Hi all, thanks for your comments. We are delighted to have been selected to operate the National Grid contract for another eight years.
Just to clarify the factual situation, it is not a contract HeliAir have ever operated - it is a similar contract to the one TAMS and Sterling Helicopters used to operate but now on a larger scale and longer timeframe.
Chris P Bacon, we do not subcontract out any of the flight operations. Helicentre Aviation holds an AOC (GB2236) and we operate all flights under it. In addition to the airframes we own / operate, we do contract lease additional airframes, as required, which is not uncommon with a contract of this size.
Finally, appreciate this is a very old thread which has been bumped with the recent press about the contract award, but we are a completely separate commercial entity to the other "Helicentres" that do or did exist around the UK, and we have not operated at Damyns Hall Aerodrome for about 5 years now.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2014!
Helicentre Aviation
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