Bangkok Helicopter Services

Bangkok Helicopter Services Co., Ltd. operates under the BDMS Helicopter name in Bangkok, Thailand. Its website presents three services: Sky ICU helicopter air ambulance, a Flying Limousine VIP transfer service and sightseeing flights. Its operations base is at Don Mueang International Airport.

Services

• Helicopter air ambulance: a 24 hour service in Thailand and neighbouring countries covering medical evacuation and repatriation, with specialists in emergency medicine and critical care transfer
• Flying Limousine: VIP transport in a cabin with eight seats, back-support cushioning, seatbelts and headsets, loaded through large slide doors and rear clamshell doors, with space for baggage and golf bags
• Sightseeing flights: the online reservation form offers routes over Ayutthaya Ancient City, Phra Pathom Chedi, Pak Nam and the Chao Phraya River, as well as flights to Bangkok with BDMS Helicopter

Aircraft

The site publishes specifications for two Airbus (MBB) BK117 helicopters. HS-BHS is a BK117 C-2 with Arriel 1E2 engines, a 133 knot maximum cruise speed and a range of 680 km. HS-BHQ is a BK117 D-2 (H145) with Arriel 2E engines, a 143 knot maximum cruise speed and a range of 651 km. Both fly with two pilots and carry one or two stretchers in the EMS role, or eight seats in the Flying Limousine role.

The company showed HS-BHQ in EMS configuration at the LIMA exhibition in Langkawi in March 2019, and recruits pilots, flight dispatchers and H145 licensed maintenance engineers at Don Mueang.

Company facts

• Main office: Bangkok Hospital Dental Center, 5th floor, 2301/2 New Petchburi Road, Bangkapi, Huaykwang, Bangkok 10310
• Base: Don Mueang International Airport (Gate 4), Bangkok Airways Technical Hangar, Vibhavadi Rangsit Road, Bangkok 10210
• Fleet on the site: two BK117 helicopters
• Safety and information pages published on the site