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Bond EC225 ditching – AAIB report consistent with Bond analysis

Bond EC225 ditching – AAIB report consistent with Bond analysis

15-May-2012Source: Bond Aviation Group

Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd., one of the UK’s leading providers of energy support services concur with the initial findings of the AAIB interim Service Bulletin S2/2012 issued which indicates component failure. The bulletin states that, “An initial visual inspection of the main gearbox has identified a 360° circumferential crack on the bevel gear vertical shaft,... Read more

10-May-12 G-REDW Eurocopter EC225 off Aberdeen, UK

10-May-12 G-REDW Eurocopter EC225 off Aberdeen, UK

11-May-2012Source: Bond Offshore Helicopters

Controlled ditching in North Sea and all 14 on board into liferafts and later rescued.  The helicopter remained upright on its emergency floats.  Flight number was “Bond 88R”... Read more

Bond issue statement on North Sea ditching

Bond issue statement on North Sea ditching

11-May-2012Source: Bond Aviation Group

Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd, one of the UK’s leading providers of energy support services reports that at 12.13h today an Eurocopter EC225 helicopter (registration G-REDW) outbound from Aberdeen going to the Ensco102 Maersk Resilient platform made a controlled descent 24 nautical miles off-shore. The Captain and Co-pilot made the controlled descent and landed on the... Read more

Bond Aviation Group suffers PR failure with new website

Bond Aviation Group suffers PR failure with new website

26-Apr-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Bond Aviation Group has merged separate websites for each of its onshore and offshore operations into one Group website.  Gone are www.BondOffshoreHelicopters.com and www.BondAirServices.com – both replaced by www.BondAviationGroup.com While the intent to merge two websites into one is understandable, and the willingness to expand on the predecessor sites with a new “Media” section, the... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters take on third AW139

Bond Offshore Helicopters take on third AW139

5-Mar-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Bond Offshore Helicopters have now registered their third AgustaWestland AW139 with the UK Civil Aviation Authority.  G-PERD will join the first pair G-PERA and G-PERB which were acquired in March and May of 2011.  The alphabetic sequence was broken due to G-PERC being currently allocated to a Cameron hot air balloon, and the UK CAA... Read more

18-Jan-12 Eurocopter EC225 Aberdeen, UK

18-Jan-12 Eurocopter EC225 Aberdeen, UK

18-Jan-2012

Emergency landing made after a transmission temperature indicator came on.... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters adds another EC225

Bond Offshore Helicopters adds another EC225

4-Jan-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Yesterday, Bond Offshore Helicopters registered a new Eurocopter EC225LP helicopter with the UK Civil Aviation Authority.  Going by other similar activity in recent years, this likely means the delivery flight from the factory in Marignane started yesterday or is expected to today. Registered G-PUMR and with Eurocopter serial 2818, this example takes the current Bond... Read more

Oil & Gas UK responds to report into fatal Bond AS332 accident

Oil & Gas UK responds to report into fatal Bond AS332 accident

29-Nov-2011Source: Oil & Gas UK

Oil & Gas UK welcomes the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report published on November 24 on the tragic crash of helicopter Flight 85N  which took place off the Aberdeenshire coast on 1 April 2009. Robert Paterson, Oil & Gas UK’s health and safety director, said: “With today’s publication of the report, we remember, first... Read more

AAIB Final Report – 01-Apr-09 G-REDL Eurocopter AS332L2

AAIB Final Report – 01-Apr-09 G-REDL Eurocopter AS332L2

24-Nov-2011Source: AAIB

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) was notified of the accident by Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre (ARCC) Kinloss at 1326 hrs on 1 April 2009 and the investigation began the same day. In accordance with established international arrangements the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses Pour la Securité de l’Aviation Civile (BEA), representing the State of Manufacture... Read more

Bond signs MoU for AW139s, AW169s & AW189s

Bond signs MoU for AW139s, AW169s & AW189s

29-Sep-2011Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and Bond Aviation Group, are pleased to announce that they have signed an MoU today that will see both companies work together to establish a multi-year contract covering the purchase of AW139, AW169 and AW189 helicopters for offshore oil and gas support, HEMS, SAR and emergency service missions, together with support... Read more

RH Bodyworks branches out into helicopter painting

RH Bodyworks branches out into helicopter painting

28-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com

RH Bodyworks (Helitech stand 1715) is expanding its portfolio by starting in spraying helicopters.  Thus far it has completed an AgustaWestland AW139 for Bond Offshore Helicopters (see below) and a respray of the tail boom of the Essex Police EC135T2+. Part of the Roy Humphrey Group, RH Bodyworks are based on the old Eye Airfield... Read more

