Cessna 560XL Citation Excel, N202RL, departing Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia.

RCAF CF-18 188925 visiting Vancouver International Airport from 410 Squadron based at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta.

RCAF CF-18 188924 visiting Vancouver International Airport from 410 Squadron based at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta.

Talon Helicopters Airbus AS350B-2, C-FTHZ, departing Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia. This aircraft has been part of the Talon fleet since December 1997. In April 2025, Talon owned two 350B-2s, one 355F2, one 355N, one AS365N-2 and five AS365N-3.

This Bo 105CBS was first flown in Germany as D-HDHX prior to delivery to MBB Helicopter Corp in the USA as N46984 and sale to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. (Tenneco) as N3537T. It was originally used for offshore pipeline support and onshore patrols from Houma, LA. Tenneco became part of the ANR Pipeline Co. which El Paso Corp sold to Trans Canada Pipeline in 2007. TC replaced its Bo 105s with AW119 Koalas and N3537T was sold by GM Leasing (Arrow Aviation) to National Helicopters in Canada as C-FNHE in Dec 2010 for use on a HEMS contract in Saint Maarten. To the USA in Dec. 2023 as N525Z.

In June 2009, Trans Canada Pipeline's ANR Pipeline Company ordered three AW119s to support offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The AW119s replaced MBB Bo 105s Trans Canada inherited when it bought the former Tenneco Energy pipeline from El Paso Corp n in 2007. Tenneco was one of the first Bo 105 customers in the US in 1973. N963TC was built in Philadelphia, PA and delivered to TC's helicopter base at Harry P Williams Memorial Airport, Patterson, LA in 2009. In January 2018 it was exported to Argentina and joined the Argentine National Gendarmerie fleet after refurbishment.

Christus Health's Flight For Life program has been serving East Texas since 1985 with service today provided within a 150-mile radius of its helicopter bases in Palestine, Longview, Wills Point and Mount Pleasant, TX. PHI Air Medical has been the operator since 2018, with a fleet that includes H145 N745TX based at East Texas Regional Airport, Airbus H135 N380PH and Bell 407s N744TX and N407LN. PHI also operates EMS H145s in Houston, TX and St Louis, MO and is adding three H145s to replace two S-76C++ for the Cleveland Clinic that are based at Burke Lakefront Airport and Wadsworth Airport, OH.

This early serial number Bell 429 (msn 57009) was built in Mirabel, Quebec and test flown as C-GFNN before being exported to the US and registered to Bell as N429NA for useably the Bell Training Academy to train new customer pilots in Texas. The Training Academy returned to its former location at the Bell headquarters Fort Worth (Hurst) Texas in August 2015 after Bell moved its Customer Center and Customer Training Academy into former Gulfstream facilities at Fort Worth Alliance Airport. The Academy provides pilot and maintenance training for most Bell commercial helicopter models.

Exxon Mobil Corp took delivery of this S-76C, N274X, from Sikorsky in January 1996 to transport crews to offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The helicopter was operated by International Helicopter Transport, Inc. (IHTI) which was a subsidiary of Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. (small logo behind the cockpit door) dedicated exclusively to Exxon Mobil and had its own colours, aircrews and more maintenance practices (i.e. lower component TBOs). To PHI in Nov. 2015. To Arrow Aviation Company in Broussard, LA in Dec. 2015. Parted out and cancelled in May 2019.

Agusta brought this new A109C, N1WD, to Toronto in August 1990 to show it to prospective customers. Demo flights were conducted from Toronto Island Airport (CYTZ) where it was photographed flying past the CN Tower. The helicopter was purchased by Leffler Transportation Company. Crashed in eastern Pennsylvania on at 19:05 local time on Jan. 18, 1995 on a flight from Williamsport, PA (IPT) to a company heliport in Richland, PA (PS96) killing the pilot and two employees. Flew IFR to Harrisburg, then VFR when it entered low clouds. Probable cause: spatial disorientation, darkness and poor weather.

This Cessna 208B, N29AN, was photographed behind the former Bell P-39 factory at Niagara Falls International Airport on December 23, 2006. It's been registered to Southern Aero Inc. in New Mexico since at least 2018 and now carries a white colour scheme with grey trim and a black cargo pod.

