Heliswiss AG is a Swiss helicopter company with headquarters on the property of Bern Airport in Belp, Switzerland, near Bern.[1]
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| Founded | 1953 | ||||||
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| Headquarters | Bern Airport (canton of Bern), Switzerland | ||||||
| Website | heliswissinternational | ||||||
History
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Heliswiss - the oldest helicopter company in Switzerland - was founded as „Heliswiss Schweizerische Helikopter AG“ with headquarters in Berne-Belp on April 17, 1953. This was the beginning of helicopter flying in Switzerland. During the following years Heliswiss expanded in Switzerland and formed a network with bases in Belp BE, Samedan GR, Domat Ems GR, Locarno TI, Erstfeld UR, Gampel VS, Gstaad BE and Gruyères FR.
During the build-up of the rescue-company Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht (REGA) as an independent network, Heliswiss carried out rescue missions on their behalf.
Heliswiss carried out operations all over the world: in Greenland, Suriname, North Africa and South America.
The first helicopter owned by Heliswiss was a Bell 47 G-1. It was registered as HB-XAG on September 23, 1953. From 1963 Heliswiss started to expand and began to operate with medium helicopters like the Agusta Bell 204B with a turbine power of 1050 HP and an external load of up to 1500 kg. From 1979 Heliswiss operated a Bell 214 (external load up to 2.8 t). Since 1991 Heliswiss operates a Russian Kamov 32A12 which was joined by a second one in 2015.
Current fleet
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Swiss Helicopter's fleet comprises some 36 helicopters (as at December 2013):[2]
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Passengers | Notes |
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| AS350B3,D2 | 17 | 5 | |
| Aerospatiale SA 315B Lama | 1 | 4 | |
| Eurocopter EC120 Colibri | 5 | 4 | |
| Bell 206 | 2 | 4 | |
| Kamov KA-32A12 | 2 | 16 | operated by Heliswiss International AG |
| Schweizer 269/300 C | 3 | 2 | |
| Super Puma | 1 | 19 | |
| EC130 | 1 | 6 | |
| Guimbal Cabri G2 | 2 | 1 | |
| EC135 | 1 | 7 | |
| Total | 36 |
Bases
editFlughafen Bern-Belp, Samedan GR, Domat/Ems GR, Locarno Airport, Erstfeld UR, Gampel VS and Gruyères FR.
- Gstaad BE(winter base)
Products
edit- Flight-training (basic training, commercial pilot, mountain training, night-flight)
- Charter flights
- VIP-flights
- Heli-skiing
- Film- and foto-flights
- External load flights (up to 5000 kg), logging
- Firefighting
Partners/Subsidiaries
edit- Air Grischa
- BOHAG
- Heli Gotthard
- Heliswiss International AG
- Eliticino
- Air Zermatt AG
- Rhein-Helikopter AG (Liechtenstein only)
References
edit- ^ "Bern-Belp base Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine." Heliswiss. Retrieved on 25 February 2011. "Heliswiss is an international helicopter company based at Bern-Belp Airport."
- ^ swissheli.com: Heliswiss Flotte Retrieved 20 January 2013
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