Bristow introduces TCAS2 to S92 and S76C++ fleets on North Sea

Bristow introduces TCAS2 to S92 and S76C++ fleets on North Sea

22-Aug-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Bristow Helicopters has recently begun using the TCAS2 traffic collision avoidance system on one of its seven North Sea based S92s on a flight from Scatsa to an offshore rig.  All seven of its UK Sikorsky S92 fleet – six based at Scatsa and one at Aberdeen – are expected to have the system installed... Read more

BBC profile Bond Offshore Helicopters

BBC profile Bond Offshore Helicopters

17-Jun-2011Source: BBC

Bond Offshore Helicopters are profiled in this article run today on the BBC as part of their lead-in to the Paris Air Show... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters wins £50m contract

Bond Offshore Helicopters wins £50m contract

6-Jun-2011Source: Bond Offshore Helicopters

[Note: We run the press release from Bond below verbatim.  However, we have been reporting this since 1st February 2011 – see here!] Bond Offshore Helicopters, part of the Gloucestershire-based Bond Aviation Group, has won a £50m contract to supply oil and gas company Perenco with two new Agusta Westland AW139 aircrafts. Bond has been... Read more

North Sea flights cancelled due to ash cloud

North Sea flights cancelled due to ash cloud

24-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com

As a number of airlines including British Airways, Flybe and Loganair cancel flights, North Sea helicopter operators appear to be following suit.  Bond Offshore Helicopters has already cancelled return flights for BP from Aberdeen to both “Well Enhancer” and “Island Constructor”, as well as another return flight for ConocoPhilips from Aberdeen to jackup rig “Ensco... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters register second AW139

Bond Offshore Helicopters register second AW139

13-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com

The second AW139 for Bond Offshore Helicopters is now registered in the UK as G-PERB.  This is the second aircraft for operations on the Southern North Sea for Perenco, and will be based at Norwich.  There are reports of Bond acquiring a total of four AW139s, two leased from Era Helicopters – these first two... Read more

AW139 rolled out in full Bond Offshore colours

AW139 rolled out in full Bond Offshore colours

5-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Bond Offshore Helicopters are due to start operating the AW139 on offshore operations to the Southern North Sea soon.  A key customer in this region of gas fields is Perenco, for which Bond will fly a pair of AW139s, registered G-PERA and PERB picking up the first three letters of oil company’s name. On delivery,... Read more

Tragedy pair suing Bond Offshore Helicopters for £4 Million

Tragedy pair suing Bond Offshore Helicopters for £4 Million

3-May-2011Source: Press & Journal

The partners of two crewmen killed in the April 2009 North Sea helicopter disaster are taking legal action worth more than £4million.  Captain Paul Burnham, 31, and co-pilot Richard Menzies, 24, died along with 14 oil workers when their Super Puma helicopter crashed off Peterhead on its return from BP’s Miller platform.... Read more

World Helicopters acquires Bond Aviation Group for €300m

World Helicopters acquires Bond Aviation Group for €300m

2-May-2011Source: World Helicopters

Bond Aviation Group becomes an integral part of World Helicopters, together with the Inaer Helicopter Company and Australian Helicopters. Creates the world leader in the emergency helicopter services industry. Creates a leading player in the international oil and gas helicopter services industry. World Helicopters will operate ca. 360 aircrafts (rotary and fixed wing). World Helicopters,... Read more

18-Apr-11 G-REDG Eurocopter AS365N3 Norwich, UK

18-Apr-11 G-REDG Eurocopter AS365N3 Norwich, UK

18-Apr-2011Source: Eurocopter

Engine fire while taxying for take-off to offshore rig.  Fire put out on the ground... Read more

Acquisition #1 – Bond Aviation Group sold to INAER’s private equity owners

Acquisition #1 – Bond Aviation Group sold to INAER’s private equity owners

28-Mar-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Bond Aviation Group, the UK company encompassing the onshore operator Bond Air Service and its sister company Bond Offshore Helicopters, is set to be sold by Stephen and Peter Bond for a figure thought to be around £300 million (approx $480M).  The buyers are the two private equity groups that own Spanish operator INAER, which... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters signs a new SBH contract with Turbomeca

