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Bond Aviation Group was a British helicopter operator based at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton.It was purchased by Babcock International in 2014. [1] It incorporated Bond Air Services, now renamed Babcock Mission Critical Services Onshore, and Bond Offshore Helicopters, now renamed Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore.
Babcock Mission Critical Services Onshore, formerly Bond Air Services (Bond Aviation Group), is an operator of air ambulance, police, and offshore windfarm helicopters in the UK. Babcock operates a mixed fleet of light twin-engine helicopters custom designed to perform specific and specialised tasks. It operates from 17 bases around the UK.
David Bond founded Management Aviation, [1] in 1961 to operate Hiller 12E helicopters near Cambridge for commercial services (mostly crop spraying) in the UK. By 1972 the company had entered the North Sea market, and introduced the world's first light twin-engined helicopter, Bolkow 105, in support of North Sea and Lighthouse Operations.
Bond also operated a very similar Eurocopter EC225 LP helicopter which ditched in the North Sea on 18 February 2009, in which all 18 aboard were rescued. [3] [8] The most serious North Sea helicopter accident was the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash, when a Boeing 234 Chinook crashed, killing 45 people. [9] [10]
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This is a list of helicopter airlines. ... Bond Air Services: Australia Bond Aviation Group: Staverton: United Kingdom 1961 2016 Bond Offshore Helicopters: Australia
The Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust is a charity that provides a dedicated helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. [5] The service operates a Leonardo AW169 helicopter and two critical care cars that are utilised when the helicopter is unable to fly. [6] Together they attend about 1,100 incidents per year. [6]
1 April – A Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma Mk 2 of Bond Offshore Helicopters suffers a mechanical failure and crashes into the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeenshire. All 16 people on board are killed. 3 May – A Mil Mi-17 of the Venezuelan Army crashes in Táchira province. All seventeen people on board are killed.