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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Boeing-Vertol 107-II
N188CH is a Boeing-Vertol 107-II, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1964. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Columbia Helicopters INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 1, 2011.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Columbia Helicopters, Inc, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing-Vertol
- Model
- 107-II · all 107-IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing-Vertol 107 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 107
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CT58-140-2 · 1400 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- A15E9E (octal 50257236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00046121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Columbia Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14452 Arndt Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002-9525
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
Connections how N188CH links to the rest of the register
- Boeing-Vertol 107 7 registered
- Boeing-Vertol 24 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Columbia Helicopters, Inc · charter operator
- General Electric CT58-140-2 33 aircraft with this engine series · 1400 hp
- Type certificate 1H16 · held by Columbia Helicopters INC
- Columbia Helicopters INC 33 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, OR 270 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora State Airport · UAO
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing-Vertol 107 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing-Vertol 107 106 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing-Vertol 107 41 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT58-140-2 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT58-140-2 112 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sync Shaft, cracked · 2019-09-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bolt, broken · 2019-04-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 2019-01-18
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N188CH.json.
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The public federal record on N188CH, 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 Columbia Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 4, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 2011, 47 years after the 1964 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 107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N188CH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vertol 107-II (serial 107, cancelled February 7, 1991). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N188CH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data