The British Helicopter Association is the UK industry association for helicopter transport.

History

The British Helicopter Advisory Board was formed in January 1969 at the instigation of some leading members of commercial

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

companies in the UK. They realised that there was no single authoritative voice speaking for the whole helicopter industry similar to organisations which represent other major aviation interests. In November 2008, it changed its name to the British Helicopter Association. There are about 1100 helicopters on the UK civil register. Helicopters have been used more recently in the UK for emergency services.

Structure

The BHA is a non-profit making organisation whose main objective is to promote the use of helicopters throughout the United Kingdom and to bring to the attention of potential users the advantages of owning or chartering a helicopter. The BHA has a small permanent Secretariat which is based at

Fairoaks Airport Fairoaks Airport is a general aviation airport between Chobham, Surrey, Chobham and Chertsey in Surrey, England. It is north of Woking and from Junction 11 of the M25 motorway which is between the M3 motorway (Great Britain), M3 and A3 road ( ...

in north-west Surrey. Past Chairmen have included the 4th Baron Glenarthur, who is now President. The current Chairman is Mr D J Stubbs.

External links

British Helicopter Association website
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History

Structure

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