Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N
N520NT is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aurora Meridian LLC, an LLC in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 500N · all 500Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- LN066
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A68A2C (octal 51505054)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 12, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00245192
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aurora Meridian LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Vahan M Dinihanian JR
237 NW Skyline Blvd
Portland, OR 97210-1053
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N520NT, 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 Aurora Meridian LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 22, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LN066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N520NT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell-Douglas Helicopter 369F/530F (serial 0012F, cancelled February 24, 1997). 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 N520NT: Accident on September 28, 1994 at Mesa, AZ: 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: Mcdonnell Douglas 520N · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE CHASE HELICOPTER PILOT TO MAINTAIN CLEARANCE FROM THE LEAD HELICOPTER DURING A NIGHT APPROACH TO LAND. POSSIBLE FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARKNESS, AND INADEQUATE RADIO COORDINATION BETWEEN FLIGHT CREWS OF THE TWO HELICOPTERS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94FA383 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