Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 600N
N3500X is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 600N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Helicopter Flight Services LLC, an LLC in Groton, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 600N · all 600Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- RN047
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47M · 650 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A3E73B (octal 50763473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 28, 2019
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00673697
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopter Flight Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12702 406Th Ave
Groton, SD 57445-5426
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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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3500X, 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 Helicopter Flight Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 28, 2019, 19 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RN047 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3500X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 670038, cancelled April 10, 2013). 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 N3500X: Accident on November 19, 1998 at Upland, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Mooney M20F · operated under 091
Loss of engine power due to water contaminated fuel and the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection of the airplane. A factor was the failure of the owner/pilot to properly maintain the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA035 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