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LCI orders six EC175s; becomes an EC225e launch customer, ordering 15

LCI orders six EC175s; becomes an EC225e launch customer, ordering 15

26-Feb-2014Source: Airbus Helicopters

Lease Corporation International (LCI), the Libra Group’s aviation leasing arm, will acquire as many as 21 new Airbus Helicopters rotorcraft in a contract involving both the next-generation EC175 and the newly-unveiled EC225e. The total contract value is estimated in commercial terms to be around US$645 million with delivery scheduled to commence in 2016. The major... Read more

Vector Aerospace signs special Bypass Plus program with Starlite Aviation

Vector Aerospace signs special Bypass Plus program with Starlite Aviation

26-Feb-2014Source: Vector Aerospace

Vector Financial Services, the leasing division of Vector Aerospace Corporation (“Vector”), a global independent provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service, is pleased to announce the signing of a special Bypass Plus program with Starlite Aviation Group, an enhanced offering of the By the Hour Support Program now covering engines. Starlite is a... Read more

Waypoint Leasing to acquire 12 EC225 and 25 EC145T2

Waypoint Leasing to acquire 12 EC225 and 25 EC145T2

26-Feb-2014Source: Waypoint Leasing

Two major Waypoint Leasing orders with Airbus Helicopters were announced today as the global helicopter lessor intends to acquire 37 EC225 and EC145 T2 rotorcraft. These key transactions, Waypoint’s first deliveries in 2014, were detailed at the 2014 Heli-Expo industry convention in Anaheim, California, where Airbus Helicopters President Guillaume Faury and Waypoint Leasing CEO Ed... Read more

Milestone signs for another eight S92s

Milestone signs for another eight S92s

25-Feb-2014Source: Sikorsky

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation announced today at Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo that Milestone has increased its S-92 order book by eight units. Sikorsky is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). Milestone is already one of the world’s largest S-92 owners and with today’s announcement, it has... Read more

Lobo Leasing announces $250M Master Lease Facility Agreement with CHC

Lobo Leasing announces $250M Master Lease Facility Agreement with CHC

25-Feb-2014Source: Lobo Leasing

Lobo Leasing Limited (“Lobo Leasing”) a global commercial helicopter leasing company are pleased to announce that they have entered into a master lease arrangement with CHC Helicopter (CHC), a leading provider of crew transport, search-and-rescue and MRO services to the world-wide helicopter market. The facility provides for both the sale and leaseback and new-delivery lease... Read more

LCI commits to 14 more AW139s and 4 more AW189s

LCI commits to 14 more AW139s and 4 more AW189s

25-Feb-2014Source: LCI

Lease Corporation International (LCI), the aviation leasing arm of the Libra Group, has announced a further multiyear contract with AgustaWestland for up to a further 18 helicopters worth over US$280 million. The order comprises commitments for up to fourteen AW139 intermediate helicopters and up to an additional four AW189 twin-engine helicopters. These helicopters, which will... Read more

Waypoint Leasing to Acquire Assets from Helicopter Transportation Group

Waypoint Leasing to Acquire Assets from Helicopter Transportation Group

24-Feb-2014Source: Waypoint Leasing

Waypoint Leasing, a leading global helicopter leasing company, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Helicopter Transportation Group AS (“HTG”), a helicopter lessor based in Oslo, Norway, to acquire certain assets of HTG, including 23 aircraft and affiliated contracts.  Waypoint has already taken delivery of 7 of the 23 aircraft and expects to... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group Surpasses US$ 2.2 Billion in Helicopters

Milestone Aviation Group Surpasses US$ 2.2 Billion in Helicopters

24-Feb-2014Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, today provided an operating update to the market in advance of Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo which includes information as of December 31, 2013. Milestone’s fleet, which ranges from light-single to heavy-twin helicopters, now includes 143 aircraft valued at more than US$ 2.2 billion. The aircraft are... Read more

