{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2017-02-17","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-06-13","city":"MISSOULA","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan release","doc_type_code":"REL","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-08-14"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33886","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"T55-GA-714A","engine_thrust_lb":4860,"expiration_date":"2027-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Tandem Rotor Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TANDEM ROTOR LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8840351","mode_s_code":"53223543","mode_s_hex":"AD2763","model":"CH47D","n_number":"N947CH","name":"HELIGROUP FIRE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N947CH 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 13, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated February 17, 2017. 1 document is on file: loan release.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heligroup Fire LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 86-1682 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N947CH according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Loan release (August 14, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N947CH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"86-1682","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 7967","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01153292","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N947CH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1990,"zip":"59802"}