Heli Air Services is a

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based in

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History

The airline was founded in 1990. The airline mainly transports passengers, cargo and mail. At first, Heli Air only operated helicopters and subsequently incorporated the

Antonov An-12 The Antonov An-12 ( Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

Antonov An-24 The Antonov An-24 (Russian/ Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by the Kyiv ...

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and

Let L-410 The Let L-410 Turbolet is a twin-engine short-range transport aircraft designed and produced by the Czech aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice (named Aircraft Industries since 2005). It was developed as the ''L-400'' during the 1960s in response t ...

into its fleet. Since 1999, Heli Air started to operate primarily on programs of

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and

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(UN - WFP), and performed thousands of flying hours in difficult accessible locations and troubled countries such as

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and others.

Fleet

The Heli Air fleet includes the following aircraft: *2 L410 UVP-E20 *2

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References

External links

Official website
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