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Same again
Surely there cannot be many R44's left flying. Rarely a day goes by that a crash is not reported somewhere. How many of these have been built?
Sadly, your problem might be that you only pay attention to Robinson crashes. According to the NTSB database, since the beginning of 2019 there have been 9 Robinsons (all types) destroyed, 32 substantially damaged, and 7 Bells (all types) destroyed, 29 substantially damaged. It's neck and neck. Not sure of the fleet totals, but at this rate, if both factories stopped building aircraft, we might still run out of Bells first because of the sheer number of Robinsons built.