Vertol 107
N196CH is a Vertol 107, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Columbia Helicopters INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 1993 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated August 5, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vertol
- Model
- 107
- Serial number
- 407
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Ge CT58 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A17EAF (octal 50277257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 1993
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · August 5, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00030038
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Columbia Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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The public federal record on N196CH, 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 November 4, 1993, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 5, 1996, 31 years after the 1965 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 407 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196CH according to the deregistered file. [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 N196CH: Accident on October 4, 1996 at Canby, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 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: Boeing Vertol BV-107 II · operated under 091
failure of maintenance personnel to install a cotter pin in a clevis bolt in the flight control system, which resulted in the aft directional and lateral control output pushrod to become disconnected from a bellcrank in the forward portion of the first stage mixing unit. A factor relating to the accident was the use of an improper bellcrank, which was wider in the clevis area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97FA001 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