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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Tandem Rotor Llc CH47D
N949CH is a Tandem Rotor Llc CH47D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Heligroup Fire LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated February 17, 2017.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Tandem Rotor Llc
- Model
- CH47D · all CH47Ds 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 Tandem Rotor Llc CH47 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
- 90-0205
- 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 · Honeywell T55-GA-714A · 4,860 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AD2ED1 (octal 53227321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 140 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 17, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01153293
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heligroup Fire LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N949CH links to the rest of the register
- Tandem Rotor Llc CH47 5 registered
- Tandem Rotor Llc 5 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell T55-GA-714A 29 aircraft with this engine series · 4,860 lb thrust
- Type certificate R0014DE · held by Tandem Rotor LLC
- Heligroup Fire LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Missoula, MT 758 aircraft registered in this town
- Missoula Montana Airport · MSO
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Tandem Rotor Llc CH47 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Tandem Rotor Llc CH47 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Tandem Rotor Llc CH47 4 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Honeywell T55-GA-714A 2 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Grip, cracked · 2024-02-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Door, detached · 2018-08-06
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N949CH.json.
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The public federal record on N949CH, 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 Heligroup Fire LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 18, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 17, 2017, 27 years after the 1990 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 90-0205 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N949CH 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 N949CH. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data