Waypoint Leasing Adds Senior Team With Key New Hires

Waypoint Leasing Adds Senior Team With Key New Hires

24-Feb-2014Source: Waypoint Leasing

Waypoint Leasing, a leading global helicopter leasing company, today announced the appointment of four industry veterans to its senior team: Ian Gurekian, Chief Risk Officer David Powell, Vice President Sales Thomas Kelly, Vice President Tax Shane Leonard, Technical Manager Ed Washecka, CEO of Waypoint, said, “We continue to ramp up Waypoint’s management team with some... Read more

Crowded jet market leads GE to consider helicopter leasing

Crowded jet market leads GE to consider helicopter leasing

16-Feb-2014Source: Cincinatti.com

A potential move into helicopters, which are widely used in the oil and gas industry, could be interesting for GE Capital Aviation Services as new money from parties such as private-equity investors flows into aircraft leasing  See full story... Read more

Lobo Leasing adds $200M from GSO Capital Partners for helicopter leasing expansion

Lobo Leasing adds $200M from GSO Capital Partners for helicopter leasing expansion

5-Feb-2014Source: Lobo Leasing

Lobo Leasing Limited (“Lobo Leasing”) today announced that it has partnered with GSO Capital Partners LP (“GSO Capital”), a division of Blackstone (NYSE: BX), to further build its global helicopter leasing company. Affiliates of GSO Capital have committed $200 million of equity capital to Lobo Leasing to fulfill the leasing needs of helicopter operators providing... Read more

New kid on the block – Infinity Helicopter Leasing to focus on single and light twins

New kid on the block – Infinity Helicopter Leasing to focus on single and light twins

30-Jan-2014Source: Infinity

Perella Weinberg Partners Asset Based Value Strategy, a leading alternative asset management strategy and a unit of Perella Weinberg Partners, and Hawke Aerospace Holdings, LLC (“HAH”), announced today that they have launched Infinity Helicopter Leasing, LLC, a new helicopter equipment leasing venture. Infinity Helicopter Leasing will focus primarily on the light (single and twin) and... Read more

KKR invests over $100M in Lease Corp International’s helicopter business

KKR invests over $100M in Lease Corp International’s helicopter business

17-Jan-2014Source: LCI

Lease Corporation International (“LCI”), a Libra Group company, and KKR Financial Holdings LLC (NYSE: KFN) (“KFN”), a specialty finance company managed by a subsidiary of KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE: KKR), today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which KFN has agreed to invest in excess of $100 million in LCI... Read more

Lease Corporation International takes delivery of 5th AW139

Lease Corporation International takes delivery of 5th AW139

16-Jan-2014Source: LCI

Lease Corporation International’s (LCI) helicopter division has taken delivery of its fifth AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter, and has placed the aircraft on lease with Bond Offshore Helicopters (Bond) in Aberdeen, Scotland. The delivery follows the agreement last year of a long term lease between LCI and Bond’s parent company Avincis Group – a leading global provider... Read more

Milestone closes US$200M Unsecured Revolving Credit Line

Milestone closes US$200M Unsecured Revolving Credit Line

10-Jan-2014Source: Milestone

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today that it has closed on an unsecured US$ 200 million revolving credit line. The new facility increases Milestone’s unsecured borrowing capacity to US$ 450 million and revolving borrowing capacity to US$ 800 million. Today’s announcement follows on the heels of the company’s January 7,... Read more

Milestone completes US$575M Private Placement Debt Financing

Milestone completes US$575M Private Placement Debt Financing

8-Jan-2014Source: Milestone

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today that it has successfully completed the private placement of US$ 575 million of senior secured notes. The company intends to use the proceeds to fund the continued expansion of its business and to refinance existing debt. The senior secured notes, which have an average... Read more

Waypoint Leasing announce 13 helicopter AW139/S92 deal with CHC

Waypoint Leasing announce 13 helicopter AW139/S92 deal with CHC

13-Dec-2013Source: Waypoint Leasing

Waypoint Leasing (Ireland) Limited (“Waypoint”), a leading global helicopter leasing company, today announced that it has reached an agreement with CHC Helicopter (“CHC”), the world’s largest helicopter services company specializing in transportation to offshore oil and gas platforms, to lease to CHC 13 new technology medium and heavy aircraft, which include the Sikorsky S-92 and... Read more

