1-Nov-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
26-Oct-2011Source: HeliHub.com
German EMS operator DRF has sold Eurocopter EC135P1 D-HYYY, serial number 0006, to Swiss operator Skymedia – a member of the Lions Air Group – who have registered it locally as HB-ZJE. Having spent all its life as an air ambulance in the red and white DRF scheme, the helicopter was noted in the last... Read more
23-Oct-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss operator Air Grischa Helikopter has added a new Eurocopter AS350B3e to their fleet, the first of its type in Switzerland. It is registered HB-ZND and is serial 7268 from the factory in Marignane, near Marseilles. Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com... Read more
13-Oct-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss helicopter operator HeliSwiss has acquired a Bell 206B JetRanger 3 from Germany to replace the helicopter they lost in an accident in April (see details). Rhe Bell arrived at HeliSwiss’ base at Bern on Monday of this week still carrying its German registration D-HGMS and will in the next few days be registered locally... Read more
3-Oct-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
28-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss operator Air Grischa Helikopter has purchased a Eurocopter EC120. Serial number 1434, a 2006 build, has been bought from French operator HeliStar. The helicopter adds to Air Grischa’s fleet which also includes one EC130, five AS350B3 Squirrels and a Guimbal Cabri G2. Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com... Read more
16-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Heliswiss is celebrating one of its JetRangers passing 18,000 flight hours on 31st August. Delivered new in 1980 from the Agusta production line, and serialled 8606, this aircraft was flown in Austria as OE-DXV until purchased by Heliswiss in March 1986. Later the same year they passed it to their Spanish associate Heliswiss Iberica for... Read more
12-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss operator Mountain Flyers 80 has acquired a 2004-build Eurocopter AS350B2 from Italy, where it was operated by Eurojet Italia. Previously registered I-BLBU, serial number 3816 is now registered in Switzerland as HB-ZTM, and is being financed by the German company Kunert Aircraft Asset GbR. It replaces sister ship HB-ZAM which was written off in... Read more
6-Sep-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
5-Aug-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
28-Jul-2011Source: Rega
(electronic translation from local language) Rega, the Berne hospital now supported in poor visibility, flying on navigation by satellite. The Federal Office of Civil Aviation has approved the Switzerland’s first civilian GPS approach procedures for helicopters. Patients benefit from increased security of supply in case of bad weather and haze layers. Just autumn or winter... Read more
6-Jul-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
28-Jun-2011
Landing accident on open grass area and ended up on port side. 29 year old front seat passenger to hospital. 38 year old pilot uninjured, as were the rear passengers – 69 year old man and 26 year old woman.... Read more
21-Jun-2011Source: Sikorsky
Sikorsky Aerospace Services announced today the signing of an agreement with RUAG Aviation to designate its Alpnach helicopter facility in Switzerland as an authorized Customer Service Center (CSC) to support the Sikorsky S-76® helicopter platform. Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) is the aftermarket division of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX). “The... Read more
7-Jun-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
2-Jun-2011Source: HeliHub.com
REGA, the Swiss Air Ambulance operator, has broken ground on a new base for Ticino, the southernmost canton in the mountaineous land-locked country. Located at Locarno airport, the new facility is expected to be operational in June 2012. EMS cover began in Ticino in 1980 with a small hangar, an Alouette III and two pilots.... Read more
26-May-2011Source: Salzi
On 21-22 May, many helicopter pilots from Germany, Austria and Switzerland took up the invitation to “Heli-Treff Munich” and headed in perfect flying weather to the beautiful county town of Kelheim in Bavaria.... Read more
19-May-2011
Training flight, crashed from low hover of three metres... Read more
5-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss Robinson distributor Valair Helicopter Services has launched a dedicated website for the R66 at http://www.r66-helicopter.ch to support their sales efforts in country.  Valair have been the official Robinson dealer for Switzerland for over 10 years, and are (as you would expect from this article!) also the R66 dealer. In January they reported having two... Read more
4-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com
The UK fleet of five Schwiezer 333s has not flown for some time – three have airworthiness expiry dates in 2009, one in 2010 and the last has been de-registered after a post-maintenance accident after the main rotor gearbox had been replaced. The first four, registered G-TAMA, B, C and D were bought by Total... Read more
2-May-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
11-Apr-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
6-Apr-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
30-Mar-2011
Training flight out of Alpnach. Loadmaster slightly injured, two pilots seriously injured.... Read more
15-Mar-2011Source: MD Helicopters
MD Helicopters, Inc (MDHI), a leading manufacturer of commercial and military helicopters, has completed the sale of a new MD 530F to Fuchs Helicopter of Schindellegi, Switzerland. Fuchs will deliver the aircraft to a large corporate customer, who already owns an MD 500D. The new MD 530F ordered from Fuchs features state-of-the-art avionics, including the... Read more
10-Mar-2011Source: HeliHub.com
Guimbal Helicopteres has today delivered its first Cabri G2 to Switzerland, the 22nd aircraft off the production line. Its operator will be Procopter at Grenchen, who will begin to operate this helicopter immediately, including participation in a major air show this weekend, or 10,000 people are expected. Procopter becoming our distributor for this region, and... Read more
