Summit Helicopters is a Canadian aviation company that provides charter services throughout remote areas of

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and northern Canada as well as the

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and

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. Summit Helicopters is a member of the

Ledcor Group of Companies Ledcor Group of Companies is an employee-owned, diversified, and vertically-integrated construction company operating primarily in Canada and United States. Ledcor operates in a wide range of industries including the construction of buildings and ...

and is a sister company to Summit Air. Summit Helicopters operates 6 different types of helicopters, all equipped with "onboard satellite phone, portable phone, next generation satellite tracking, and

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approved medevac kit."Fleet
/ref> Depending on the service, required optional equipment includes " wildlife antennae, camera mounts, utility baskets, and emergency and fixed floats".

History

The Det'on Cho Corporation and three

Yellowknife Yellowknife (; Dogrib: ) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the ...

residents, Rob Carroll, Kevin Lang and Geoff Furniss, founded Trinity Helicopters in 2009. They quickly grew to a fleet of 17 helicopters operating in all three northern Canadian territories. In January 2013, Ledcor Air Limited, a member of the Ledcor Group of Companies, purchased Trinity Helicopters and subsequently renamed the company Summit Helicopters. Summit acquired CC Helicopters of Kamloops in 2014. CC Helicopters had over 30 years of experience in the British Columbia Interior and operated a fleet of light, intermediate, and medium helicopters with

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(IFR) and

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(VFR) crews based at

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and

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. CC Helicopters also specialized in BC Air Ambulance medevac, oil and gas exploration and support, forestry survey and protection, environmental and wildlife survey, and power line support. In addition to its headquarters in Yellowknife, Summit Helicopters now operates out of five bases: Kamloops, Terrace, Fort McMurray, Lillooet, and

Norman Wells Norman Wells (Slavey language: ''Tłegǫ́hłı̨'' "where there is oil") is a town located in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories, Canada, settled about 140 km (87 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. The town, which hosts the Sahtu Regional o ...

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Fleet

As of March 2016, Summit Helicopters has the following aircraft registered with

(TC).

References

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