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A Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500, the same model family as N520MD
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026
N520MD

Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesGeorgia

N520MD is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1992. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Chatham County Mosquito Control, a government body in Savannah, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 12, 2018.

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Aircraft

Maker
Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
Model
500N · all 500Ns and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500 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
LN039
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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C20R/2 · 450 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
4
Year built
1992
Transponder code
A68A05 (octal 51505005)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 20, 2018
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 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 · April 12, 2018
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01242803

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Chatham County Mosquito Control
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
65 Billy B Hair Dr
Savannah, GA 31408-9068

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

2001-02-23Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

Connections how N520MD links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rolls-Royce 250-C20R/2 24 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
  • Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
Owner
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N520MD.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N520MD, 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 Chatham County Mosquito Control, a government body, certificate issued August 20, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 2018, 26 years after the 1992 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LN039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N520MD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N (serial LN018, cancelled February 23, 2001). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N520MD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data