HBG France

HBG France operates as Mont Blanc Hélicoptères, an air carrier founded in 1980 and based at Annemasse in Haute-Savoie. It belongs to the HBG group, alongside the group companies Hélicoptères de France, FHATO, Swiftcopters and Eagle Valais. The company holds DGAC air operator certificate FR.AOC.0038 and appears on the regulator's December 2025 list of French helicopter operators with a valid certificate.

The company lists locations across the Alps and beyond, including Annemasse, Megève, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Les Arcs, Samoëns, Grenoble, Gap, Nice, Paris Saclay Versailles, Geneva and Sion. It offers transfer flights, sightseeing flights over the Mont Blanc and other sites, gastronomic flights, skier pickups, heliskiing, mountain rescue, pilot training and aerial work. Its subsidiary MBH SAMU, founded in 2002, flies emergency medical helicopters for hospitals including Créteil, Avignon, Marseille, Mulhouse, Nancy, Reims, Amiens and Laon, and in French Guiana, and the company states that it handles the rescue of injured skiers in the Portes du Soleil and Grand Massif areas.

The company states that it has 30 single and twin turbine helicopters seating three to six passengers, maintained in its own workshops and used for passenger transport, flight training, aerial work, medical transport and forest firefighting. The fleet recorded for HBG France includes 20 Airbus H125 or AS350 Ecureuil, four AS355 Twin Squirrel, three H135, two AS365 Dauphin and one H145 helicopters, plus three Robinson R44s. No third party safety audit is published for the company.