16-Jan-2014Source: LCI
Lease Corporation International’s (LCI) helicopter division has taken delivery of its fifth AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter, and has placed the aircraft on lease with Bond Offshore Helicopters (Bond) in Aberdeen, Scotland. The delivery follows the agreement last year of a long term lease between LCI and Bond’s parent company Avincis Group – a leading global provider... Read more
2-Jul-2013Source: CIT
CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a global leader in transportation finance, today announced that CIT Transportation Lending provided financing to Dublin-based Lease Corporation International (LCI) to acquire three AgustaWestland 139 helicopters. The aircraft are in offshore oil and gas configuration and are on lease to UK-based Bond Helicopters and Malaysia-based Weststar Aviation. CIT Transportation Lending... Read more
21-Feb-2013Source: Bond Offshore Helicopters
Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd, one of the UK’s leading providers of energy support services, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a new contract with BW Offshore. This new contract, worth in the region of £16 million, is to provide crew change support for the BW Offshore (UK) Limited Floating Production Storage and... Read more
10-Dec-2012
12 December: Bond Offshore Helicopters can confirm that one of its aircraft developed a technical problem whilst on an offshore platform. Engineers were dispatched and examined the aircraft. Once the relevant part has been delivered and fitted, the aircraft will be returned to normal service. update 14th December – G-PERA returned to Norwich Airport yesterday... Read more
19-Nov-2012Source: Bond Offshore Helicopters
Bond Offshore Helicopters Ltd, one of the UK’s leading providers of energy support services, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a new contract with Perenco Oil and Gas. This new contract, worth in the region of £37 million, is for the provision of crew change flights to Perenco’s newly-acquired assets in the... Read more
5-Mar-2012Source: HeliHub.com
Bond Offshore Helicopters have now registered their third AgustaWestland AW139 with the UK Civil Aviation Authority. G-PERD will join the first pair G-PERA and G-PERB which were acquired in March and May of 2011. The alphabetic sequence was broken due to G-PERC being currently allocated to a Cameron hot air balloon, and the UK CAA... Read more
29-Sep-2011Source: AgustaWestland
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and Bond Aviation Group, are pleased to announce that they have signed an MoU today that will see both companies work together to establish a multi-year contract covering the purchase of AW139, AW169 and AW189 helicopters for offshore oil and gas support, HEMS, SAR and emergency service missions, together with support... Read more
28-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com
RH Bodyworks (Helitech stand 1715) is expanding its portfolio by starting in spraying helicopters. Thus far it has completed an AgustaWestland AW139 for Bond Offshore Helicopters (see below) and a respray of the tail boom of the Essex Police EC135T2+. Part of the Roy Humphrey Group, RH Bodyworks are based on the old Eye Airfield... Read more
6-Jun-2011Source: Bond Offshore Helicopters
[Note: We run the press release from Bond below verbatim. However, we have been reporting this since 1st February 2011 – see here!] Bond Offshore Helicopters, part of the Gloucestershire-based Bond Aviation Group, has won a £50m contract to supply oil and gas company Perenco with two new Agusta Westland AW139 aircrafts. Bond has been... Read more
13-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com
The second AW139 for Bond Offshore Helicopters is now registered in the UK as G-PERB. This is the second aircraft for operations on the Southern North Sea for Perenco, and will be based at Norwich. There are reports of Bond acquiring a total of four AW139s, two leased from Era Helicopters – these first two... Read more
5-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Bond Offshore Helicopters are due to start operating the AW139 on offshore operations to the Southern North Sea soon. A key customer in this region of gas fields is Perenco, for which Bond will fly a pair of AW139s, registered G-PERA and PERB picking up the first three letters of oil company’s name. On delivery,... Read more
1-Feb-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Yesterday, Bond Offshore Helicopters registered their first AW139 helicopter with teh UK CAA – it is G-PERA which reflects it being contracted to the independent oil & gas company Perenco. Previously this company’s operations were supported by an AW139 from CHC. The AW139, which will be joined by a second prior to the contract start... Read more
