Ariane Helicopter Services S.r.l.

Ariane Helicopter Services S.r.l. is an Italian helicopter company based in Caiolo, in the Valtellina area of the province of Sondrio. It provides aerial work, passenger and cargo transport, helicopter pilot training and continuing airworthiness management (CAMO), with bases in northern and central Italy.

Services

• Aerial work: building site services, forest firefighting and civil protection, transport and assembly, stringing of cables and power lines, rockfall barrier installation, fire observation, supplying mountain huts and parachute drops
• Aerial photography and filming for cinema, advertising and journalism, in cooperation with a communications agency
• Passenger transport: helicopter charter, elitaxi and eliski, VIP and executive flights, and panoramic tourist flights over the Alps, the Lombardy lakes and resorts such as Bormio, Livigno, St Moritz and Ponte di Legno
• Cargo transport: machinery, concrete, timber, pylons and ski lift parts, avalanche and rockfall barriers, and supplies for alpine refuges

Fleet

The company says it uses Robinson R22 Beta and Beta II helicopters for flight training, Eurocopter AS350 helicopters for aerial work and Agusta A109 helicopters for passenger transport.

Flight school and CAMO

The flight school aims to take students to the private helicopter pilot licence PPL(H) and, on request, the commercial licence CPL(H). It says it flies seven days a week. The CAMO approval IT.CAMO.0158 covers continuing airworthiness management, airworthiness review certificates, maintenance programmes and support with national aviation authorities. The site lists many types it can manage, including Bell 206B, Eurocopter AS350, EC120, Robinson R22 and R44 and Agusta A109.

Bases

• Caiolo (Sondrio), main base, with the Flytech heliport
• Bresso (Milan) airport
• Capena, Rome north heliport
• Pratello, Peccioli (Pisa) airstrip