How viable is it to buy a heli with the intent to lease to a local School/charter?

[WillyPete]

Originally Posted by Rotor Kop

I disagree with most of you. I own R22 and R44 helicopters and find them to have a positive bank balance at year end. If there was no money to be made then why are there literally thousands of them flying around our skies????

Quite a few instances that prompted me to ask this have been with the robinsons.
Schools have a handy replacement when their own birds are undergoing maintenance and during a time of "peak load".
The owners I've chatted to appear to have a similar experience to yours, but I think the profit margins will reduce as the help becomes more expensive/complex.

At my local field, someone there recently overhauled a timexed 44 and seems to be doing well renting it to VVB.