Personnel

Despite the recent foundation of the company, our engineers, pilots, mechanics and avionics specialists, with many years of experience, reinforce the good reputation of Ukrainian Helicopters.

The core of our flight team consists of about one hundred fifty pilots and navigators and is managed by 10 key pilot-instructors with an average total time of between 8 to 15,000 flight hours.Pilots-in-command have 4,000 flying hours at an average. All crews are experienced in IFR operations, night, mountain, desert and tundra flying, aerial construction, search and rescue operations, flights with external loads and spill-way devices, passenger services and the carriage of dangerous goods.

Maintaining the qualifications of our pilots and support staff is one of the company's top priorities. Our pilots perform regular check and training at the famous Krememchug Flight College whilst engineering personnel attend various training courses at the aviation institutions of the Ukraine.

Our flight personnel, engineers and administrative staff are the people who represent the best traditions of the helicopter industry in the Ukraine, people who are committed to aviation and experts in technical matters who maintain a high level of operational discipline.

Our Maintenance Departmentconsists of more than 60 qualified specialists who meet that requirements.

The Company is administered by high level managers who combine their outstanding experience in the field of local and international aviation with a strategically oriented focus to expand and develop the activities of the company.

• 1992 - UN mission in Angola (passenger and cargo services, dangerous goods transportation, use of external load sling);
• 1993 - UN mission in Somalia (passenger and cargo services, dangerous goods transportation, use of external load sling);
• 1993 - oil companies support in Iran (passenger and cargo services, dangerous goods transportation, use of external load sling, assembling operations);
• 1995 - firefighting operations in Spain (using spill-way devices on external load sling);
• 1995-1997 - UN mission in Angola (passenger and cargo services, dangerous goods transportation, use of external load sling);
• 1997 - UN mission in Yugoslavia (passenger and cargo services, dangerous goods transportation, use of external load sling);
• 1996-2000, 2005 - firefighting operations in Turkey (using spill-way device on external load sling);
• 2001-2004 - forest fire fighting operations in Portugal (using spill-way device on external load sling);
• 2002-2004 - UN missions in Congo and Sudan Republics (passenger and cargo services, dangerous goods transportation, use of external load sling);
• 2005 – 2007 - UN World Food Program Earthquake Relief Mission in Pakistan (cargo service, evacuation operations).
• 2007 – 2008 - UN World Food Program Floods relief mission in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique, Madagascar).
• 2008 - UN World Food Program Floods relief mission in the Republic of Myanmar (cargo transportation, evacuation, external sling).
• 2007 – present time – UN Stabilization mission in Haiti (transportation of civilian passengers and peacekeeping corps, transportation of humanitarian aid cargoes).
• 2008-present time – UN peacekeeping missions in Darfur region and Sudan (transportation of civilian passengers and peacekeeping corps, transportation of humanitarian aid cargoes).
• 2008-present time – UN peacekeeping missions in the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire (transportation of civilian passengers and peacekeeping corps, transportation of humanitarian aid cargoes).