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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Vertol 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vertol
- Model
- 107
- Serial number
- 407
- 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 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A17EAF (octal 50277257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 1993
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 5, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00030038
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
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N196CH links to the rest of the register
- Vertol 5 aircraft on the register
- General Electric CT58 series 13 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Type certificate 1H16 · held by Columbia Helicopters INC
- Columbia Helicopters INC 33 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, OR 271 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora State Airport · UAO
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT58 series 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT58 series 2 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data