Columbia Model 234
Multi-Mission Chinook
Multi-Mission Chinook
Emergency Response
As emergencies and natural disasters increase in number and intensity,
the Columbia 234 Multi-Mission Chinook stands ready to meet any challenge.
The world’s largest standard transportation
category multi-mission heavy lift helicopter
category multi-mission heavy lift helicopter
The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook helicopter is a twin turbine engine, tandem rotor, FAA type certificated standard transport category helicopter designed for global multi-mission heavy lift operations. Certification ensures ease of operation internationally with no limitations or restrictions, making it a truly global multi-use platform.
The aircraft’s extreme flexibility, including combi configurations, allows agencies to easily support multiple missions year-round. Purposefully designed to reconfigure quickly, the aircraft reduces down time while maximizing cost efficiency.
The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook is ready to meet every mission. Hover over the Chinook below to see aircraft features.
Highly modular, the Columbia Model 234
Multi-Mission Chinook quickly changes
configurations to meet mission requirements
Multi-Mission Chinook quickly changes
configurations to meet mission requirements
The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook’s highly configurable profile allows you the flexibility to combine capabilities
for maximum utilization. Potential Combinations include: Passengers and Medevac, Passengers and
Cargo, Passenger & Firefighting, Passengers & Extended Range Fuel Tank.
Choose Your Mission
Passenger Transport
Rapidly Insert and Rescue
The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook is rapidly configurable in two separate ways to transport up to 44 passengers. Seating is easily installed and removed to change the aircraft mission profile.
Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System (FRIES)
Originally developed for deploying troops from a helicopter in places and situations where it is hard or challenging for the helicopter itself to touch down, the Fast Rope system is also helpful for personnel to be quickly inserted into areas without a landing zone to begin supporting efforts.
19-Seat Configuration
- Side facing crashworthy 19 seat configuration
- Easily storable fold-down seats
- 5-point harness
44-Seat Configuration
- Type Certified for up to 44 passengers with flight attendant(s)
- Multiple attachment points available per seat for easy flexibility in case of configuration changes
Firefighting
Precision Drops that Pack a Punch
As the world experiences larger, hotter, and longer fire seasons, agencies demand bigger, more effective firefighting tools. The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook delivers. With internal and external lift capabilities, this workhorse drops water/retardant payload with extreme precision.
Additional Firefighting Support
- Supply Drops
- Medevac
- 19 Pax Crew transport in standard configuration
- Ground-clearing vehicle delivery
External | Bambi Bucket
As an alternative to the internal tank, the Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinhook utilizes the 2,600-gallon bucket for suppressant and retardant drops.
- LONG REACH – Bucket suspends 200 feet below the helicopter, giving access to streams, lakes, and rivers in wooded areas
- HIGH CAPACITY – 2,600-gallon (9,842-liter) SEI Powerfill Torrentula Bambi Bucket
- QUICK FILL – Four high speed pumps fill the bucket in less than 90 seconds
- SHALLOW SOURCE -Can fill from a water source as shallow as 18 inches
Internal | Simplex Fire Attack System
Columbia’s internal fire attack system utilizes the aircraft’s expansive interior to deliver flexible fire suppression options.
- DUAL TANKS – The system includes an internal 2,800-gallon (10,599-liter) capacity tank and a 140-gallon (529-liter) retardant reservoir
- QUICK DROPS – Drops full load in 4 seconds
- VERSATILE – Can drop a combination of water, retardant, and/or foam
2,800 Gallon Internal Tank Capacity
2,600 Gallon External Bucket Capacity
8 Coverage Drop Selections
6 Water Drop Settings
Cargo Transport
Heavy Lift Master
The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook supports both internal and external cargo operations, or both simultaneously for specialized missions.
External Cargo Capabilities
Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook’s external lift capabilities are like no other aircraft built today. From repair, construction, and large vehicle transport to delivering critical emergency supplies in natural disasters, this helicopter delivers with long line precision placement (L2P2).
Internal Cargo Management System
Designed after those found in a large transport airplane, Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook’s internal cargo management system allows for fast and efficient use of the aircraft’s large cabin for internal cargo.
Highlights
- CLEAR SIGHTLINES – Bubble window for unobstructed precision load placement
- REAR LOADING HOIST – Easily bring cargo onto the aircraft and to unload cargo from the air without having to land
- CARGO HOOK – Cargo hook can support an external load of up to 25,000 lbs/11,339 kgs
- RIGGING OPTIONS – Rigging options allow everything from vehicle slings and supply delivery to specialized precision construction placement
Pallet Loading Floor System
Columbia’s exclusively designed 463L Pallet loading floor system features rollers built into specially engineered panels. The system offers minimal rolling resistance when needed and can be easily and safely stowed away when not in use.
Internal Cabin Dimensions
- Internal Cabin Height 6.5 ft / 1.9 m
- Internal Cabin Width 8.3 ft / 2.5 m
- Internal Cabin Length 30.2 ft / 9.19 m
Supports loads up to 6 x 8 x 27 ft / 1.83 x 2.43 x 8.23 m
ROLLERS built into specially engineered panels
Diagram
Medevac
Saving More Lives
The Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook utilizes the Stanchion Litter System for transporting critical patients and their caregivers to safety. The system is fully customizable to specific customer requirements, providing extraordinary flexibility for air evacuation.
Highlights
- COMPATIBLE – Integrated restraints ensure compatibility with a variety of litter types
- VERSATILE – Designed for equipment attachment including IV fluid bags, medical equipment, task lighting, and cargo nets / Optional Over Size Litter (OSL) Adapter and Oxygen Cylinder Mount available
- STRONG – Supports evacuee weight of up to 350 lbs
- ADJUSTABLE – Platforms vertically adjustable in one-inch increments
- TOOL-FREE – Installs tool-free in under 15 minutes
- FLEXIBLE – Installs directly to existing seat track, hard points, or cargo rings
Advanced Life Support Patient Loading Utility System (plus)
The Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook also accommodates the LifePort Patient Loading Utility System™ (PLUS), a self-contained unit which includes an advanced life support base unit, manual loading system, and AeroSled™ stretcher.
- Single and tandem patient configurations available
- Leveling leg eliminates lifting of patient inside aircraft
- Single hand release for locking and unlocking sled
- Cargo track to secure medical devices and monitors
- Includes single or dual oxygen cylinder, compressed air, vacuum, and electrical inverter
- 115 or 230 VAC electrical outlets
- Light, compact design
Patient Extraction and Medevac Insertion
Originally developed for deploying troops from a helicopter in places and situations where it is hard or challenging for the helicopter itself to touch down, the Fast Rope system is also helpful for personnel to be quickly inserted into areas without a landing zone to begin supporting efforts.
- REAR AND SIDE LOADING HOISTS – The rear loading hoist allows medical personnel to safely extract patients
- FAST ROPE INSERTION EXTRACTION SYSTEM (FRIES) – Multi-functional in many ways, this Fast Rope system allows medical and search and rescue personnel to be quickly inserted into areas without a landing zone to begin administering care immediately
The Value of Multi-Mission Success
Columbia Helicopters holds the type certificate for the Columbia Model 234 Multi-Mission Chinook as well as an FAA 14 CFR 135 operating certificate, allowing us to modify, maintain, sell, lease, and operate the aircraft. For customers seeking a full-service, cost-effective solution, we provide aircraft, highly trained and experienced pilots, a fully certified operations and maintenance crew, and perform all maintenance. We also provide full maintenance support for purchased or leased aircraft.