Heliswiss
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Heliswiss is a Swiss helicopter company with headquarters in Berne-Belp.
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[edit] History
Heliswiss - the oldest helicopter company in Switzerland - was founded as „Heliswiss Schweizerische Helikopter AG“ with headquarters in Berne-Belp on April 17th 1958. 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 und 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 23rd 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 1500kg. 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 2005.
[edit] Current fleet
- 3 Hughes 300C (HB-XFQ, HB-XYI, HB-XYL)
- 3 BH06 (HB-XLA, HB-XPQ, HB-XSI)
- 1 AS350B2 (HB-XVB), 1 AS350B3 (HB-ZEI)
- 1 SA315B Lama (HB-XTD)
- 2 Kamov KA-32A12 (HB-XKE, HB-ZFX)
[edit] Bases
- Bern-Belp
- Gruyères
- Gstaad (winter base)
[edit] Products
- 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
[edit] Partners
- Air Grischa
- BOHAG
- Heli Gotthard
- eliticino
- Rhein-Helikopter AG
- Air Zermatt AG
