This subject is a significant challenge to research and document. Recorded history relating to scheduled helicopter airline operations is scattered and difficult to unearth. Just like so many helicopter airlines themselves, information has just faded away. My thanks go to all who have contributed their time, memories, photos and documents. These include:
Michael Generoso of Surrey, British Columbia who created the route maps.
Brian Irvvin of Vancouver, British Columbia who provided database and website technical expertise.
And all these kind people who provided collateral material, timetables, photos, post cards, stamps, maps, time for interviews, research and advice:
A Bent Aaskoven, Jean Karl Abdilla, Jean Pierre Tabone Adami, Frank Adams, Zane Adams, Alexander Agafonov, Neil Aird, Vladimir Akishin, Valentin Ayala Alarcon, Fernando Gonzalez Alcobre, Mitya Aleshkovsky, Abbas Ali, Markus Altmann, Alexander Anokhin, Andrey Antipov, Elfan ap Rees, Georgio Apostolo, Keith Armes, Jeff Arndt, Vladislav Astahov, Steve Aubury, Nicholas P. Augusta, Drew Avery, Mike Axe, Claes Axtal, Iavan Azzopardi
B Lars Baek, Pier Francesco Baglivo, Peter Bakema, Svetlana Balaeva, Evgeny Balagurov, Philippe Ballarini, Eric Bannwarth, Jacque Barbe, Steve Barnes, Mike Barth, Trevor Bartlett, Artem Baryshnikov, Jean Paul Bascou, Jan Batyuto, Mario Bazanni, Brian Becker, Mickey Bednar, Chris Bell, Dmitry Belov, Vladislav Belov, Roberto Benetti, Andrew Bennison, Roger Bentley, Gianfranco Mazzero Bermejo, Oscar Bernardi, Kjell Arild Bersas, Martin Best, Malcolm Bezzina, Roberto Bianchi, Thomas Bischofberger, Piotr Biskupski, Peter Bjerre, Bill Blanchard, Jack R. Bol, Alexander Bondarenko, Philippe Boulay, Georgiy Bovtik, Eugene Branish, Simon Brooke, Shimzu Brothers, Luc Brousseau, Alan D. R. Brown, Jasper Brown, Thomas Brugge, Dominik Burger, Oliver Burke, Hermann Buttigieg, Bradley Bygrave, Vera Bykova
C Olivier Caberet, Todd Calaiezzi, Reynold P Camilleri, Matthew Borg Cardona, Micahel Carter, Guy Cassiman, Greg Cayhill, Paul Chakasim, Oleg Chaplin, Islam Chen, Andrey Chursin, Simone Ciaralli, Ed Coates, Kevin Colbran, Philippe Colin, Marcel Colthoff, Roger Connor, Marina Cozma, Rolando Criniti, Mihai Crisan, Mike Cussans
D Sean D. Silva, Paul Daly, Ronald Edward George Davies, Peter Davis, Neville Dawson, Stephan de Bruijn, Joop de Groot, Peter de Jong, Simon De Rudder, Diego Ruiz De Vargas, Carlo Dedoni, Ilgaz Deger, Edgar Deican, Denis Dennis, Paul Denton, Dipalay Dey, Vladislav Dmitrenko, Osipov Dmitry, Bill Dolan, Sergei Dolgodvorov, Skalzang Dolma, Oleg Drul, Tyrone Dsouza, Frank C. Duarte, Ted Dumont, Alexander Dunaev, Michel Duruz, Igor Dvurekov
E Chip Echt, Tony Edlind, B. Emmeneger, Yuri Endaltsev, Gunter Endres, George Valentine Enell, Ivan Ermolaev, Aleksandr Eshkinin, Alexey Eshtokin, Glen Etchells, Jeff Evans, Valery Evgenievich
F Timur Fatkulov, Patrick Fauchere, Denis Fedorko, Nathaniel Felsher, Fabio Ferioli, Manuel Fernandez, Daniel Ferro, Pavel Fetisov, Jack Fetsko, Javier Ortega Figueiral, Iain Fisher, Richard E. Flagg, Rhett Flater, Peter Fluck, Tomas Foosnaes, Morris Forchuk, Daniel Lapierre Forget, Erik Frikke, Michael Fritz, Christian Fuhrhop, Jun Furuuchi
