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N521PD

Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E

Sale reported California

N521PD is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Costa Mesa, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 14, 1989. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
Model
369E · all 369Es and related versions
Serial number
0321E
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1988
Transponder code
A68DEE (octal 51506756)

Registration

Status
Sale reported
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
August 27, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 14, 1989
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00754501

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sale Reported
Type
Individual
Address
1400 Anduril
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1548

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 1

2026-09-11Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N521PD, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 14, 1989, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0321E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N521PD according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 11, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N521PD. 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 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