Babcock wins five-year offshore contract from Bristownews Alasdair Whyte 10 Mar 20 0Babcock has won a five-year offshore transport contract from Integrated Aviation Consortium (IAC) to operate more than 100 helicopter flights per month between Shetland and… Read more
Helicopter Investor London 2020 – Appraising appraisersinsight Alasdair Whyte 9 Mar 20 0Valuing helicopters can be difficult. With a wide variety of missions, configurations and helicopter types – not to mention big price fluctuations – providing useful… Read more
Gama Aviation wants to disrupt the UK HEMS marketinsight Alasdair Whyte 5 Mar 20 0Gama Aviation, the charter and management company probably best known for its business jet services, has invested £20m into launching a helicopter air ambulance arm… Read more
Helicopter Investor London 2020: A new ERAinsight Alasdair Whyte 3 Mar 20 0Bristow and ERA are merging to form a dominant offshore operator, creating a safe and financially strong player with a presence in established and emerging… Read more
Helicopter Investor 2020: Offshore headwinds and tailwindsnews Alasdair Whyte 2 Mar 20 0Reports of the death of the offshore oil and gas market – and the helicopter fleet that serves it – are exaggerated, according to speakers… Read more
Helicopter Investor London 2020: Day two; the industry in 2030insight Mike Stones 28 Feb 20 0 A bright picture of the new helicopter industry to emerge by 2030 – an industry that will be leaner, more diversified, safer and more… Read more
Helicopter Investor 2020: Unmanned aspirationsnews Alasdair Whyte 27 Feb 20 0Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could provide a cheaper and safer alternative to helicopters on some firefighting and SAR missions, according to speakers at Helicopter Investor… Read more
Helicopter Investor London 2020: Starting with cautious optimisminsight Alasdair Whyte 26 Feb 20 0Cautious optimism summed up the mood on the first day of Helicopter Investor’s London 2020 conference. While speakers acknowledged the sector was still grappling with… Read more
ASX Partners with Spirit AeroSystems for eVTOL productionnews Alasdair Whyte 24 Feb 20 0Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kansas-based aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems to mass produce ASX’s MOBi-One aircraft concept. Jon… Read more
Volocopter extends Series C funding to €87 millionnews Alasdair Whyte 21 Feb 20 0Following a partnership with Asian super app Grab earlier this week, Volocopter announced today (21 February) that it is extending its Series C financing round… Read more
Helicopter leasing: Olivier Piot on finding success in a down marketinsight Alasdair Whyte 20 Feb 20 0At the turn of the millennia, the helicopter leasing market did not exist. But across the aisle, commercial aircraft leasing was booming, with almost half… Read more
Volocopter partners with Asian ‘SuperApp’ Grab for air-taxi studynews Alasdair Whyte 20 Feb 20 0German eVTOL pioneer Volocopter has partnered with Southeast Asian delivery, payment, and delivery services app Grab to study the feasibility of air-taxi services across the… Read more
Leasing market: Find out what’s in store at Helicopter Investor’s conferencenews Alasdair Whyte 18 Feb 20 0The future of helicopter leasing will take centre stage at Helicopter Investor’s London 2020 conference next Tuesday (February 25th) and Wednesday (February 26th) at the… Read more
Airbus orders and deliveries fell in 2019, revenues stablenews Alasdair Whyte 14 Feb 20 0Airbus Helicopters saw orders and deliveries fall in 2019, but the decline didn’t impact overall revenues, which saw a slight increase year-on-year (YoY). The French… Read more
Babcock takes £85m hit on aviation segmentnews Alasdair Whyte 13 Feb 20 0Babcock has written down £85m on the book values of its “predominantly oil and gas” aviation assets and leases, according to its latest trading update.… Read more
Civil helicopter deliveries to reach 4,100 before 2024news Alasdair Whyte 11 Feb 20 0About 4,100 civil helicopters are expected to be delivered to customers worldwide over the next four years, according to Honeywell’s new global helicopter outlook report.… Read more
Pre-owned helicopter sales fell in 2019insight Alasdair Whyte 7 Feb 20 0Sales in the pre-owned helicopter market fell year-on-year in 2019, according to Aero Assets’ 2019 Annual Pre-Owned Helicopter Market Trends Report. $444m worth of civil… Read more
HAI Heli Expo 2020 – OEM round upinsight Alasdair Whyte 5 Feb 20 0To announce at shows or not to announce at shows? That’s the question for OEMs planning their event coverage. Airbus generally prefers big announcements to… Read more
Leonardo to acquire Kopternews Alasdair Whyte 29 Jan 20 0Leonardo Helicopters will acquire Swiss helicopter OEM Kopter, the manufacturer of the upcoming the SH09, from majority shareholder Lynwood for at least $185m. Kopter started… Read more
Growth slows in Asia-Pacific helicopter market.insight Alasdair Whyte 28 Jan 20 0Following four years of substantial helicopter fleet growth in Asia, expansion the growth rate halved in 2019. That is according to Asian Sky Group’s (ASG)… Read more
