Cougar Helicopters

Cougar Helicopters Incorporated

IATA - ICAO CHI Callsign COUGAR
Founded	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Commenced operations	1987
Hubs	St. John's, Newfoundland Halifax, Nova Scotia
Destinations	Hibernia GBS White Rose oil field Terra Nova
Parent company	VIH Aviation Group
Headquarters	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Key people	Ken Norie, President and CEO Hank Williams, General Manager[1]
Website	www.cougar.ca/

Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a St. John's based commercial helicopter company servicing offshore oil and gas fields off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Cougar has permanent facilities in St. John's and Halifax.

Services

Sikorsky S-92 landing at Ilulissat Airport, Greenland.

Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and ships located off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the:

• • Hibernia Field
  • Terra Nova Field
  • White Rose Field
  • Hebron-Ben Nevis Field
  • Deep Panuke Field

Fleet

Cougar Helicopter, St. Johns, NflL

Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of heavy and medium class helicopters:

• Sikorsky S-92
• Sikorsky S-76
• Sikorsky S-61N
• Bell 222U - primarily operate as Air Ambulances

Incidents and accidents

On 12 March 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of Newfoundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of the 18 people on board perished in the crash.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Oil industry helicopter carrying 18 crashes into Atlantic Ocean". CBC News. 12 March 2009. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/03/12/offshore-helicopter.html. 
2. ^ No sign of 16 missing after Canadian chopper crash (update 5). Reuters, 12 March 2009

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/03/18/service-helicopter-crash.html

External links

• Cougar Helicopters
• VIH Aviation Group