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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 500N · all 500Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- LN014
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20R · 450 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A13EF1 (octal 50237361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00764092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City And County Of Honolulu
- Type
- Government
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14LA341 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pietenpol AIR-CAMPER · operated under 091
a loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA95LA219 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data