Element Financial acquires second helicopter lease portfolio

Element Financial acquires second helicopter lease portfolio

10-Dec-2013Source: Element Financial

Element Financial Corporation (TSX: EFN) (“Element” or “the Company”), one of North America’s leading equipment finance companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of GE Capital in the US to acquire a portfolio of finance assets secured by individual helicopters operated by a diversified base of customers across a variety of... Read more

Waypoint Leasing to triple workforce in Ireland

Waypoint Leasing to triple workforce in Ireland

18-Nov-2013Source: Irish Times

Alan Jenkins, the company’s chief financial officer, told The Irish Times that Waypoint plans to increase its headcount in Limerick from seven currently to 20 by the end of 2014.  See full story... Read more

Element Financial Corp to acquire US helicopter portfolio

Element Financial Corp to acquire US helicopter portfolio

14-Nov-2013Source: Element Financial

Element Financial Corporation (TSX: EFN) (“Element” or “the Company”), one ofNorth America’s leading independent equipment finance companies, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a $250 million portfolio of finance assets secured by individual helicopters operated by a diversified base of customers across a variety of industries in the U.S. “This transaction will provide... Read more

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing contracts for two S-92s and two S-76Ds

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing contracts for two S-92s and two S-76Ds

29-Oct-2013Source: Sikorsky

Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing, the helicopter operating leasing business of Macquarie Group, has contracted to acquire two S-92A(TM) and two S-76D(TM) helicopters from Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. along with an unspecified number of options to acquire additional aircraft. The four new helicopters will be configured initially for the oil and gas service markets. Sikorsky Aircraft is a... Read more

Waypoint Leasing appoints Managing Director of Capital Markets & Treasury

Waypoint Leasing appoints Managing Director of Capital Markets & Treasury

29-Oct-2013Source: Waypoint Leasing

Waypoint Leasing (Ireland) Limited (“Waypoint”), a leading global helicopter leasing company, today announced that Oliver Althoff, former Director of Transportation Lending at CIT Group, will join Waypoint as Managing Director of Capital Markets & Treasury, effective November 11, 2013. Mr. Althoff will be responsible for leading the development and execution of Waypoint’s debt financing strategy... Read more

Milestone finances AW109SP GrandNew for Sloane Helicopters

Milestone finances AW109SP GrandNew for Sloane Helicopters

22-Oct-2013Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today that it has financed the delivery of an AgustaWestland AW109 GrandNew to Sloane Helicopters. Sloane, a UK-based provider of helicopter sales and services, will use the helicopter for the UK’s East Midland Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS), the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance... Read more

AgustaWestland and Milestone agree historic multi-aircraft framework agreement

AgustaWestland and Milestone agree historic multi-aircraft framework agreement

25-Sep-2013Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, today announced at Helitech International that Milestone Aviation Group has agreed a multi-aircraft, multi-year Framework Agreement for the purchase of a significant number of helicopters in a combination of the AW169, AW139 and AW189 models from the AgustaWestland Family of new generation helicopters. These aircraft will enter into service globally in... Read more

Eurocopter and Waypoint Leasing establish comprehensive commercial and marketing partnership

Eurocopter and Waypoint Leasing establish comprehensive commercial and marketing partnership

25-Sep-2013Source: Eurocopter

An agreement signed by Eurocopter and Waypoint Leasing offers value and flexibility to helicopter lessees through the companies’ enhanced commercial and marketing resources. The agreement, announced today at London’s Helitech International exposition, enables Waypoint to offer its client base the full capabilities of Eurocopter’s comprehensive Parts-by-the-Hour (PBH) support services. “This marks a new chapter in... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group adds industry veteran to Advisory Board

Milestone Aviation Group adds industry veteran to Advisory Board

24-Sep-2013Source: Milestone Aviation

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today that Peter Bull, the highly-regarded industry veteran and risk and asset management expert, has joined the Group’s Advisory Board. Richard Santulli, Milestone’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are delighted that Peter has joined our Advisory Board. Asset and risk management are the... Read more

Waypoint Leasing makes six appointments

Waypoint Leasing makes six appointments

23-Sep-2013Source: Waypoint Leasing

Waypoint Leasing (Ireland) Limited (“Waypoint”), a leading global helicopter leasing company, today announced the appointment of six individuals to its management team who bring key expertise to support Waypoint’s ongoing growth, including: Robert Van de Vuurst, General Counsel; Peter Dahm, Strategic Accounts Executive; Dave Gorsky, Vice President of Operations and Technical; Ken Dowling, Vice President... Read more

HAI Finance and Leasing Committee Needs Your Suggestions!

