Crews flying helicopters owned by Port Alberni-based Coulson Aviation that are fighting ... operates three twin-rotor Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter tankers on contract with the utility firm ...

Helicopters belonging to Port Alberni-based Coulson Aviation are “on the front line ... as well as a smaller Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, which are contracted with local utility Southern California ...

SINGAPORE—The New Zealand Defense Force says it has sold four of its former Air Force (RNZAF) Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules to American aerial firefighting company Coulson Aviation.

which is lower than the general aviation average but higher than commercial airline rates. The predominant factor in helicopter accidents is pilot error, according to the agency. Mechanical ...

“Once that tail boom was separated from the rest of the helicopter, then you could see it tumbling.” Joslin previously served as the Federal Aviation Administration’s chief scientific and ...

Sightseeing helicopters represented a small fraction of the more than 2,200 civil aviation helicopter accidents in the United States in that same period. The F.A.A. has specific rules for ...