Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N
N18GH is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to City and County of Honolulu, a government body in Honolulu, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 500N · all 500Ns and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- LN014
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20R · 450 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A13EF1 (octal 50237361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 17, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00764092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City and County of Honolulu
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 530 S King St Rm 300
Honolulu, HI 96813-3019
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N18GH links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500 27 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 135 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20R 4 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- City and County of Honolulu 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Honolulu, HI 193 aircraft registered in this town
- Daniel K Inouye International · HNL
- Hawaii 650 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20R 13 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N18GH, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to City and County of Honolulu, a government body, certificate issued August 23, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LN014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18GH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hagood PIETENPOL AIR-CAMPER (serial GH1, cancelled June 30, 1999). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
2 NTSB records under N18GH: Accident on August 12, 2014 at Idaho Falls, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 12, 1995 at Redmond, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of helicopter control for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the helicopter did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pietenpol AIR-CAMPER · operated under 091
a loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data