Heliflight UK
23 May, 12On 18th May 2012 Heliflight UK Ltd, one of Gloucestershire Airport’s longest established helicopter operators left the Patriot Aerospace Group and returned to its roots.
Founder Jon Lane said ‘we’ve had an interesting couple of years as part of a larger organisation but with Patriot wanting to concentrate on its general aviation businesses at Coventry and Redhill the opportunity arose to re-acquire Heliflight and focus on what we do best, operating helicopters and teaching people to fly them.’ Jon started Heliflight at Wolverhampton in 1996 and moved into Gloucester 4 years later. Although the business was sold to Patriot in 2009 it kept its name and Jon stayed on as Manager and Chief Pilot so it’s now come full circle and he’s delighted to be back in control.
‘We’ll continue to work with the Patriot Group while we re-establish our own operating licences but will be responsible solely for the further growth of Heliflight’s business. Patriot’s former Chief Flying Instructor, Candia Blenkiron, has also stayed with us so we have a highly professional core team with unrivalled experience of helicopter operations at Gloucester.’ Heliflight operates an extensive fleet of helicopters which are available for training, charter and self-fly hire. Their training facility runs a range of ab-initio and advanced flying courses including private and commercial licences, instructor ratings and type conversions.
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