Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N
N520N 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 Quantumtrace INC, a corporation in Incline Village, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 1, 1992.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 500N · all 500Ns 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 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
- LN031
- 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-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A68A1A (octal 51505032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 15, 2026
- 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 · July 1, 1992
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00144022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quantumtrace INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 930 Tahoe Blvd Ste 802 Pmb 541
Incline Village, NV 89451-9488
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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 2
Connections how N520N links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500 27 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 135 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-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Quantumtrace INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Incline Village, NV 81 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N520N, 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 Quantumtrace INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 23, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 1, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LN031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N520N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N (serial LN037, cancelled January 7, 1999); Curtiss Robertson ROBIN J-1 (serial 717, cancelled October 18, 1955). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N520N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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