Our experience

From the commencement of our operations the company has been promoted as an organization aimed to provide the wide range of aviation services including but not limited to transportation, search and rescue operations, special engineering works and others. Geography of our activities is constantly expanding.

Starting with oil wells support works at Western Siberia, our aircrafts were later directed to the opposite part of the world. In 2004, on request of the Portugal Civil Protection Department, five helicopters have been undertaking forest fire fighting operations on the territory of this EU member state. Despite of intensive and complicated character of operations performed by our flight crews neither aviation incidents nor technical failures occurred and, consequently, we received a lot of favorable comments from the officials and citizens of Portugal.

In 2005 – 2006 Ukrainian helicopters performed forest firefighting operations in Turkey upon a request of the Ministry of Forestry of that country. In different times 3-5 helicopters Mi-8 MTV-1 (Mi – 17-1B) were assigned to the operations. Our helicopters performed work in hard-to-get regions, not reachable by other vehicles. In total crews spent about 720 hours in the air. They managed to save thousands of hectares of green woodlands from destruction and received positive reference concerning successful and effective work of its flight personnel in Turkey.

In 2005 Ukrainian Helicopters started performing aerial services in suffered from earthquake Pakistan on behalf of UN World Food Programme. This operation lasted for 8 months. This humanitarian mission consisted in performing aero-medical/casualty evacuation (MEDEVAC), air transportation of the hard-to-reach mountainous area’s inhabitants and carrying cargo, using external sling load.

This mission was the biggest mission of United Nations World Food Programme that engaged helicopters. Nine of them were provided by our aviation company – it is more than by anyone else among other international operators of rotary-wing aircrafts. Thus, company Ukrainian Helicopters has certified its ability to concentrate considerable amount of aircraft while performing urgent operations in extraordinary circumstances and secure high quality standards while doing this. In general helicopters’ crews spent over 4 000 hours in the sky of Pakistan, transported 13 700 passengers and 6 100 tons of cargos.

In 2006 helicopters of the company performed work on providing humanitarian support in the Middle East serving to the interests of the Government of Canada. Hundreds of civilians, foreign experts, representatives of diplomatic missions were evacuated from Beirut which heavily suffered from war conflict.

Aviation Company Ukrainian Helicopters continues to expand the geography of its activity. Except for Pakistan currently our aircraft are taking part in humanitarian missions in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia which suffered from severe floods.

Despite of the difficult natural conditions, the Ukrainian pilots do their utmost to support the population of these countries to hold out against the dramatic situation. During the operations our helicopters transported 1.550 tons of humanitarian cargoes and evacuated more than 2.300 passengers from the disaster area.

The company also provides crew training services to foreign aviation enterprises. Our pilots' wide experience in operating Mi-8MTV-1 was rendered to the helicopter operators from Senegal, Israel, Portugal, and Great Britain to master piloting skills on this type of aircrafts