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Cougar Helicopters
Cougar Helicopters Incorporated • Terra Nova Field
• White Rose Field
• Hebron-Ben Nevis Field
• Deep Panuke Field
Fleet
IATA ICAO Callsign
- CHI COUGAR
Founded Halifax, Nova Scotia
Commenced 1987
operations
Hubs St. John’s, Newfoundland
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Destinations Hibernia GBS
White Rose oil field
Terra Nova
Parent company VIH Aviation Group
Headquarters St. John’s, Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada
Key people Ken Norie, President and CEO
Hank Williams, General Manager[1] Cougar Helicopter, St. Johns, NflL
Website www.cougar.ca/
Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of heavy and medium
Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a class helicopters:
St. John’s based commercial helicopter company servic- • Sikorsky S-92
ing offshore oil and gas fields off the coast of Newfound- • Sikorsky S-76
land and Nova Scotia. Cougar has permanent facilities in • Sikorsky S-61N
St. John’s and Halifax. • Bell 222U - primarily operate as Air Ambulances
Services Incidents and accidents
On 12 March 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, a Cougar
Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and
crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of New-
foundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of
the 18 people on board perished in the crash.[2]
References
[1] "Oil industry helicopter carrying 18 crashes into
Atlantic Ocean". CBC News. 12 March 2009.
Sikorsky S-92 landing at Ilulissat Airport, Greenland. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-
labrador/story/2009/03/12/offshore-
Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and helicopter.html.
ships located off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the:
• • Hibernia Field
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[2] No sign of 16 missing after Canadian chopper crash
(update 5). Reuters, 12 March 2009
External links
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ • Cougar Helicopters
story/2009/03/18/service-helicopter-crash.html • VIH Aviation Group
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cougar_Helicopters&oldid=454149399"
Categories:
• Regional airlines of Atlantic Canada
• Helicopter airlines
• Companies based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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