Heliflight UK

Heliflight (UK) Ltd is a helicopter company based at Gloucestershire Airport in Staverton, near Cheltenham. It was founded in 1996 by Jon Lane at Halfpenny Green Airport and has been based in Gloucestershire for more than 24 years. It combines flight training, charter, self-fly hire and pleasure flights.

Services

• Helicopter flight school: trial lessons, PPL, commercial pilot courses, instructor training, licence conversions including PPL(A) to PPL(H), and night rating
• Private and corporate charter across the UK, including a twin-engine helicopter and a Cheltenham Racecourse helicopter service
• Self-fly hire
• Pleasure flights and helitours through its sister company Heli Adventures, with flights from Cardiff, Bath, Gloucester and Wiltshire
• Gift vouchers, special occasion flights and a Flight Radiotelephony Operator's Licence course
• In-house maintenance facility on the airport, with servicing packages for owners and operators
• An owner management service

Fleet

Heliflight states that it hangars 15 helicopters at Gloucestershire. Its fleet page lists the Guimbal Cabri G2, Robinson R22 and R44, Bell 206 JetRanger, AS350 Single Squirrel, AS355 Twin Squirrel, Enstrom 280 and 480, Eurocopter EC120, Hughes 300 and Hughes 500. Type conversions are offered on several of these types.

Company facts

• Founded in 1996 by Jon Lane, who leads the flight instructors
• Two in-house flight examiners and one in-house radiotelephony examiner
• Single base at Gloucestershire Airport
• A Safety Management System page is published on the site

Contact

Phone: 01452 714555