Leasing company Milestone has delivered a new Airbus H225 to Bond Offshore Helicopters, who will put it to work on the North Sea. The helicopter was one of 16 that Milestone contracted for in early 2012, for delivery between 2013
Simon Sparkes of Nova Systems has written a provocative piece titled “Offshore Helicopter Leasing – an Existential Risk?” on HeliHub. He arguing that leasing companies will struggle to cope with low oil prices. It is definitely worth reading in full here. Sparkes writes:
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Less than five years after the launch of Milestone Aviation Group it is astonishing how fast the market for dedicated helicopter operating lessors has grown.We are asked a lot to provide a ranking for operating leasing companies. This ranking below
JZ Capital Partners, a London listed private equity fund, has said that it is expecting to make $40 million from the $15.1 million that it invested in Milestone Aviation when the sale of the helicopter leasing company to GE Capital
The big story at Helitech, this year taking place in a damp Amsterdam, is GE Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) buying Milestone Aviation Group for $1.775 billion. When Gecas said that it was looking at entering the helicopter leasing market earlier
Milestone Aviation ordered another eight Sikorsky S-92 helicopters at Heli-Expo 2014, increasing its total orders to include 37 S-92 helicopter from Sikorsky – including options – worth more than $ 1.2 billion. The orders are scheduled to delivered over the
Milestone Aviation announces at Heli-Expo 2014 that it has financed the delivery of a Sikorsky S-76D to Trinidad and Tobago’s National Helicopter Services Limited (NHSL). “We are delighted to celebrate our partnership with NHSL with the first lease of the
Milestone Aviation Group now has 143 helicopters valued at $2.2 billion and has $3 billion in forward orders. Milestone Aviation Group has now financed 143 helicopters worth $2.2 billion. It also has 130 helicopters worth $3 billion on order. The
The AgustaWestland AW189 helicopter has been awarded its EASA type certificate. AgustaWestland has announced that the AW189 helicopter has been awarded a type certificate by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on 7 February 2014. Delivery of the first two
