Bristow posts 2025 revenue up at $1.5bnnews Mike Stones 26 Feb 26 0Bristow has posted 2025 total revenues of $1.5bn, boosted partly by the growth of its Government Services business, compared with $1.4bn during the previous year.… Read more
Leonardo posts 2025 revenue 11% up at €19.5bnnews Mike Stones 25 Feb 26 0Leonardo posted revenues up 11% to €19.5bn in preliminary results for the full-year 2025. Revenue growth was accompanied by a noticeable improvement in both operating… Read more
Heli hires: Bristow appoints new chief legal officernews Mike Stones 25 Feb 26 0Bristow Group has promoted Anne Rappold to the role of chief legal officer and corporate secretary, with immediate effect. Rappold has served as acting chief… Read more
HI Uplift: Airbus screens full-year 2025 resultsnews Mike Stones 20 Feb 26 0If you like your aviation videos fast-paced and glitzy, you would enjoy the two-and-a-half-minute film preceding Airbus’s 2025 results presentation yesterday. There was plenty for… Read more
Airbus Helicopters lifts 2025 revenues by 13% to €8.9bnnews Mike Stones 19 Feb 26 0Airbus Helicopters achieved revenues of €8.9bn ($10.6bn) last year – 13% up on 2024 – in full-year 2025 results posted today by its parent company… Read more
HI Uplift: RIVE finds fresh wind from Milestone heli dealnews Mike Stones 13 Feb 26 0Power generation from North Sea wind platforms is enjoying a bit of a moment. In January, the UK government launched Europe’s biggest single procurement of offshore wind in… Read more
HI Deal of the Year Awards 2026: Nominations welcomenews Mike Stones 12 Feb 26 0Helicopter finance deals are the engine of growth that is powering a resurgent global rotary industry. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural Helicopter… Read more
Aero Asset single-engine report charts tighter supplynews Mike Stones 11 Feb 26 0Tightening supply and resilient pricing are revealed by Aero Asset’s 2025 Annual Heli Market Trends Single-Engine edition. The report details how the global supply of… Read more
AerCap reports ‘momentous 2025’ for Milestonenews Alasdair Whyte 9 Feb 26 0AerCap, the parent company of Milestone, reported record net profit of $3.8bn for 2025. “We are pleased to announce another strong quarter for AerCap, completing… Read more
Centaurium Aviation MRO sees management buyoutnews Mike Stones 9 Feb 26 0Switzerland-based rotary maintenance, repair and overhaul organisation Centaurium Aviation MRO is undergoing a management buyout in what the company describes as “part of a planned… Read more
Bristow Group closes $500m offering, extends ABL facilitynews Fayaz Hussain 28 Jan 26 0Houston-based Bristow Group said it has successfully closed private offering of $500m aggregate principal amount of 6.750% senior secured notes due 2033 and extension of… Read more
RIVE acquires four heli-portfolio from Milestonenews Mike Stones 16 Jan 26 0RIVE Private Investment has acquired a four-helicopter portfolio from Milestone Aviation. The deal includes three Leonardo AW139s and one Leonardo AW169. Three of the fleet… Read more
Bristow announces private offering of $400m notesnews Fayaz Hussain 13 Jan 26 0Houston-based Bristow Group announced a private offering of $400m principal amount of senior secured notes due 2033. The notes are expected to pay interest semi-annually… Read more
HI Uplift: Will the helicopter industry gallop ahead or slither along?news Mike Stones 10 Jan 26 0Welcome to 2026, the Chinese Year of the Horse. But not yet. According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, we will remain in the Year of… Read more
Helicopter Investor’s New Year news roundupnews Mike Stones 6 Jan 26 0Welcome to Helicopter Investor’s news round up of stories you may have missed over the festive period. Featuring in our news list are manufacturers, operators… Read more
GDHF to acquire NHV in ‘the most unusual deal ever’news Mike Stones 22 Dec 25 0Helicopter industry watchers were treated to a true pre-Christmas cracker on Friday night with the announcement that lessor GD Helicopter Finance is to acquire NHV… Read more
Lessor GDHF to buy operator, MRO & training firm NHVnews Mike Stones 20 Dec 25 0Lessor GD Helicopter Finance (GDHF) has signed an agreement to acquire NHV group – the rotary operator, maintenance and training business. GDHF expects to complete… Read more
HI Uplift: Rotortrade hails Euro demand (and UK promise)news Mike Stones 19 Dec 25 0Rebounding civil helicopter markets – with steady demand and increasing parapublic missions – is how Rotortrade describes the “mature but shifting market” of Europe, according… Read more
HI Uplift: HEMS growth but contract challengesnews Mike Stones 13 Dec 25 0The good news is growth. The not-so-good news is increasing contractual challenges. That’s the helicopter view of the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) market from… Read more
HI Uplift: Leonardo on designing new market opportunitiesnews Mike Stones 5 Dec 25 0Seldom do we mention the space in which our interviews take place. But it’s worth making an exception for the latest conversation with Giacomo Zampetti,… Read more
