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This is a list of helicopter airlines. These are airlines which provide transport for passengers or cargo, or both, with fleets that comprise a significant proportion of helicopters.
Helicopter airlines
In operation
Defunct or renamed
- Air Alpha Greenland
- Air America
- Arizona Helicopters
- Asian Airlines
- Australian Helicopters
- Bajan Helicopters
- Bond Air Services
- Bond Aviation Group
- Bond Offshore Helicopters
- Boun Oum Airways
- Braathens Helikopter
- British Airways Helicopters
- Burundaiavia
- Continental Air Services, Inc
- Copterline Oy
- East Asia Airlines
- East Pakistan Helicopter Service
- Hong Kong Air International Ltd
- Los Angeles Airways
- New York Airways
- New York Helicopter
- Norrlandsflyg
- Norsk Helikopter
- San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines
- Schreiner Airways
- Sealand Helicopters
- Silver State Helicopters
- US Helicopter
Services offered
Some companies focus solely on winning ongoing contracts in a single industry sector, such as oil & gas. Other companies cater to a wider range of clients by offering one-off charter flights on an ad hoc basis. Services can include:
- Aid – disaster relief, humanitarian aid
- Agriculture – crop dusting, game monitoring, hydroseeding, livestock mustering, pest control, wildlife management
- Firefighting – helicopter bucket, helitack
- Flight training
- Forestry – heli-logging, stream restoration
- Freight – aerial crane, airdrop; general cargo and mail delivery in remote areas
- Industrial – construction, inspection and maintenance of overhead power lines, pipelines, mobile phone towers, offshore wind farms, hydropower facilities, and other infrastructure
- Maritime – pilot transfer and other ship-to-shore transport
- Medical – air ambulance, medical evacuation
- Military – aeromedical evacuation, pilot training; airlift, vertical replenishment and other logistical support
- Oil & gas – transporting crews to and from offshore platforms
- Passenger – VIP & corporate charter; scheduled flights from remote areas
- Photography – aerial photography, archaeology, film production, photogrammetry, television news reporting
- Science – water sampling, wildlife monitoring, snow radar, support to research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic
- Search & rescue – air-sea rescue, mountain rescue
- Surveillance – border control, coast guard, police
- Survey – aeromagnetic, mineral exploration, reflection seismology
- Tourism – sightseeing tours, heliskiing
Other helicopter companies
These are companies which do not qualify as airlines, strictly speaking, because they specialise in services other than the transport of passengers and cargo.
| Company name | Headquarter country | Principal services | Status |
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| Air Methods | United States | Medical evacuation, tourism | Active |
| Carson Helicopters | United States | Aerial lift, firefighting | Active |
| Croman Corporation | United States | Agriculture, forestry, industrial | Active |
| Erickson | United States | Aerial cranes, firefighting, forestry, industrial | Active |
| Evergreen International Aviation | United States | Agriculture, firefighting, forestry, industrial, military | Defunct |
| Global Traffic Network | United States | Traffic reporting | Active |
| Helibras | Brazil | Civil and Military | Active |
| Helog | Germany | Training | Active |
| Roberts Aircraft | United States | Agriculture, mapping | Active |
| Swanson Group Aviation | United States | Aerial cranes, firefighting, heli-logging, mapping | Active |
See also
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