{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-02-12","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-06-22","city":"PORTLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"051","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03020","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C20 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3027374","mode_s_code":"51505054","mode_s_hex":"A68A2C","model":"500N","n_number":"N520NT","name":"AURORA MERIDIAN LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MESA","damage":"DEST","date":"1994-09-28","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX94FA383","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N520NT","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on September 28, 1994 at Mesa, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aurora Meridian LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 22, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LN066 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","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 N520NT: Accident on September 28, 1994 at Mesa, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"LN066","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O VAHAN M DINIHANIAN JR","street2":"237 NW SKYLINE BLVD","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00245192","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N520NT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"972101053"}