Cautious optimism summed up the mood on the first day of Helicopter Investor’s London 2020 conference. While speakers acknowledged the sector was still grappling with what one termed “the hangover of oversupply,” there was...
At the turn of the millennia, the helicopter leasing market did not exist. But across the aisle, commercial aircraft leasing was booming, with almost half of all commercial aircraft flying being owned by and/or...
Sales in the pre-owned helicopter market fell year-on-year in 2019, according to Aero Assets’ 2019 Annual Pre-Owned Helicopter Market Trends Report. $444m worth of civil helicopters were sold 2019, down 5% from last year’s...
To announce at shows or not to announce at shows? That’s the question for OEMs planning their event coverage. Airbus generally prefers big announcements to dominate the headlines whereas Sikorsky often forgoes any fanfare....
Following four years of substantial helicopter fleet growth in Asia, expansion the growth rate halved in 2019. That is according to Asian Sky Group’s (ASG) year-end fleet report. Year-on-year, fleet expansion fell from a...
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It has not been such a bad few years for helicopter leasing after all. In 2010, less than 1% of the world’s helicopter fleet belonged to lessors. Now our latest research shows that...
This article originally appeared as part of our Helicopter Investor Weekly Newsletter. To read these stories first, subscribe to our newsletter here. It is easy to be deterred from investing when a market...
New Yorkers might live happily with the roar of traffic down Fifth Avenue, but it seems that some of them object to the noise of helicopters over the Big Apple. Now, some of the...
UPDATE: Flight restrictions over New York City right now are exclusively limiting Helicopter Tourism flights. New York Helicopter operates exclusively tourism flights and the NYCEDEC’s measures to reduce helicopter noise are currently limited to...