Chewbacca is a 200 year old Wookiee when he first meets Han Solo. So Wookiees appear to be relatively long lived. If you consider how many years Chewbacca probably knew Han, when we first meet him in Episode IV; he was somewhere between 200 and 210 years old. When you consider that Episode VII takes place thirty years after Episode VI, Chewbacca is very likely somewhere around 240 years old. Views · View Upvotes.