Cessna A185F, C-FDFF, was photographed on May 1, 2004 at the Air St-Maurice Inc. floatplane base on Lac-à-Beauce (CSS7), which is 10 km south of La Tuque Airport (YLQ) in Quebec. The aircraft was registered to Aviation 2000 Inc. in 2004 and to Hydravion Québec RT Inc. in 202% at the same address.

This 1982 Bell JetRanger was imported by Huisson Aviation Ltd. of Timmins, ON in 1987. Hussion Aviation was acquired by Luc Pilon who formed his first helicopter company in 1976 and later established Helicopter Transportation Services Corp (HTSC) with its headquarters in Carp, ON, bases in many parts of Canada, and a US-based sister company in Aurora, Oregon. HTSC bought Niagara Helicopters from Reudi Hafen in late 2011 and replaced its five Bell 407s with four Airbus EC 130 T2s in 2015 for its nine-minute sightseeing flights. Niagara has also operated JetRanger C-GJWL since January 2023.

Helicopter sightseeing has been one of the attractions in Niagara Falls, Ontario since the early 1960s. The first Niagara Helicopters operated a large flight training school in the 1960s and 1970s were low time students would build time flying tourists in Bell 47s. Today's Niagara Helicopters began as PanAir Helicopter Services which was bought by Reudi Hafen in the mid-1980s. Hafen sold the company to Helicopter Transportation Services in 2012, which introduced four EC 130 T2s in 2015 for its nine-minute sightseeing flights over The Falls. Six new Airbus H130s were ordered in February 2024.

Robinson R44 II, C-GKLD, of The Helicopter Company is seen here departing Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (from the US departures area) on December 21, 2024 on a seven- to eight-minute sightseeing tour over downtown Toronto. It was imported new from the factory in September 2021 by Grand Falls Aviation Service Ltd., of Grand Falls, NB, sold to RT Flight Group in Chilliwack, BC in November 2023, and acquired by The Helicopter Company in February 2024. The tour company has also owned R44 II, C-GSTL, since October 2018.

This MBB Bo 105CBS-4 was flown in Germany as D-HDXT then shipped to MBB Helicopter Corp in West Chester, PA and registered N725MB. It was transferred to MBB Canada in 1987 and upgraded to a Bo 105 S CDN-BS-4 prior to its sale to Sunrise Helicopters of Inuvik, NWT as C-FDXG in May 1989. In January 1991 it was sold to ALC Airlift (which operated STARS) and to Vancouver Helicopters in June 1993. Exported to the US in March 1994 as N725MB. To National Helicopter Services Ltd of Trinidad and Tobago as 9Y-THP in 1995.

Photographed undergoing completion at the MBB Helicopter Canada facility in Fort Erie, Ontario. The helicopter was registered as D-HBCA for initial testing then first flown as C-FIOM in 1989 (after Imperial Oil retired their Grumman G-159, C-FIOM). Between June 1991 and May 1992, the BK117 was leased to the Canadian Armed Forces as 143106 to flight test systems developed for the New Shipborne Aircraft (NSA) by Honeywell Canada. In the Spring of 1992 it was leased to Heliflyg in Sweden as SE-JBK for HEMS trials before returning to Canada as C-FIOM to join STARS in June 1993.

Coulson Aircrane acquired this former CHC Helicopters Sikorsky S-76B from the Netherlands for spare parts. It was delivered new to KLM Helikopters as PH-NZU and also operated in the UK as G-UKLU. It was photographed outside the Coulson hangar at Port Alberni - Alberni Valley Regional Airport in February 2014.

This Coulson Aircrane Bell 206B, C-GXOH, was supporting Coulson's Sikorsky S-61N, C-FMAY, which was logging cedar trees on the west coast of Vancouver Island at Toquart Bay, which is in Barley Sound, about 30 km northeast of Ucluelet, BC. The S-61N used a grapple to pick up logs and drop them in a clearing beside a logging road. The The S-61N and 206B were based in a logging camp just north of the Secret Beach campground on Toquart Bay and all the logging took place on the east side of the bay.

This 1948 Stinson 108-3 was based in northwest Ontario until 2008 when it was acquired by private owners in Whistler, British Columbia and based on Green Lake.