Elivie
Elivie-Societá Italiana Esercizio Elicotteri was an helicopter airline of Italy.
History
The airline was established in 1956 november under the ELI-Linee Italiane S.p.A with capital of IRI and Alitalia operating 1 A.B.204 and 2Agusta-Bell AB.102 helicopters[1][2].In 1959,the airline was rebranded as Elivie.The response of the people was positive and Elivie was received many passengers year after year and not was suffer accidents,exceptly 1 time when one of the helicopters exploded by a suposed suicide plane it was flying in that time (probably a Cessna 310).
In 1968,the airline was acquired Sikorsky S-61 to Aero Transporti Italiani[3].For october of 1969,the airline was carried 34,821 passengers[4][5]. In 1971,Alitalia was stoped the Elivie operations,because he considered unprofitable.A year before,IRI was retired their investment on Elivie.