Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E
N502SL is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sc Law Enforcement Division, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 369E · all 369Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 0244E
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A642F9 (octal 51441371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00653991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sc Law Enforcement Division
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 21398
Columbia, SC 29221-1398
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N502SL, 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 Sc Law Enforcement Division, a government body, certificate issued July 1, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0244E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N502SL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 369A (serial 980765, cancelled January 29, 2001). 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 N502SL: Accident on October 19, 2009 at Winnsboro, SC: 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: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to monitor the simulated emergency procedure, resulting in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the intentional throttle application by one of the flightcrew.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10LA023 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