THK Gökçen Aviation

THK Gökçen Aviation (THK Gökçen Havacılık) is an aviation enterprise based in Etimesgut, Ankara, owned by the Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK). Its website describes the company as a THK organisation and uses the slogan "A safe sky for all of us". It offers air taxi, air ambulance, aerial firefighting and aviation training services, and operates a rotary-wing fleet alongside other activities.

History

• 1986: founded by THK as the Air Taxi Economic Enterprise (Hava Taksi İktisadi İşletmesi)
• 2007: renamed Gökçen Havacılık İktisadi İşletmesi, after Sabiha Gökçen
• May 2011: subsidiaries set up in IT and security systems, insurance and brokerage, and tourism and education
• 2013: 17 Eurocopter EC135 helicopters added to the fleet, extending the company into rotary-wing operations

Services

• Air taxi, with a booking line on 444 UCUS (444 82 87)
• Air ambulance, linked on the site to a dedicated ambulance website
• Emergency medical service, disaster management and search and rescue missions
• Firefighting: the home page describes the largest private firefighting fleet in Europe
• Aviation training, through a separate training website
• Aircraft maintenance and repair centre
• Hot air balloon rides, parachuting, microlight flying, model aircraft clubs and a pilot shop

Fleet

The company page states a fleet of 17 EC135 helicopters, bought from Eurocopter in 2013. The home page slideshow also shows a CL-215 firefighting aircraft and a Citation XLS jet, but gives no fleet counts for them.