G Vladimir Galkin, Jim Gammonley, Sergio Echeverria Garcia, Robin Garrity, David Gasnier, Henk Geerlings, Michael Generoso, Romano Germann, Joop Gerritsma, Emanuele Ghiroldi, Angelo Gialanella, Pierre Gillard, Mark Zerafa Gilson, Ken Glaze, Igor Glebov, Vasily Gogolev, Daniel Goguen, Maxim Golbraikht, Edelva Lizancos Gonzalex, Fergal Goodman, Petr Gorbunov, Ivan Goreza, Mikhail Gorichev, Roberto Gorini, David Gow, Maxence Graf, Kjell O. Granlund, Danny Grew, Aleksey Grichkov, Damiano Gualdoni,Sergio Gualdoni, Vladislav Gubzhokov, Arild Gulli, Danner Gyde
H Joonas H., Chris Haag, G. V. Halliday, Bob Halsted, Robert Halsted, Brenda Halvorson, John Hamlin, Ali Hammoud, Henrik R. Hansen, Sriram Hariharan, Zvi Harpaz, Kees Harteveld, Ian Haskell, Thor Hasselo, Daniel Haté, Jean-Pierre Haté, John Havers, Karl Hayes, Derek Heley, Don Henchel, Gerard Henry, Juan Herrero, Adrian Herzig, Markus Herzig, Anton Heumann, Seymour A. Hills, Norbert Hofer, Mike Hooks, Bill Hough, King F. Hui, Wolfgang Hut
I Kenji Ikegami, Roman Impolitov, Brian Irwin, Dmitry Ivanov
J Jerome Jacquod, Hans-Arne Jensen, Henrik Jensen, Lars Jensen, Alain Jonard, Dave Jones, Moegens Juhl
K Youri Kabernik, Alexey Kachaev, Alexey Kalinin, Sergei Kanev, Vladimir Karlov, Eugene Kaspersky, Arkady Kataev, Yuri Kaverin, David Keller, Roman Khomchenko, Alexey Khromov, John Kimberley, Andrey Kiselnikov, Yuri Kiselyov, Olav Kjoll, Elizabeth Klimesch, Artyom Klimov, Johan Knijn, Raymonde Kohn, Mikhail Kokh, Robert Kolek, Vladislav Kolesnichenko, Vladimir Korobkov, Igor Korolev, Harri Koskinen, John Kowalski, Karl Kramer, Alexander Krasnikov, Nikita Krasovsky, Erik Gjoerup Kristensen, Niklas Kristensson, Sergey Krivonosov, Ivan Kudin, Alexander Kulakovich, Michael Kutyba
L Tim L'Espérence, Alfredo La Marca, P. M. Lammers, Guy Langlois, Leo Larsen, Alan Lathan, Dickson Lau, Mel Lawrence, Evgeny Lebedev, Joseph K. K. Lee, Pierre Lesieutre, Henry Lidster, Jacques Lienard, Daniel Liron, Aleksei Litvinov, Manuel Llama, Flemming Loevenig, Graeme Lovell, Sergey Loyko, Granzinin Luca, Lars Lundin, Marina Lystseva
M Ian M. Macdonald, Mike MacGowan, William J. Madden, William Mah, Andrey Makarov, Sergey Makarov, Olga Makukha, Patrick Mallen, Carlo Marcora, Manuel Marin, Hisha Marsov, Fabrizio Martelozzo, Ilia Martemianov, Dignam Martin, Tim Martin, Maxim Golbraikht, Maks Maydachenko, Scott McGeachy, Colin McKeeman, Alan McKnight, Gerard McNulty, Jerome Mervelet, Fred Milam, Chuck Miller, Tomas Milosch, C. Miniggio, Marco Mittini, Paolo Monti, Geoff Moore, Marshall Moxom, Filippo Murgia, Terry Murphy
N Arthur Na, Nitin Nair, Sid Nanson, Malcolm Nason, Kirill Naumenko, Anastasia Nazarova, Vladimir Nefedov, Wolodymir Nelowkin, Michael Nemecek, Jim Newton, Vadim Nezdatny, Kjell Nilsson, Larry Nocerino, Bart Noeth, George Norman, Eggert Norodahl, Ryan Notestine, Igor Novikov, Rainer Nyberg
O Breffni O'Dubhghaill, Douglas Olsen, Wilbur Olsen, Mehmet Yavuz Ozyapar
