Last year, a CHC helicopter made a remarkable journey. And a little over a month ago, it arrived in Europe’s oil capital.
With an already established presence around the world, CHC operates from 11 international bases with 50 aircrafts frequently circling the skies.
On November 10, 2014 a brand new S-92 model was checked over by operational and technical experts in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.
Since then, the copter has travelled over 4,000 miles, stopping in Baltimore, Halifax and Liverpool before reaching its final destination in Aberdeen, where it is now based.
The extravagant voyage took a little over a month, with engineers making modifications to the state-of-the-art aircraft along the way.
After leaving Pennsylvania the newest brand of the company’s fleet landed in Baltimore where Sikorsky engineers removed the main blades to reduce its height and width before storing them safely in the aircraft in preparation for the next leg of the trip.
A couple of weeks later it made a pit-stop in Halifax, Canada before setting off for Liverpool where it was checked and loaded onto a specially designed truck to see it safely to Aberdeen.
The airliner joins a fleet that carried more than 140,000 people across 9,000 flights last year and is part of CHC’s multi-million investment in Aberdeen facilities.
In December, CHC said it would expand hangar capacity in Dyce, create a larger and more streamlined passenger terminal and establish a new flight operations centre.
Mark Abbey, regional director of CHC West North Sea, said: “Flying in the North Sea region requires a fleet of heavy aircraft that is modified and maintained to operate at the highest levels of safety and availability.
“We are investing and improving, making us an even more capable and efficient partner to the offshore industry.”
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