Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a St. John's based commercial helicopter company servicing

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fields off the coast of Newfoundland. Cougar has permanent facilities in St. John's and Halifax. The company is affiliated with Bristow Helicopters which has a financial stake in Cougar.

Services

Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and ships located off Newfoundland in the: *

Hibernia oil field Hibernia is an oil field in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately east-southeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, in 80 m of water.Hurley, T.J., Kreisa, R.D., Taylor, G.G., and Yates, W.R.L., 1992, The Reservoir Geology and Geophysics ...

* Terra Nova oil field * White Rose oil field *

Hebron-Ben Nevis oil field Hebron Oil Field, located off the coast of Newfoundland, is the fourth field to come on to production in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin. Discovered in 1981 and put online in 2017, the Hebron field is estimated to contain over 700 million barrels of produci ...

Fleet

As of October 2020, Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of ten Sikorsky S-92A and one Bell 412.

Incidents and accidents

On 12 March 2009,

Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 was a scheduled flight of a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A ( Registration C-GZCH) which ditched on 12 March 2009 en route to the ''SeaRose'' FPSO in the White Rose oil field and Hibernia Platform in the Hibernia oilfield o ...

, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of Newfoundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of the 18 people on board died in the crash.No sign of 16 missing after Canadian chopper crash (update 5)
Reuters, 12 March 2009

References

External links

Cougar Helicopters

VIH Aviation Group
{{Airlines of Canada Regional airlines of Atlantic Canada Helicopter airlines Companies based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador