Boeing-Vertol 234LR
N246CH is a Boeing-Vertol 234LR, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 35 seats. It is registered to Columbia Helicopters INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 1, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing-Vertol
- Model
- 234LR · all 234LRs and related versions
- Serial number
- MJ017
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 2 motors · Honeywell AL5512 · 4075 hp
- Seats
- 35
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A24683 (octal 50443203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 1, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00802542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Columbia Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14452 Amdt Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N246CH, 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 July 5, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MJ017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N246CH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N246CH. 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 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