Heli Holland is a Dutch

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 ...

operator. Services provided include

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, offshore transport,

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, medical flights, freight transport and aerial inspection flights. It also performs helicopter maintenance and trading. Operating bases are

Lelystad Airport Lelystad Airport is an airport south southeast of the city of Lelystad in Flevoland, Netherlands. It is the biggest general aviation airport in the Netherlands. The first flights were in 1971 and it became an official airport in 1973. Schiphol ...

, Amsterdam Heliport and a company owned heliport in Emmer Compascuum, which is also the location of the company's head office. It is the largest helicopter operator in the Netherlands.

Fleet

Fleet as per December 2008: * Cessna 402B (1x) * Airbus H175 (1x) *

Eurocopter EC 155 The Eurocopter EC155 (now Airbus Helicopters H155) is a long-range medium-lift passenger transport helicopter developed by Eurocopter from its Dauphin family for civil aviation use. It is a twin-engined aircraft and can carry up to 13 passenger ...

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Eurocopter EC 130 The Eurocopter EC130 (now Airbus Helicopters H130) is a single engine light utility helicopter developed from the earlier Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil, one of the primary changes from which was the adoption of a Fenestron anti-torque device in pla ...

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Eurocopter EC 120 The Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) EC120 Colibri ("hummingbird") is a five-seat, single-engine, light utility helicopter. Jointly designed and developed by Eurocopter, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation (CATIC), Ha ...

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Eurocopter AS355 Airbus Helicopters SAS (formerly Eurocopter Group) is the helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries. Its head office is located at Marseille Provence Ai ...

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Bell 206 Long Ranger The Bell 206 is a family of two-bladed, single- and twin-engined helicopters, manufactured by Bell Helicopter at its Mirabel, Quebec, plant. Originally developed as the Bell YOH-4 for the United States Army's Light Observation Helicopter progra ...

(1x) * Bell 206 Jet Ranger (1x) * Schweizer / Hughes 300 (3x) *

Schweizer 330 The Schweizer 330 and S333 are turbine-powered developments of the Schweizer 300 light piston-powered helicopter. As of 2007, only the Schweizer 333 remains in production. In February 2009, the 333 was rebranded as the Sikorsky S-333. In 2018 the ...

(2x)

Accident

On 27 June 2010 a Eurocopter EC 130 operated by Heli Holland crashed in the

Maasvlakte The Maasvlakte () is a massive man-made westward extension of the Europoort port and industrial facility within the Port of Rotterdam. Situated in the municipality of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the Maasvlakte is built on land reclaimed fr ...

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

, killing four of the five people on board and badly injuring the remaining occupant. Three of the passengers were photographers capturing the ''Tour du Port'' amateur cycling event, which was organized in anticipation of the start of the

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in the Netherlands a week later. The cause of the crash could not be determined with certainty.

References

External links

Heli Holland - official website
{{Airlines of the Netherlands Airlines of the Netherlands Airlines established in 1976 Helicopter airlines