{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1996-08-05","airworthiness_ops":"To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1993-11-04","city":"AURORA","country_code":"US","county_code":"047","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30011","engine_horsepower":1350,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"CT58 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-30","maker":"Vertol","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VERTOL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"9420602","mode_s_code":"50277257","mode_s_hex":"A17EAF","model":"107","n_number":"N196CH","name":"COLUMBIA HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CANBY","damage":"DEST","date":"1996-10-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"SEA97FA001","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N196CH","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on October 4, 1996 at Canby, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Columbia Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 4, 1993, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 407 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N196CH according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N196CH: Accident on October 4, 1996 at Canby, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":20,"serial_number":"407","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"14452 ARNDT RD NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00030038","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N196CH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1965,"zip":"970029525"}