HAI Finance and Leasing Committee Needs Your Suggestions!

29-Aug-2013Source: HAI

The HAI Financing and Leasing Committee works to educate operators on the intricacies of the financing and leasing of helicopters and educates lending and financial institutions on helicopter operations and the efficacy of using helicopters as collateral. The committee is in the planning stages for its full-day seminar, to be held at HAI HELI-EXPO 2014... Read more

Milestone closes US$300M credit facility to acquire/lease Bristow aircraft

Milestone closes US$300M credit facility to acquire/lease Bristow aircraft

31-Jul-2013Source: Milestone Aviation

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today that it has closed a new US$300 million credit facility. The company will use the proceeds to acquire and lease helicopters valued at US$400 million to affiliates of Bristow Group Inc. The assets include Sikorsky S-92’s, Eurocopter EC225’s and AgustaWestland AW189 and AW139 aircraft.... Read more

Industry heavyweights launch Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing

Industry heavyweights launch Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing

16-Jul-2013Source: Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group (“Macquarie”) (ASX: MQG; ADR: MQBKY) today announced the launch of Macquarie Rotorcraft Leasing, a helicopter operating leasing business that will focus on the growing, worldwide demand for commercial helicopters servicing offshore oil and gas, medical transport, search and rescue, and the executive transport markets. “We are pleased to be able to build upon... Read more

Cobham buys Bristow out of FB joint venture for £74 million

Cobham buys Bristow out of FB joint venture for £74 million

15-Jul-2013Source: Cobham

Cobham plc (‘Cobham’ or ‘the Group’) today announces that it has completed the acquisition of the 50% shareholding that it did not already own in FB Heliservices Ltd, FB Leasing Limited and FBS Limited (together ‘FBH’), from its long standing joint venture partner, Bristow Helicopters Limited (‘Bristow’).  The transaction comprises cash consideration of £74 million... Read more

An inside look at Milestone and the first ever helicopter export credit bond

An inside look at Milestone and the first ever helicopter export credit bond

20-Jun-2013Source: Corporate Jet Investor

Milestone launched the largest helicopter export credit deal ever in 2013. It was a transaction of many firsts: Milestone’s first export credit guaranteed deal; the US Export-Import Bank’s first bond secured by helicopters; and Deutsche Bank’s first Ex-Im guaranteed bond issuance.   See full story... Read more

Helipartner Thailand orders 10 Eurocopter AS350B3e to lease out

Helipartner Thailand orders 10 Eurocopter AS350B3e to lease out

19-Jun-2013Source: Eurocopter

Helipartner Thailand’s order of 10 AS350 B3e highlights the effectiveness and capabilities of this Ecureuil family helicopter to meet the increasing demand for light helicopters in the ASEAN region. The acquisition of 10 Eurocopter enhanced high-performance AS350 B3e helicopters by Helipartner Thailand responds to increased demand for high-performance utility helicopters across ASEAN countries in support... Read more

LCI to lease two AW139s to WestStar

LCI to lease two AW139s to WestStar

16-Jun-2013Source: LCI

Lease Corporation International (LCI) announces its delivery of two AgustaWestland helicopters to Malaysian operator Weststar Aviation Services in a long-term lease. The new AW139 helicopters, valued at over $30 million, will be initially operated under contract to Tullow Oil. They have both been delivered this week. The two AW139 helicopters will be used to support... Read more

Ex-Im Bank guarantees $187M for S92 exports to Milestone Aviation Group

Ex-Im Bank guarantees $187M for S92 exports to Milestone Aviation Group

4-Jun-2013Source: Ex-Im Bank

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is providing a $187.4 million guarantee of a capital-markets bond to finance the export of Sikorsky S-92® helicopters to The Milestone Aviation Group Ltd. of Dublin, Ireland. The transaction is Ex-Im Bank’s largest financing of U.S.-manufactured commercial helicopter exports and the agency’s first support of these... Read more

