Pegasus Aero Group

Pegasus Aero Group is a Spanish aviation group with its head office at the Sebastián Almagro aerodrome in Palma del Río, Córdoba. Its parent company, Pegasus Aviación, was founded in 1966 and works with both helicopters and aircraft, mainly in southern Europe and other Mediterranean countries. The group says it has accumulated more than 200,000 flight hours.

Companies in the group

• Pegasus Aviación: aerial work, especially forest firefighting, aircraft maintenance and training
• Pegasus Offshore: helicopter operator specialising in search and rescue
• Pegasus South America, Elitellina and Seilaf

Operations

Pegasus Offshore describes itself as a helicopter operator focused on emergencies for the last 25 years. It was the first Spanish company to use heavy helicopters to carry work crews and to clean insulators on high-voltage power lines. It has also flown cargo, passengers and film, documentary and advertising work. Today it concentrates on search and rescue missions, with nearly twenty helicopters of the PZL W-3 Sokol and Bell 412 types working from more than 15 bases for firefighting, rescue and civil protection, with over 25,000 flight hours.

The group divisions listed on the site cover aerial operations, firefighting, external loads, civil protection, passenger transport and integrated emergency services.

Fleet

Helicopters shown on the site: Kamov Ka-32 A11BC, PZL W-3A Sokol, Bell 212, Bell 412, Agusta A119 Koala, Schweizer 300CBi and AS350 B3. The aircraft side includes Air Tractor 802 and the amphibious Air Tractor.

Training, maintenance and simulation

Pegasus Aviación has its own maintenance centre approved by EASA and recognised as an authorised service station for much of the AgustaWestland fleet. For more than 15 years it has run courses for aircraft maintenance technicians, avionics staff and helicopter pilots. It lists a Bell 412 full flight simulator and an FNPTII simulator.