Heliswiss

Heliswiss is a Swiss helicopter company with headquarters in Berne-Belp.

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 asecond one in 2005.

Current fleet

*3 Hughes 300C (HB-XYI, HB-XYL, HB-XFQ)
*3 BH06 (HB-XLA, HB-XPQ, HB-XSI)
*2 AS350B2 (HB-XVB, HB-ZHI)
*1 AS350B3 (HB-ZEI)
*1 SA315B Lama (HB-XTD)
*2 Kamov KA-32A12 (HB-XKE, HB-ZFX)

Bases

*Bern-Belp
*Gruyères
*Gstaad (winter base)

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

Partners

*Air Grischa
*BOHAG
*Heli Gotthard
*eliticino
*Rhein-Helikopter AG
*Air Zermatt AG

External links

* [http://www.heliswiss.com/en/home/index.htm Homepage Heliswiss]
* [http://www.swissheli.com/helifleet.htm#Heliswiss Heliswiss Fleetlist]