{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2004-07-01","city":"COLUMBIA","country_code":"US","county_code":"079","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-24","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3027369","mode_s_code":"51441371","mode_s_hex":"A642F9","model":"369E","n_number":"N502SL","name":"SC LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Winnsboro","damage":"SUBS","date":"2009-10-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA10LA023","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N502SL","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on October 19, 2009 at Winnsboro, SC: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sc Law Enforcement Division, a government body, certificate issued July 1, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0244E for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N502SL: Accident on October 19, 2009 at Winnsboro, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"0244E","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 21398","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00653991","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N502SL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"292211398"}