Waypoint Leasing orders 18 AgustaWestland helicoptersnews Terry Spruce 12 Oct 15 0Waypoint Leasing has placed an order with AgustaWestland for 18 helicopters. The aircraft, A MIXTURE OF AW169, AW139 and AW189 types, are expected to be… Read more
Waypoint Leasing acquires 20 H135 helicoptersnews Terry Spruce 9 Oct 15 0Waypoint Leasing has become the first lessor to acquire the Airbus Helicopters H135s, with an order for 20 helicopters at Helitech 2015. The 20 aircraft… Read more
LCI agrees two multi-year debt facilitiesnews Terry Spruce 7 Oct 15 0LCI has finalised two long-term debt facilities. Both lines will support $200m of incremental fleet growth in Australia. The aircraft have been financed under a… Read more
Lobo Leasing supports Médecins Sans Frontiéresnews Terry Spruce 6 Oct 15 0Lobo Leasing has chosen Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) as its corporate charity. ALSO READ: Stuart Jackson joins Lobo Leasing Lobo Leasing’s… Read more
Milestone expands global managementnews Terry Spruce 30 Sep 15 0Milestone Aviation Group has expanded its commercial team with eight new executives. With the new appointments the company is expanding its presence in Africa, Asia,… Read more
Stuart Jackson joins Lobo Leasingnews Terry Spruce 29 Sep 15 0Stuart Jackson has joined Lobo Leasing as a technical director. Jackson brings a wealth of technical and operations expertise with over 35 years in the… Read more
Waypoint Leasing delivers first H145 to Papua New Guineanews Terry Spruce 29 Sep 15 0Waypoint Leasing has delivered the first Airbus H145 to Pacific Helicopters, Papua New Guinea. “This transaction validates the increasing importance of the H145 in meeting… Read more
Voce Capital Management writes to Air Methods: “Great business, crummy stock”news Alasdair Whyte 17 Sep 15 0Voce Capital Management, an activist investor, has written to the board of Air Methods arguing that the company should be taken private. Written by Daniel… Read more
CMIFL orders 100 Airbus Helicoptersnews Terry Spruce 9 Sep 15 0China Minsheng International Financial Leasing Corp., Ltd. (CMIFL) has ordered 100 Airbus Helicopters rotorcraft. An initial batch of 10 helicopters are due to be delivered… Read more
Waypoint closes $200 million in capital market financingnews Terry Spruce 8 Sep 15 0Waypoint Leasing has closed on the private placement of $200 million of senior secured notes. This is Waypoint’s inaugural capital markets financing. The senior secured… Read more
Waypoint will open Rio de Janeiro office in 2016news Terry Spruce 13 Aug 15 0Waypoint Leasing will open its Latin American office in January 2016. The new office will be headed by Steffen Bay. Waypoint Leasing closes second deal… Read more
JSSI launches Tip-to-Tail program for AW139news Terry Spruce 13 Aug 15 0Jet Support Services (JSSI) launches its Tip-to-Tail program coverage for the AgustaWestland AW139. The company first introduced its Tip-to-Tail hourly cost maintenance program in 1997… Read more
JSSI launches AS350 parts only program at LABACEnews Terry Spruce 13 Aug 15 0Jet Support Services, Inc. (JSSI), has launched its new parts-only program for the full line of Airbus Helicopters AS350 rotorcraft. “We listened to AS350 owners… Read more
Gustavo Semeraro joins Lobo Leasing in Rio de Janeironews Terry Spruce 11 Aug 15 0Gustavo Semeraro has joined Lobo Leasing to help launch its Rio de Janeiro office. Semeraro joins from Bell Helicopter where he was Regional Sales Manager… Read more
Waypoint Leasing closes second lease with Lidernews Alasdair Whyte 11 Aug 15 0Waypoint Leasing has closed its second transaction with Brazil’s Lider Taxi Aereo. The lessor has bought one Sikorsky S-92 which it will lease back to… Read more
Helicopter Leasing: “It’s not subprime yet but it won’t take much of a shock to make it one”insight Alasdair Whyte 11 Aug 15 0Simon Sparkes of Nova Systems has written a provocative piece titled “Offshore Helicopter Leasing – an Existential Risk?” on HeliHub. He arguing that leasing companies will struggle… Read more
LCI closes innovative Islamic finance facilitynews Alasdair Whyte 29 Jul 15 0LCI Helicopters has closed an innovative Islamic pre-delivery payment facility with Bank of London and the Middle East and Lloyds Bank. The facility will be… Read more
CHC share price drops below NYSE compliance levelnews Alasdair Whyte 28 Jul 15 0The CHC Group’s closing share price on the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) has been below $1.00 for over 30 consecutive days. ALSO SEE: ALSO SEE:… Read more
Omni complete AW139 SLB with Lobonews Alasdair Whyte 17 Jul 15 0Portugal-based Omni Helicopters International has completed a sale and lease back transaction on four of its AW139s with Lobo Leasing. ALSO SEE: Brazil’s OHI Group… Read more
CHC shares slide, Milestone buys, Singapore Swingsinsight Alasdair Whyte 16 Jul 15 0NOTE: The below originally appeared as the editorial in our July 9 Helicopter Investor News. To find out more, and sign up for free, please… Read more
