The six-acre Niagara Helicopters heliport (CPQ3) at the corner of Victoria Avenue and the Niagara Parkway in Niagara Falls, Ontario opened in 1964. Pan Air bought the business in 1978. Swiss-born Ruedi Hafen learned to fly there in 1982 and bought the company with to partners from Pan Air in 1985. The tour fleet was upgraded to five new Bell 407s in 1996. In December 2011, Helicopter Transport Services founded by Luc Pilon bought the company and upgraded the fleet to new Airbus H130s. More than 150 pilots learned to fly with Niagara here between 1964 and the mid-1980s when the school closed.

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