In Popular Culture
- The 500D variant was featured, wildly bedecked with diagonal stripes of various colors, in the '80s television series Magnum, P.I., the personal mount of show character "T.C.".
- In almost every episode of the 1980s TV-series Airwolf the namesake helicopter faces two MD-500D armed with rocket pods as opponents in a final showdown.
- One 500C made a flying appearance at the end of rock musician Steve Miller's video for his 1986 hit I Want To Make The World Turn Around. A dual exposure shot from inside shows two helicopters hovering outside, moving slowly in front of the main window of Tacoma, Washington's Union Station; finally, one descends and hovers near the entrance momentarily and then climbs away.
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