P Artyom Pankiv, Wictor Pantzar, Mikhail Panyuta, Filippo Paolone, Vasily Paraskiva, Janam Parikh, Colin Parker, Jeremy Parkin, Alessandro Parmigiani, P. Parvaud, Yevgeny Pashnin, Oliver (Rocky) Pearson, Per Thorup Pedersen, Eric Penttila, Peridromofil, Arkady Perevoznikov, Emmanuuel Person, Jerry Peters, Johan P. Petersen, Rene Petersen, Robert Petite, Dmitriy Pichugin, Leonardo Pinzauti, Alexey Pisarev, Rodion Piskunov, Ilya Plekhanov, Vladimir Pochekutov, Igor Poluyanov, Andy Pope, Peter Poulsen, Jay Prall, Sergei Pretovsky, Justo Miguel Prieto, Jon Proctor, Nikita Pugach, Elisabetta Puggioni, Brett Pulford, Marek Purat, Marion Pyles
R Alain Rabiller, N. Raith, Haro Ranter, Thomas Reinmann, Alexey Reznichenko, Clay Rhensius, Jean Philippe Richard, Juha Ritaranta, Stewart Robertson, Mael Robin, Paolo Rollino, Baheu Romain, Erik Romanenko, Gael Roux, Romain Roux, Dmitry Rudakov, Jose Antonio Ruiz, Geoff Russell, Sergey Ryabtsev
S Juuso S., Steinar Saevdal, Arjun Sarup, Frank Schaefer, Paul Schaller, Peter Scharkowski, Henrik Schmidt, R. A. Scholefield, Paul Schopbach, Jakob Olsvig Schytz, Marco Sciberras, Stuart Scollon, Jerry Search, Vladimir Seletsky, Semyon Semenych, Vladimir Sergeevich, Lysenko Sergei, Mario Serrano, Sergey Sh, Andrey Shapovlov, Robbie Shaw, Anton Shepelin, Shimizu Brothers, Shivendra Shukla, Martin E. Siegrist, Asgeir Sigurdsson, German Silantev, Francois-Xavier Simon, Jonathan Sims, Olafur Siqurdsson, Brandon Siska, Daniel Sitnam, Stefan Sjogren, Kirill Skurikhin, John Slattery, Perry Sloan, Evgeniy Smirnov, A. J. Smith, Darren M. Smith, Alex Snow, Gunnstein Soennesyn, Utsav Solanki, Stefan Sonnenberg, Hans Christian Florian Sorensen, Harry Spatzer, Rino Sperlbauer, Robert St. Pierre, Richard Stalbrand, Craig Stevens, Jos Stevens, John P. Stewart, Jacob Struben, Bernd Sturm, Chi Jen Su, Dave Subelack, Sandeep Suresh, Ken Swartz, Hal Symes
T Peter Tancred, Bronislav Tarasenko, Danil Tarasov, Andrey Tchursin, Brian Thompson, Chan Ting-Kwan, Stephen Toews, Svein Erik Toien, Joseph Tonna, Peter Tonna, Igarashi Toshifumi, Marco Toso, Rich Tregear, Alena Tsarkova, Joe Turner
U Max Ugolkov, Amar Ujala, Peter Unmuth, David Unsworth, Ivan Urakov, Evgeni Ushakov
V Thimo van Dijk, Donald L Van Dyke, Guy Van Herbruggen, Mark Van Ossel, Peter Van Stelle, Bruno Vanclee, Fernand VandePlas, Richard Vandervord, Alexey Vanichkin, Peter Vercruijsse, Jerry Vernon, Eric Verplanken, Boris Vetrov, Vladimir Viasov, Arnold Vibert, Y. Vienne, Gary Vincent, Mika B. Virolainen, John Visanich, Yurij Vladimirovich, Vladimir Vlasov, Klaus Vomhof, Vyacheslav Voronin, Louis Vosloo
W Jimmy Wadia, Mogens Wahl, Soren Wahl, Hans Wallin, Rolf Wallner, Jonathan Walton, Eric Wang, Michael Ward, Christian Waser, Gary Watt, John Wegg, Alain Weil, Boc Weinwurzel, Flo Weiss, Andy Whyte, Stephen Wilcox, Keith C. Wilson, Christofer Witt, Kwok Ho Eddie Wong, Ken Woodward, Ian Wright
X Joseph Xuereb
Y Dmitry Yakovlev, Dennis Yan, Walter Yorke, Goncharova Yuliana
Z Frank Zahorik, Gordon Zammit, Robin Zammit, Petr Zaoral, Evgeny Zhelezov, Sergey Zhigalov, Katya Zhuravleva, Fabian Zimmerli, Tamsin Zvereva, Wim Zwakhals