Heli Malongo Aviação e Serviços de Angola, Lda is an
air charter operator headquartered in
Luanda
Luanda () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city in Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major Angola#Economy, industrial, Angola#Culture, cultural and Angola#Demographics, urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atl ...
,
Angola
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, which offers onshore and offshore flights in support of the
oil industry
The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products. The larges ...
in
Angola
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from its base at
Cabinda Airport.
Profile
At the 2008
Farnborough Air Show, Heli Malongo signed a deal with the
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Sikorsky Aircraft is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut. It was established by aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky in 1923 and was among the first companies to manufacture helicopters for civilian and military use.
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for the supply of three
Sikorsky S-76C++. This marked the first time Heli Malongo had ordered Sikorsky
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 ...
s. The
airline
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...
made the purchase in order to set up Angola's first
search and rescue service, allowing the company to further support the burgeoning oil industry in Angola. The three helicopters were delivered to Heli Malongo at a ceremony in
Coatesville, Pennsylvania
Coatesville is a city in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 13,350 at the 2020 census. Coatesville is approximately 39 miles west of Philadelphia. It developed along the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike beginning ...
on 20 January 2011
www.helimalongo.com
Fleet
The Heli Malongo Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2019):
References
Airlines of Angola
Companies based in Luanda
www.helimalongo.com
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