Soros and Dell back Waypoint helicopter leasing group

Soros and Dell back Waypoint helicopter leasing group

6-May-2013Source: Waypoint Leasing

The funds of two of the world’s highest-profile individual investors – Michael Dell and George Soros – are betting on future high levels of offshore oil production by investing dog reds of millions of dollars in a helicopter leasing company. Read the whole article here: Financial Times... Read more

Milestone Surpasses $1.3 Billion in Aircraft

Milestone Surpasses $1.3 Billion in Aircraft

19-Apr-2013Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, today circulated its full year 2012 financial results to investors and provided an update to the market. Milestone’s young fleet, which ranges from light-twin to heavy helicopters, now includes over 90 aircraft from AgustaWestland, Bell, Eurocopter and Sikorsky valued at over $1.3 billion. Additionally, the company... Read more

MassDevelopment issues tax-exempt $8M lease for Boston Medflight EC145

MassDevelopment issues tax-exempt $8M lease for Boston Medflight EC145

12-Apr-2013Source: Boston Medflight

MassDevelopment has issued an $8 million tax-exempt lease on behalf of New England Life Flight, Inc. in Bedford, which does business as Boston MedFlight. The emergency transport service will use lease proceeds to buy a medically configured helicopter that will replace an existing helicopter to transport ill and injured patients. Lease proceeds will also finance... Read more

Waypoint Leasing signs for GrandNew, AW139, AW169 and AW189

Waypoint Leasing signs for GrandNew, AW139, AW169 and AW189

7-Mar-2013Source: AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a multi-year multi-aircraft agreement with Waypoint Leasing LLC (“Waypoint”) for GrandNew, AW169, AW139 and AW189 helicopters. The agreement signed today at Heli-Expo by Ed Washecka, Waypoint Leasing’s CEO, and Emilio Dalmasso, AgustaWestland’s Senior VP Commercial Business, includes an initial firm contract for four... Read more

Eurocopter and Milestone Aviation Group getting closer together

Eurocopter and Milestone Aviation Group getting closer together

6-Mar-2013Source: Eurocopter

An innovative agreement signed by Eurocopter and Milestone Aviation Group today brings these two industry leaders together for cooperative marketing of Milestone’s growing helicopter portfolio, backed by Eurocopter’s comprehensive Parts-by-the-Hour (PBH) support services. This agreement enables Eurocopter to provide its customers and operators commercial access to Milestone’s inventory of helicopters with all of the financial... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group and Turbomeca Launch Groundbreaking Comprehensive Partnership

Milestone Aviation Group and Turbomeca Launch Groundbreaking Comprehensive Partnership

6-Mar-2013Source: Turbomeca

Leading helicopter engine manufacturer Turbomeca (Safran) and Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today at Heli-Expo a first-of-its-kind partnership, offering unique services to Milestone customers while expanding Turbomeca’s customer base. A culmination of efforts announced last year to develop novel engine support solutions and services for Milestone’s lease customers around the... Read more

Milestone orders five EC175s and more EC225s

Milestone orders five EC175s and more EC225s

6-Mar-2013Source: Eurocopter

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, today announced an order for 14 additional Eurocopter EC225 twin-engine helicopters, which will join the 16 EC225s ordered last year – along with the company’s initial EC175 booking, covering five of these next-generation aircraft. This new order for the two Eurocopter helicopter types brings Milestone’s EC225... Read more

Sikorsky Announces Sale of 30 Helicopters to Milestone Aviation Group

Sikorsky Announces Sale of 30 Helicopters to Milestone Aviation Group

5-Mar-2013Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced that they have entered into agreements to sell 23 S-92® helicopters and seven S-76D™ helicopters to Milestone Aviation Group, a global finance company that leases helicopters to high-quality helicopter operators. The agreements also include options to buy up to an additional 14 S-92 and 10 S-76D helicopters. Sikorsky, a subsidiary... Read more

