Boeing CH-47D
N160EH is a Boeing CH-47D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 44 seats. It is registered to Unical Air INC, a corporation in Arcadia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated July 15, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- CH-47D · all CH-47Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 88-0108
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Honeywell T55-GA-714A · 4,860 lb thrust
- Seats
- 44
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A0F21A (octal 50171032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · July 15, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01250168
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Unical Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1240 Oakhaven Ln
Arcadia, CA 91006-2435
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N160EH, 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 Unical Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 2, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2019, 31 years after the 1988 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 88-0108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N160EH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: S N I A S AS-350B ECUREUIL (serial 2071, cancelled April 23, 1992). 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 N160EH: Accident on June 15, 1989 at Puntilla Lake, AK: 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: Aerospatiale AS350B · operated under 135
THE PILOT CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC) AND FAILED TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT ALTITUDE TO CLEAR THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THE WEATHER AND TERRAIN CONDITIONS WERE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89FA092 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