Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N
N215M is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamstown, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 20, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 500N · all 500Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- LN083
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A1CD28 (octal 50346450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 20, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00996481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bunn Mary E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 162 N Dry Run Rd
Williamstown, WV 26187-9716
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N215M, 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 Bunn Mary E, an individual, certificate issued March 3, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 20, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LN083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N215M was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 600N (serial RN016, cancelled April 28, 2009); Bell 206L-3 (serial 51272, cancelled July 10, 2003); Fokker F-10-A(FXA) (serial 1044, cancelled March 19, 1935). 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]
1 NTSB record under N215M: Accident on April 23, 2001 at Willcox, AZ: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206-L3 · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to the likely unporting of the fuel tank pickups as the helicopter was maneuvered to look at animals on the ground. Also causal was the pilot's misjudged touchdown point during an autorotational approach, which resulted in the in-flight impact with a tree.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA157 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