Cougar Helicopters
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| Founded | Halifax, Nova Scotia | |||
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| Commenced operations | 1987 | |||
| Hubs | St. John's, Newfoundland Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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| Destinations | Hibernia GBS White Rose oil field Terra Nova |
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| Parent company | VIH Aviation Group | |||
| Headquarters | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada | |||
| Key people | Ken Norie, President and CEO Hank Williams, General Manager[1] |
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| Website | www.cougar.ca/ | |||
Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a St. John's based commercial helicopter company servicing offshore oil and gas fields off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Cougar has permanent facilities in St. John's and Halifax.
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[edit] Services
Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and ships located off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the:
[edit] Fleet
Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of heavy and medium class helicopters:
- Sikorsky S-92
- Sikorsky S-76
- Sikorsky S-61N
- Bell 222U - primarily operate as Air Ambulances
[edit] Incidents and accidents
On 12 March 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of Newfoundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of the 18 people on board perished in the crash.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Oil industry helicopter carrying 18 crashes into Atlantic Ocean". CBC News. 12 March 2009. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/03/12/offshore-helicopter.html.
- ^ No sign of 16 missing after Canadian chopper crash (update 5). Reuters, 12 March 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/03/18/service-helicopter-crash.html
[edit] External links
Media related to Cougar Helicopters at Wikimedia Commons- Cougar Helicopters
- VIH Aviation Group
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