Holt Helicopter

Holt Helicopters is a family owned helicopter company based in Uvalde, Texas, at the edge of the Texas Hill Country and the brush country to the south. It has provided helicopter services since 1981, holds an FAA Part 133 external load certificate and flies a Robinson R66, a five seat turbine helicopter.

Most of its work supports the ranches of South and West Texas. It flies wildlife surveys of deer, exotics and predators to help landowners plan their harvests, wildlife captures for the state's Deer Management Program and for exotic species, and predator control for feral hogs, coyotes, bobcats and foxes. It also gathers cattle by helicopter.

The company flies external load jobs and aerial patrols of powerlines and pipelines.

In summer, it offers helicopter rides near Concan, the popular river town on the Frio River, on most Thursdays to Saturdays, weather permitting. The Frio's clear water, cypress lined banks and limestone bluffs draw crowds of visitors every summer, and a short flight shows the river and the surrounding hills from above.