Babcock seeks a buyer. It’s a sale few expected and even fewer seem to want. Unless you are the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The authority’s decision earlier this month to order CHC...
Starspeed, Luxaviation Group’s corporate VIP helicopter company, has won the contract to operate Penzance Helicopters’ service to the Isles of Scilly, off the UK’s south west coast. The year-round 15-minute helicopter flights from Penzance...
LCI, RIVE Private Investment and Turning Rock Partners are buying 19 helicopters worth $115m from Lobo Leasing. “This portfolio acquisition is another major step in LCI’s strategic plan and reflects our confidence in the...
Leonardo Helicopters has appointed Clyde M Woltman CEO of AgustaWestland and Leonardo Helicopters US. Woltman joined Leonardo Helicopters in June 2019. He becomes CEO after previously serving as president of United States Government business,...
A new, as yet unnamed, operator has been appointed to conduct the UK Penzance Helicopters services to the Isles of Scilly off the UK’s south west coast. The new operator will take over from...
LEVL Leasing has been launched by Lobo Leasing and EMP Structured Assets to supply lease and capital solutions for helicopter and vertical lift operators, as capital demand is expected to climb. Lobo and EMP...
Airbus has completed the first flight of its twin-engine H225 helicopter with both Safran Makila 2 engines powered by Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). “This flight with SAF powering the twin engines of the H225...
Offshore helicopter operator PHI Aviation is siting its new Asia-Pacific (APAC) headquarters in Perth, Australia and is recruiting 42 new staff to join its 175-strong workforce. The operator selected Perth as its regional...
Five years after its launch, Airbus Corporate Helicopters (ACH) is continuing its drive towards sustainable growth – despite minor supply chain delays – Frederic Lemos, head of ACH, tells Helicopter Investor (HI). He means...
Two new Leonardo AW169 helicopters have been delivered by leasing services company LCI and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Company Limited (SMFL), from their joint venture leasing operation, to Italian emergency medical services (EMS)...
CareFlite is adding a Bell 407GXi, fitted with Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) configuration kit, to its air ambulance fleet. The new helicopter will join two Bell 429 helicopters in its Helicopter Air Ambulance (HAA)...