Custom Helicopters

Custom Helicopters Ltd. is a Manitoba helicopter operator based at St Andrews. The company states that it was founded in 1977 as a single helicopter operation in The Pas, Manitoba, and it is part of Exchange Income Corporation, a Canadian investment company. It holds Canadian Transportation Agency air licences 962347 and 967122.

The company states that it operates from bases across Canada and lists power and telecommunications line construction and maintenance, mineral exploration, wildfire work, search and rescue support and surveillance among its services. Mineral exploration, it says, has been at the core of its business since 1977, including work in the high Arctic. It flies air ambulance missions with Sikorsky S-76C+ and S-76C++ helicopters fitted with medical interiors and crewed with advanced care paramedics, flight nurses and respiratory therapists, and it offers night flying with white phosphor night vision goggles.

The company states that its fleet has grown to more than 35 helicopters. Transport Canada's register lists 12 Airbus H125 and AS350 helicopters, eight Bell 206L LongRangers, six Bell 206 JetRangers, five Sikorsky S-76s, four Bell 407s, three Airbus AS332 Super Pumas, two Bell 204 or 205 series helicopters, a Bell 412 and a Leonardo AW139 on its licences. The company has shown one of its AS332L2 Super Pumas fitted with a belly tank for wildfire work. No third party safety audit is published for the company.