Helicopter sales and acquisitions specialist Aero Asset has launched Aero Asset Acquisitions to facilitate “seamless global helicopter transactions”, financed by the Indiana-based 1st Source Bank. This new business unit buys turbine helicopters, single and...
Omni Helicopters International has agreed sale and leasebacks on 11 helicopters with Milestone Aviation. The leases cover a mixture of new Leonardo AW139s and existing Sikorsky S92s. “Omni was Milestone’s very first customer and...
Milestone Aviation Group has delivered the last AW139 in its 21-helicopter leasing deal with Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Overseas. Aramco signed the lease deal in 2018 for 21 new AW139s and five new Airbus H145...
Fewer than 40 words from Bristow Group helped draw a close to the company’s 50-plus years of operations in Australia. In a statement to Helicopter Investor (HI) the group says: “Given the market dynamics within the...
Airbus Helicopters has hailed a bounce back in orders and deliveries in 2021, while warning that it could take up to three years for the industry to recover to pre-Covid levels. The OEM also...
Enstrom Helicopter Corporation is to close on January 21st, 2022 after declaring Chapter 7 bankruptcy following “several financial difficulties”. The closure, after 64 years of near continuous operations, marks “the end of a storied...
Out with the ox, in with the tiger. As the global helicopter market prepares to welcome the Chinese New Year of the Tiger (which begins on February 1st, 2022), we begin a two-part focus...
LCI has agreed to acquire Nova Capital Aviation Ireland which owns Nova Capital’s twin-engine helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Nova Capital will keep its single-engine helicopter leasing portfolio. The acquisition means that LCI’s portfolio grows...
Aircraft lessor Nova Capital announced its 100th owned and managed aircraft bringing its total fleet value to $500m. This came following the award of a sale and leaseback facility for six new Airbus H145D3s...
2021, for many in the helicopter industry, has been a year of consolidation. As well as very good performance on the existing fleet, leasing services company Lobo Leasing also announced a management buy-out (MBO)....