Bond Offshore Helicopters signs a new SBH contract with Turbomeca

9-Mar-2011Source: Turbomeca

British oil & gas helicopter support operator Bond Offshore Helicopters signed a new Support-by-the-Hour® contract with Turbomeca UK for their four new AS365N3 Dauphins, powered by the Arriel engine. The helicopters’ Arriel 2C turbines will be maintained by Turbomeca UK which supports nearly 700 engines powering British and Irish-owned customers’ helicopters. Two of the new... Read more

07-Feb-11 Aberdeen, UK

07-Feb-11 Aberdeen, UK

7-Feb-2011

It was understood a small amount of excess fuel ignited when the Bond helicopter’s engines were starting up.  We expect it was an AS332L2 or EC225, although Bond also operate AS365M3 and AW139 helicopters... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters prepare for AW139 operations

Bond Offshore Helicopters prepare for AW139 operations

1-Feb-2011Source: HeliHub.com

Yesterday, Bond Offshore Helicopters registered their first AW139 helicopter with teh UK CAA – it is G-PERA which reflects it being contracted to the independent oil & gas company Perenco.  Previously this company’s operations were supported by an AW139 from CHC.  The AW139, which will be joined by a second prior to the contract start... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters turnover up 13% at £61M, profits up 12%

Bond Offshore Helicopters turnover up 13% at £61M, profits up 12%

10-Jan-2011Source: Aberdeen Press & Journal

Recently released accounts show turnover at £61.09 million for the year to 31st March 2010, up 13%, and pre-tax profits at £3.572 million, up 12%... Read more

Bond Aviation Group seeks investor to expand

Bond Aviation Group seeks investor to expand

8-Nov-2010Source: Telegraph

Bond Aviation has hired advisers to look at strategic options for the business, said sources. The family-owned company is understood to be interested in selling 30 to 60% to expand... Read more

UK: Helicopter task group head honoured after disaster

UK: Helicopter task group head honoured after disaster

21-Oct-2010Source: BBC

Robert Paterson, industry body Oil and Gas UK’s health, safety and employment issues director, said: “Everyone in the oil and gas industry really appreciates the work Bob put in to make these safety improvements actually happen.”... Read more

UK: Bond Aviation launch £1m helicopter design department

UK: Bond Aviation launch £1m helicopter design department

29-Jul-2010Source: Stroud Life

Bond Aviation Group, Britain’s fastest growing privately owned helicopter service provider, has unveiled a new £1 million Design and Completions Department at its UK headquarters... Read more

Bond signs a new SBH® Contract with Turbomeca UK

Bond signs a new SBH® Contract with Turbomeca UK

3-Jun-2010Source: Turbomeca

British oil & gas helicopter support operator Bond Offshore Helicopters signed a new Support-by-the-Hour® contract with Turbomeca UK for their four new AS365N3 Dauphins, powered by the Arriel engine. The helicopters’ Arriel 2C turbines will be maintained by Turbomeca UK which supports nearly 700 engines powering British and Irish-owned customers’ helicopters. Two of the new... Read more

Bond starts new Perenco contract in Southern North Sea

Bond starts new Perenco contract in Southern North Sea

3-Jun-2010Source: Bond Offshore Helicopters

[The following press release from Bond supplements HeliHub’s own story regarding the delivery of these two 365s] The latest additions to Bond Offshore Helicopters’ fleet of aircraft have entered service on behalf of new client, Perenco (UK) Ltd, in the UK sector of the southern North Sea. Crew change flights with two AS365N3 Dauphin aircraft... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters takes delivery of two 365N3 Dauphins

Bond Offshore Helicopters takes delivery of two 365N3 Dauphins

1-Jun-2010Source: HeliHub.com

In the last few days, Bond Offshore Helicopters have registered two new AS365N3 Dauphins, G-REDG (serial 6907) and G-REDH (6911).  The former was first registered in the UK on Thursday 27th and delivered into the UK the following day.  The latter was (most unusually) first registered on a UK public holiday yesterda, and the HeliHub.com... Read more

Icelandic volcano cancels North Sea rig support flights

Icelandic volcano cancels North Sea rig support flights

15-Apr-2010Source: HeliHub.com

The eruption under a glacier in the Eyjafjallajoekull area of Iceland is the second in Iceland in less than a month. Aberdeen Airport, central to the majority of North Sea oil rig support helicopter flights, closed at Midnight and the latest update at 04.45 local states “Following advice from the Met Office, the airspace around... Read more

