Md Helicopters Inc 369E
N501RM is a Md Helicopters Inc 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to City of Pasadena, a government body in Pasadena, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 11, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Md Helicopters Inc
- Model
- 369E · all 369Es 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 Md Helicopters Inc 369 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
- 0598E
- 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 · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A63F2A (octal 51437452)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2010
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 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 · September 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01023562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of Pasadena
- 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
- 207 N Garfield Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101-1748 - Co-owners
- Police Department-Aviation Section
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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
Connections how N501RM links to the rest of the register
- Md Helicopters Inc 369 108 registered
- Md Helicopters Inc 145 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20B 113 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- City of Pasadena 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pasadena, CA 82 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Md Helicopters Inc 369 84 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Md Helicopters Inc 369 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Md Helicopters Inc 369 191 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20B 1,981 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N501RM, 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 of Pasadena, a government body, certificate issued March 11, 2010, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 11, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0598E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N501RM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Magee Robert BD-5A (serial 1736, cancelled June 14, 1990). 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 N501RM: Accident on April 18, 1987 at Kankakee, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Bede Aircraft BD5 A-B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data