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N501RM

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Md Helicopters Inc
Model
369E · all 369Es and related versions
Serial number
0598E
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2009
Transponder code
A63F2A (octal 51437452)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 11, 2010
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 11, 2009
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01023562

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
City Of Pasadena
Type
Government
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

1990-06-14Magee Robert BD-5A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to City Of Pasadena, a government body, certificate issued March 11, 2010, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 11, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0598E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N501RM: Accident on April 18, 1987 at Kankakee, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI87DEE08Accident on April 18, 1987 at Kankakee, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1736-A

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bede Aircraft BD5 A-B · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI87DEE08 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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