CHC the provider of helicopters to offshore oil and gas platforms, ivilian search and rescue and air medical evacuation has missed a $46-million bond payment on debt that matures in 2020. The company has a 30-day...
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has delivered two EC145 helicopters to the National Police Agency in its native Japan. These will be the first EC145s to be used by the National Police Agency, and are replacements...
Two former AgustaWestland directors have been sentenced to prison terms, reports Reuters. In a long-running bribery case linked to the $638 million contract for twelve VIP AW101 helicopters to the Indian Air Force, the...
Faroe Islands operator Atlantic Airways has taken delivery of the second of the pair of AgustaWestland AW139s it had ordered. The aircraft will be used to perform search and rescue missions and for scheduled...
Recent reports of investment house activity in the shares of Air Methods (AIRM) have been strongly focused on share purchases. In recent weeks, these financials organisations have filed their fourth quarter 13F forms. This...
Milestone Aviation Group’s orders at the 2015 Paris Airshow for 31 helicopters are encouraging for helicopter OEMs as it shows that leasing companies are still keen to place speculative orders. Operating lessors have ordered...
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...
You can broadly speaking split the helicopter operators that serve the oil and gas industry into local and international operators. Although joint ventures between local and international operators can complicate this. The best know...
As part of its recommendations to improve the safety of offshore helicopter operations, the UK Civil Aviation Authority UK has collated data for reported offshore helicopter accidents. Between 1992 and 2013, the UK Civil...
The UK offshore helicopter fleet consists of 95 helicopters that carry more than one million passengers each year to 228 platforms and 100 mobile helidecks. Some 141,000 helicopter trips took place in 2012 flying...