K & D Aviation

K and D Aviation is a turbine helicopter operator in Oklahoma with its main base and maintenance shop in Durant, near the Texas border, and a second location in Tulsa covering northeast Oklahoma and surrounding states. It holds an FAA Part 135 certificate and flies Bell 407 and Bell 206L LongRanger helicopters, along with a Robinson for patrol and training.

The company offers passenger charter, including executive flights and event and scenic flights. One of its Bell 407s has an executive cabin, and both the 407 and the LongRanger seat a pilot and six passengers. From Durant and Tulsa, charters can reach Dallas, Oklahoma City, Lake Texoma, Grand Lake and the casino resorts of southern and eastern Oklahoma.

Most of its flying is contract work across the lower 48 states. It flies powerline patrols, including routine, post storm and right of way flights, and infrared inspections with FLIR cameras, including line scans, substation surveys and night operations. It also flies pipeline, construction and mapping surveys, offers drone inspections alongside crewed patrols, and dry leases aircraft to qualified operators.

The company says it covers a home region within about 150 nautical miles of its bases and deploys aircraft and crews nationwide for longer contracts.