walks the airframe end to end, by part, by lifecycle hour, by what the factory has us trained to do.
Schedule R44 Service
R44 · DRG 001-A
Multi-view · Section A-A
What that means in practice
Robinson Helicopter Company publishes a directory of authorized service centers worldwide. Alpha Company Aviation is in that directory and you can verify it at robinsonheli.com under Service Centers. The designation means the shop, the technicians and the documented procedures meet Robinson's audited standards. It is not a marketing decision the factory makes for us.
In a Robinson airframe the consequences of guesswork run higher than in a fixed-wing. The two-blade teetering rotor, the dynamic component overhaul schedule, the Safety Notice cadence Robinson maintains, the fuel-system bladder calendar limits and the Lycoming O-540 idiosyncrasies all reward a technician who lives in this airframe daily. We do. The sections below walk the R44 end to end. The full services catalog covers everything else we do on fixed-wing aircraft, and the drop-off process is the same for an R44 as it is for any other airframe we touch.
By part. By system.
01Main rotor system
The two-blade teetering rotor is the signature Robinson system. We track blade hours against published service lives, run track-and-balance on the main rotor, and address vibration squawks rather than normalizing them. Pitch link adjustments and blade tip weights follow Robinson's specifications, not approximations.
02Mast and hub
Mast condition checks, swashplate inspection, and pitch link inspection are part of every 100-hour. The hub is overhauled on the schedule Robinson publishes. We track the mast against the calendar limit and the overhaul interval, whichever comes first.
03Lycoming O-540 powerplant
Cylinder work, ignition timing, magneto inspection, oil cooler service, intake and exhaust work. Top overhauls and majors are referred to a powerplant overhaul shop and reinstalled here. The schedule follows Robinson Service Bulletins and the relevant Lycoming service letters.
04Drive belt and sheave
The drive belts and the V-belt sheave have calendar and hour limits Robinson sets. We track them by part serial number against your airframe. Replacement is done on-condition or on-schedule, whichever lands first.
05Tail rotor
Tail rotor blade condition, hub bearings, pitch links, drive shaft, gearbox oil. Tail rotor balance is part of the dynamic balancing service we do on the same visit as the main rotor.
06Fuel system
Robinson fuel bladders have published calendar limits regardless of hours flown. Hoses are inspected and replaced on Robinson's interval. We track these against your specific airframe and tell you what is coming due at every inspection.
07Cabin and skids
Door latches, seat belts, skid shoes, cabin glass, basic interior fitment. The unglamorous part of the airframe that customers actually interact with every flight. Squawks here are addressed at every inspection.
12 years or 2,200 hours
Every R44 in service is on a calendar-and-hour clock toward mandatory overhaul. Slide the control to see where any airframe sits on that clock. We schedule, coordinate, and reinstall around the work the factory or a Robinson-recommended overhaul shop does on the back end.
Hours to overhaul
1,100
from estimate above
Years equivalent
6.0
at 100 hr/yr
Parts pipeline
Parts manufactured to spec at the factory in Torrance, California.
Distributed exclusively through Robinson's authorized parts network. Track-and-trace by part and serial.
Received, inspected, logged against your airframe by serial. Verify us in the directory.
Old serial off, new serial on, complete logbook entry. 17+ owners have walked this path with us.
Main and tail rotor
A new vibration in an R44 is not a personality trait. It is a measurable signal. We capture it with accelerometers on the ground and in flight, then resolve it with pitch links, tip weights, and blade adjustments to Robinson's specification.
Owners commonly tell us a previous shop told them to fly through it. We do not do that. The job is finished when you fly the airframe and tell us it feels right.
What goes back to the factory
A Robinson Authorized Service Center is not the same as the factory. There are jobs that go to Robinson or a Robinson-recommended specialty shop. We tell you which they are before you fly in.
Open a work order
We'll text or email within one business day to schedule. For urgent service, call (941) 661-7865.