Milestone surpasses $1 Billion in leased helicopters

Milestone surpasses $1 Billion in leased helicopters

5-Mar-2013Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today at Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo its portfolio of leased helicopters has surpassed $1 billion. Milestone is the first company ever to achieve this landmark. Since the company’s launch in August 2010, Milestone has closed more than 75 helicopter leases with 21 world-class operators in... Read more

Obituary – Helicopter leasing specialist Matthew L. Spitzer

Obituary – Helicopter leasing specialist Matthew L. Spitzer

20-Feb-2013Source: HAI

Matthew L. Spitzer, musician, entrepreneur, and flying enthusiast, passed away in Hayward, Calif. on February 8, 2013. Matthew was born June 20, 1929, in Pittsburgh, Pa., and raised in Niagara Falls, N.Y. A talented professional pianist with perfect pitch, Matthew played in the Niagara Falls/Buffalo area both solo and with The Billy Howells Band. Matthew... Read more

WFW advised CHC on $202M operating lease facility

WFW advised CHC on $202M operating lease facility

20-Jan-2013Source: WFW

Watson, Farley & Williams (“WFW”), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce that it has advised CHC Helicopter on an operating lease facility of up to US$202m with Milestone Aviation, for up to 12 helicopters (including Sikorsky, Eurocopter and AgustaWestland helicopters), its third facility with Milestone. The team, led by partner Nicola Davies,... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group proposes offering of $250M unsecured notes

Milestone Aviation Group proposes offering of $250M unsecured notes

7-Dec-2012Source: Milestone Aviation Group

The Milestone Aviation Group Limited (“Milestone”) today announced that it intends to offer (the “Offering”) $250 million in aggregate principal amount of its Senior Notes due 2017 (the “Notes”). Milestone intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to finance the purchase of aircraft and to refinance previously purchased aircraft. The remainder, if any,... Read more

UTair and Region Leasing complete joint project

UTair and Region Leasing complete joint project

6-Dec-2012Source: UTair

UTair Aviation and REGION Leasing, part of the REGION Group, have finalized a financing agreement for the purchase of a Mi-171 helicopter. The delivery will take place in December 2012. UTair and REGION have a long history of successful cooperation on the bond and capital markets. “REGION has acted as an organizer of UTair bond... Read more

Company Profile – Milestone Aviation

Company Profile – Milestone Aviation

12-Oct-2012Source: Columbus Dispatch

Milestone purchases helicopters and leases them to commercial operators around the world, especially those involved in offshore oil-and-gas exploration.  The company’s fleet already includes more than 60 helicopters worth about $750 million (see full story)... Read more

Milestone lease two GrandNews to Elilombarda

Milestone lease two GrandNews to Elilombarda

24-Aug-2012Source: HeliHub.com

Milestone Aviation Group, the Dublin-based helicopter lessor, has recently delivered two new AgustaWestland AW109SP Grand New to Italian operator Elilombardia. Likely for tax reasons, the aircraft were initially registered in their name for a couple of days in mid-July in the Isle of Man, as seen in our photos here.  They were then moved to... Read more

Milestone signs for 19 Sikorsky S92s

Milestone signs for 19 Sikorsky S92s

15-Aug-2012Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the global leader in helicopter leasing, announced today that it has signed a contract to purchase nineteen additional Sikorsky S-92® helicopters. These aircraft are in addition to the three S-92 aircraft Milestone purchased from Sikorsky in February 2012. The first two aircraft are scheduled for completed delivery in late 2012 and the... Read more

French Navy returns second Dauphin to NHV

French Navy returns second Dauphin to NHV

1-May-2012Source: HeliHub.com

The French Navy has completed its lease of a AS365N2 Dauphin – and returned it to Belgian operator NHV.  The helicopter was noted outside NHV’s base at Ostend on Saturday, covered over and with its main rotor blades removed.  It is expected to be repainted back from the grey/red French Navy scheme to the standard... Read more

Lease Corporation International makes appointment to cover the Americas

Lease Corporation International makes appointment to cover the Americas

24-Apr-2012Source: Lease Corporation International

Lease Corporation International (LCI) has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Esteban Tripodi as Executive Vice President, Americas. Mr Tripodi, who joins LCI this week, will be based in the company’s New York office. Working across the marketing and capital markets divisions for both helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, his primary focus... Read more