17-Feb-2011
Heliski operation. All six occupants airlifted to hospital in Sion.... Read more
4-Feb-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
24-Jan-2011Source: AgustaWestland
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that a contract has been signed with Rega, the Swiss SAR and EMS provider, for the supply of a state-of-the-art advanced simulator to meet the training requirements for Rega’s new fleet of Da Vinci and GrandNew light twin helicopters. The simulator, designed and produced by AgustaWestland in... Read more
18-Jan-2011
Pilot Jean Marcel Grillet Aubert seriously injured, Passenger (unnamed) not injured... Read more
7-Jan-2011Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
8-Dec-2010Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss Air Ambulance, known locally as Rega, has now upgraded all their mountain bases to the AgustaWestland Da Vinci, based on AW109SP model – the last two bases to upgrade were at Zweisimmen and Mollis. The crew of the helicopter base at Zweisimmen upgraded to an AW109SP Da Vinci last Saturday with a patient transfer... Read more
1-Dec-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
30-Nov-2010Source: HeliHub.com
Unlikely as it seems, Switzerland has just registered its first Sikorsky S76 on their local “HB-” register, despite the type having been in commercial operations for over 31 years and Switzerland being a very active user of helicopters. The helicopter concerned is an S76B model, serial 76-0430, and best known to HeliHub.com readers in Europe... Read more
24-Nov-2010
National portal website focussing on the helicopters registered in Switzerland and photographs of them.... Read more
22-Nov-2010Source: Zoll
ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of medical devices and related software solutions, announced today that Swiss Air-Rescue, Rega, of Zurich Switzerland, is the first international air medical service to install the new Propaq(R) MD Monitor/Defibrillator on its medical helicopters. Rega partnered with ZOLL over the last year to provide valuable clinical and human factor input... Read more
11-Nov-2010
Helicopter suffered a heavy landing in a field, skids compacted and tail hit the ground. Cabin was untouched.... Read more
1-Nov-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
1-Nov-2010Source: 24 Heures
Last Friday in the morning, two military helicopters were hit by a laser beam above Vevey. Based on indications of crews, Vaud cantonal police could identify and question the author. He has been charged.... Read more
26-Oct-2010Source: HeliHub.com
Through 2010, HeliHub.com has become known for its range of official register updates, where we list new helicopter registrations, cancellations, changes of owner etc for a range of countries – Australia, Austria, Ireland, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland and UK. We are now very pleased to report that, in association with AMCAR, we... Read more
11-Oct-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
10-Oct-2010Source: REGA
On Tuesday afternoon, the 300,000. Using the Rega since its founding in 1952 took place. Newborn twins have been kicked out of neonatology at Children’s Hospital Lucerne with the Rega helicopter in their home canton of Vaud back. The twins, at 1 October had come to the world, were maintained on the Department of Newborn... Read more
9-Sep-2010Source: SwissInfo
The Swiss government decided in August to give Pakistan the three machines which were already out of operation, but it has now decided to give the remaining seven as well.... Read more
5-Sep-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
31-Aug-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
17-Aug-2010
This event held over the past weekend included visitors from across Austria and also from Germany and Switzerland... Read more
1-Jul-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
2-Jun-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
5-May-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
5-May-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
28-Apr-2010Source: SwissInfo
When spring arrives, increasing numbers of skiers fly by helicopter to the high mountain peaks, to experience the joys of free riding down in powder snow. But environmental groups say nature reserves should not be used as helicopter landing pads.... Read more
23-Mar-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
15-Mar-2010Source: RUAG Aerospace
On 1 April 2010 RUAG Aviation takes over from Linth Air Service AG in Mollis (GL) the Helicopter Maintenance Division, including a staff of four. In so doing, RUAG increases its share of the helicopter market in Switzerland and moves closer to customers from Zurich, the Grisons and eastern Switzerland. On 1 April 2010 RUAG... Read more
4-Feb-2010Source: HeliHub.com
Swiss operator Heli-Alps, based at Sion Airport, have recently acquired their first twin-engined helicopter – a Eurocopter AS355NP Twin Squirrel. The helicopter is leased from Sable Air, a Danish registered company owned by a private owner based in the UK, and this aircraft used to be his private aircraft. HeliHub.com notes that he while he... Read more
2-Feb-2010Source: HeliHub.com
This news item is part of the HeliHub.com “Register Updates†series, listing helicopters which have been added to a particular national register, removed from it or the listed owner has changed. Our coverage represents the majority of registration and owner changes within the global civilian helicopter fleet. Most updates are weekly or monthly, although some... Read more
6-Jan-2010Source: REGA press release translated and lightly edited.
On Sunday, a crew member of a REGA Swiss Air Ambulance helicopter was sadly killed while performing his job. Rega is extremely sad and condolences to the relatives of the deceased doctor and the relatives of the two who were killed also their heartfelt condolences. Rega had been called to an avalanche in Diemtigtal in... Read more
23-Dec-2009Source: Rotorhub
The Swiss federal procurement, technology and real estate competence centre, armasuisse, handed over the last of 20 EC635 helicopters to the Swiss Air Force.... Read more
21-Aug-2009
21-Aug-09 HB-XZN Robinson R22 Weienbrunnen, Swizerland... Read more
1-Jul-2009
1-Jul-09 V-277 Eurocopter SA316 nr Biasca, Switzerland... Read more