Super Puma’s 16 crash victims remembered one year on

Super Puma’s 16 crash victims remembered one year on

7-Apr-2010Source: BBC

The 16 men who died when a Super Puma helicopter crashed into the North Sea have been remembered on the first anniversary of the tragedy.... Read more

Bond Offshore signs a new SBH® Contract with Turbomeca UK

Bond Offshore signs a new SBH® Contract with Turbomeca UK

9-Mar-2010Source: Turbomeca

British oil & gas helicopter support operator Bond Offshore Helicopters signed a new Support-by-the-Hour® contract with Turbomeca UK for their four new AS365N3 Dauphins, powered by the Arriel engine. The helicopters’ Arriel 2C turbines will be maintained by Turbomeca UK which supports nearly 700 engines powering British and Irish-owned customers’ helicopters. Two of the new... Read more

Bond North Sea AS332 crash families aid 11 charities

Bond North Sea AS332 crash families aid 11 charities

15-Jan-2010Source: Scotsman

More than £300,000 raised in memory of the 16 men killed in a Super Puma helicopter crash in the North Sea last year is to be distributed to 11 charities chosen by the bereaved families. Funds have also been set aside for a “symbol of remembrance” in a public garden in Aberdeen... Read more

Bond returns to Blackpool to support Centrica's gas rigs

Bond returns to Blackpool to support Centrica's gas rigs

6-Jan-2010Source: HeliHub.com editorial team

To start the new year, Bond Offshore Helicopters took over the rig support contract out of Blackpool Airport for gas firm Centrica.  Bond have now moved in with two brand new bright red AS365N3 Dauphins, registered G-REDE and G-REDF, operating initially from temporary accommodation at this UK airport.  They had won the contract from CHC... Read more

Bond wins 5+ year Perenco contract in Southern North Sea

Bond wins 5+ year Perenco contract in Southern North Sea

29-Dec-2009Source: EDP24

Aberdeen-based Bond Offshore Helicopters has won a five-year deal with global energy company Perenco, which will see Bond provide helicopter services to Southern North Sea rigs from Norwich International airport.... Read more

Bond Aviation Group join UK's fastest growing businesses

Bond Aviation Group join UK's fastest growing businesses

8-Dec-2009Source: South West Business

TWO county companies have stormed into a national league table for the UK’s fastest growing businesses. Gloucester-based online book retailer, The Book Depository has made the Fast Track 100 list for the second year running ranked 55th. And it has been joined by Staverton-based helicopter operator Bond Aviation in 80th position.... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 North Sea ditching report delayed

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 North Sea ditching report delayed

26-Nov-2009Source: STV

An official report to determine why a helicopter with 18 people on board ditched into the North Sea has been delayed, the Government announced on Tuesday.... Read more

Bond Aviation Group secures five long-term contracts, adds 80 jobs

Bond Aviation Group secures five long-term contracts, adds 80 jobs

25-Sep-2009Source: BBC

Eighty new jobs have been created at a Gloucestershire-based helicopter specialists after it secured five new long-term contracts worth £153m... Read more

Bond retires flight number assigned to Super Puma in offshore accident

Bond retires flight number assigned to Super Puma in offshore accident

14-Aug-2009Source: Aberdeen Press & Journal

Bond Offshore Helicopters has confirmed that it has retired the flight number given to the aircraft involved in one of the oil industry’s worst disasters earlier this year.... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters to resume rig support flights for BP after crash

Bond Offshore Helicopters to resume rig support flights for BP after crash

13-May-2009Source: BBC

Bond Offshore Helicopters will resume crew change flights for BP from Monday in the wake of the North Sea helicopter disaster, it has been announced... Read more

01-Apr-09 G-REDL Eurocopter AS332L2 11m E of Peterhead, UK (16F)

01-Apr-09 G-REDL Eurocopter AS332L2 11m E of Peterhead, UK (16F)

1-Apr-2009

1-Apr-09 G-REDL Eurocopter AS332 11m E of Peterhead, UK... Read more

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 "crashed and was not ditched" in the North Sea

Bond Offshore Helicopters EC225 "crashed and was not ditched" in the North Sea

10-Mar-2009Source: Press & Journal

Leaked report suggests cloudbase significantly lower than expected... Read more

18-Feb-09 G-REDU Eurocopter EC225 ETAP field, 125 miles E Aberdeen, UK

18-Feb-09 G-REDU Eurocopter EC225 ETAP field, 125 miles E Aberdeen, UK

18-Feb-2009

18-Feb-09 G-REDU Eurocopter EC225 ETAP field, 125 miles E Aberdeen, UK... Read more

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