Turbomeca creates partnership to provide unique benefits for Milestone’s leasing customers

Turbomeca creates partnership to provide unique benefits for Milestone’s leasing customers

13-Feb-2012Source: Turbomeca

Leading helicopter engine manufacturer Turbomeca (Safran group), and Milestone Aviation Group, the world’s pre-eminent helicopter lessor, announced at Heli-Expo today the beginning of an expansive partnership between the two companies. Through the Global Support Partnership, Turbomeca and Milestone are jointly developing new engine support solutions and services for Milestone’s lease customers around the world. The... Read more

Lease Corporation International buys AW helicopters to start leasing business

Lease Corporation International buys AW helicopters to start leasing business

13-Feb-2012Source: Libra Group

Lease Corporation International (LCI), the aviation division of global conglomerate the Libra Group, and AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, have signed an agreement covering the purchase of a fleet of AW139, AW169 and AW189 helicopters for a new division being set up by the lessor. The related contract, which also includes options, is valued in excess... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group signs for three S-92s

Milestone Aviation Group signs for three S-92s

12-Feb-2012Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today announced that Milestone Aviation Group, a global finance company that buys and leases helicopters to operators worldwide, has signed a contract to purchase three 
S-92® helicopters. Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), announced the purchase at HELI-EXPO®, the world’s largest tradeshow dedicated to the international helicopter community. “In a very short time, Milestone Aviation... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group signs for 16 Eurocopter EC225

Milestone Aviation Group signs for 16 Eurocopter EC225

12-Feb-2012Source: Eurocopter

Milestone Aviation Group and Eurocopter today announced an order for 16 EC225 aircraft. These aircraft are valued at €362 million (US $480 million) and will be delivered over five years, starting in 2013. Eurocopter’s embrace of a partnership with Milestone on the EC225 is a major development for the helicopter industry. Since launching in August... Read more

UK: Castle Air add fifth AW109E on AgustaWestland contract

UK: Castle Air add fifth AW109E on AgustaWestland contract

30-Jan-2012Source: HeliHub.com

British operator Castle Air already leases four AgustaWestland AW109E back to the manufacturer for their Operational Flight Training Centre at Newquay.  Last week, Castle Air registered serial number 11084 on the British Register, having bought it from a distressed sale in Ireland.  The previous owner was the Quinn Group of companies, whose boss Sean Quinn... Read more

HAI Financing & Leasing Committee launches Best Practices Workshop

HAI Financing & Leasing Committee launches Best Practices Workshop

21-Dec-2011Source: HAI

The HAI Finance & Leasing Committee is pleased to present its first full-day interactive workshop, “Best Practices When Acquiring & Operating Helicopters,” for HELI-EXPO® attendees on Sat, Feb. 11, 2012 at the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This full-day, interactive workshop is designed to provide helicopter professionals, managers and... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group buy five EC130s

Milestone Aviation Group buy five EC130s

17-Oct-2011Source: Milestone Aviation Group

American Eurocopter and Milestone Aviation Group announced today at the Air Medical Transport Conference the sale to Milestone of five new Eurocopter EC130B4 helicopters. The order is valued at $17 million. Deliveries will take place in the second half of 2012. Milestone, the first global finance company focused exclusively on the helicopter market, will offer... Read more

British Helicopter Association Chairman joins leasing company Milestone’s advisory board

British Helicopter Association Chairman joins leasing company Milestone’s advisory board

5-Aug-2011Source: Milestone Aviation

Milestone Aviation Group, the first global finance company focused exclusively on the helicopter and private jet markets, today announced that Brian Humphries has joined the company’s Advisory Board. Mr. Humphries is a highly respected member of the global business aviation community. He started his career in the Royal Air Force and worked his way up... Read more

CHC provides update on lease agreements and FY11 results/concall

CHC provides update on lease agreements and FY11 results/concall

3-Aug-2011Source: CHC

CHC Helicopter said today it has completed agreements with all of its aircraft lessors to successfully reset the financial covenants on the company’s operating leases. “We are very pleased with the overall outcome of the negotiations and the support we received from our lessors,” said William Amelio, CHC’s president and chief executive officer. “We are... Read more

