HeliHub.com is continually looking for ways to expand its coverage of registration data around the world and wea are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with Netherlands-based Rotorspot.NL to bring you the import and export data from the Canadian register.  Each month we will report on the helicopters imported to Canada, and those exported from there, including airframes manufactured in Canada which do not take up a full registration prior to departure to their destination country.

Rotorspot.NL is probably the best site on the internet for helicopter registration history, tracking the civil registration changes for every country on the planet.  For each registration allocated (over 131,000 to date), Rotorspot lists the helicopter type and serial number, as well as the full history of registrations held by that airframe – with the relevant pages updated every two months.   The website also covers current civil and military rotorcraft registers for The Netherlands (with pictures in civil register), updated regularly.  Finally it also includes miscellaneous helicopter data sets, including production lists and current civil registers. These are updated randomly and the latest addition was a production list for the Schweizer 269CBi.

HeliHub.com owner Jeremy Parkin has a long history in the research of helicopter data across the globe. Starting in 1983, he maintained a very detailed database of every helicopter in the UK, and this data was well received and widely used to market products and services to helicopter owners and operators alike. From 1987 the decision was made to expand this to cover all of Europe, and by 1991 the database was global and numbered over 100,000 airframes of both civil and military helicopter types. This data was widely marketed and sold to civil and military organisations across the world. Mr Parkin has had six helicopter books published, including five annual volumes of the most comprehensive civil helicopter directory based on the aforementioned database. Mr Parkin launched the helicopter industry’s first news website in 1999, and purchased HeliHub.com on 1st January 2010