Bond Offshore Helicopters

Bond Offshore Helicopters is a British helicopter operator, specialising in providing offshore helicopter transportation services to North Sea and Irish Sea oil and gas platforms.

Bond Offshore Helicopters operates a mixed fleet of 24 helicopters on behalf of more than 10 major customers. Annually they transport around 200,000 men and women to and from offshore oil and gas platforms from bases in Aberdeen, Humberside, Norwich, Blackpool and Sumburgh. Bond Offshore also operates two specialist Search and Rescue (SAR) aircraft to support the Oil and Gas industry. These two AS332L2 helicopters are based at Aberdeen airport and equipped with specialist search and rescue equipment and provide 24 hour SAR coverage for the central North Sea.

Bond Offshore Helicopters became a Babcock International Group company when Babcock acquired the Avincis group in May 2014.

Founder

David Bond (1920-1977), founder of the Bond company, was a wartime Lancaster pilot (90 Squadron) who set up his own company in 1946 and flew Austers, Lancastrians and Halifaxes for air taxis and charter work. He switched to helicopters in 1953 and was involved in crop-spraying in Jamaica and Honduras, surveying in Algeria, and flying for Marley Tiles before launching the company which was to become Bond Aviation.