Sikorsky sells one S92 and two S76s to lessor Milestone Aviation Group

Sikorsky sells one S92 and two S76s to lessor Milestone Aviation Group

21-Jun-2011Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. announced today an agreement to sell an S-92® and two S-76C++™ helicopters to the Milestone Aviation Group, a global finance company that purchases and leases helicopters to high quality helicopter operators. Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), announced the sale at the ongoing Paris Air Show. All three aircraft are... Read more

Lobo Leasing – new Texas-based JV for helicopter leasing

Lobo Leasing – new Texas-based JV for helicopter leasing

3-Jun-2011Source: Lobo Leasing

Perella Weinberg Partners today announced that certain funds within Perella Weinberg Partners’ Asset Based Value strategy have teamed with helicopter industry veterans Howard Wolf, Bill Wolf, Bruce Mauldin and John Contas to form Lobo Leasing, LLC, a joint venture to acquire helicopter and helicopter-related assets for lease to operators. Lobo Leasing will serve as a... Read more

Russian Helicopters and VEB Leasing to partner for Latin American market

Russian Helicopters and VEB Leasing to partner for Latin American market

20-May-2011Source: Russian Helicopters

Russian rotorcraft-building holding Russian Helicopters that makes part of United Industrial Corporation OBORONPROM and leasing company VEB-leasing concluded an agreement on strategic partnership at the aviation market of Latin America, where the interest to Russian-made commercial helicopters is forecasted to grow. The signed document envisages the provision of leasing services to the Latin American companies... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group to acquire five S-76C++ helicopters

Milestone Aviation Group to acquire five S-76C++ helicopters

6-Mar-2011Source: Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Milestone Aviation Group Limited jointly announced for the first time today the scheduled deliveries of five Sikorsky S-76C++™ helicopters to Milestone in the second half of 2011 under a firm order contract signed last December. Milestone, the first global finance company focused exclusively on the helicopter and private jet markets, will... Read more

Milestone Aviation Group announces $205M of Helicopter Lease transactions

Milestone Aviation Group announces $205M of Helicopter Lease transactions

6-Mar-2011Source: Milestone Aviation Group

Milestone Aviation Group, the first global specialty finance company focused exclusively on the helicopter and private jet markets, announced today $205 million in transactions. With this announcement, which was made at the Helicopter Association International Heli-Expo, Milestone has closed on 20 new and pre-owned helicopters totalling $141 million as well as signed Letters of Intent... Read more

People’s Capital And Leasing Corp appoints helicopter finance pecialist

People’s Capital And Leasing Corp appoints helicopter finance pecialist

12-Feb-2011Source: People’s United Bank

BRIDGEPORT, CT – People’s Capital and Leasing Corp (PCLC), a subsidiary of People’s United Bank (NASDAQ: PBCT), announced today the appointment of Jim Pulie as Vice President, Sales for PCLC’s Aviation Finance segment. Pulie will be responsible for the origination of loan and lease finance solutions for the U.S. commercial helicopter industry. Pulie has more... Read more

Tiger Helicopters to lease two JetRangers from Castle Air

Tiger Helicopters to lease two JetRangers from Castle Air

27-Jul-2010Source: HeliHub.com

British operator Tiger Helicopters are to lease two AB206 JetRangers from Castle Air.  The lease commences 1st October 2010 for an initial period of two years, with each JetRanger expected to fly 1,000 hours during that time on an intensive training contract.  Tiger are providing ab initio training for Algerian military pilots who will then... Read more

Era Helicopters parent appoints Director of Leasing

Era Helicopters parent appoints Director of Leasing

8-Feb-2010Source: Seacor Holdings

SEACOR Holdings Inc. (SEACOR) (NYSE:CKH) today announced that effective February 1, Domenic Iannuzzi has joined SEACOR Holdings Inc. as a Director of Structured Leasing for SEACOR Capital Corporation, SEACOR’s leasing and finance subsidiary. Dan Hutchins, Vice President of SEACOR Capital, commented, “We are extremely pleased to have Domenic join us. His experience and expertise in... Read more

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