Corporate Profile
Coulson Aircrane Ltd. is a privately owned family company based in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. The company has been in the aviation business for over 18 years and operates a fleet of light and heavy lift helicopters. The operations are fully supported in the field with qualified maintenance engineers and a supply of spare parts to maintain maximum operational availability. The company's aviation business includes helicopter maintenance facilities located in Port Alberni, B.C. on the west coast of Vancouver Island. These operations are ISO 9000 certified.
The company's operations include helicopter logging, forest fire suppression, power-line construction, airliner passenger transport and many other industrial heavy lift operations. The environmental program for Logging and Fire Suppression field operations is registered and certified by Quality Management Institute to the ISO14001:2004 EMS Standard. The helicopter services are provided in isolated locations across the province of British Columbia and within the other provinces Canada and within the United States, the States of Alaska, California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Nevada and recently in Victoria State, Australia and Azerbaijan. The fleet is geared for mobility and self-sufficiency and is supported by mobile fuel tankers and aircraft maintenance service vehicles staffed with qualified engineers. These helicopter aviation services are provided to clients on a "turn key" basis.
Aviation Safety
Coulson has flown over 93,000 safe flight hours in 19 years of operation. Coulson is committed to a safe work environment, throughout all its operations. To ensure the safety of all passengers familiarity sessions will be arranged for all crews that will be assigned or dispatched with the helicopter. All safety features, safety zones:
- Full cabin briefing during crew deployments or repositioning
- Full operational briefing prior to any none full landing crew let offs
( toe ins) - Full operational briefing and mock-ups prior winching operations and any other training as required for re-currency
- Safety briefing/training to fire crews in and around helicopters
- Safety briefing/training for crews operating in the vicinity of heavy lift operations
Safe Aerial operations in remote mountainous situations are enhanced with use of twin turbine power helicopters such as the S61. As well, the use of long lines and grapples significantly reduce the risks related to rotor wash or vortices when operating in restricted treed mountainous terrain.
Each of the COULSON helicopters are equipped, maintained and operated in strict compliance with all applicable law and regulations.
Coulson Aviation Clients
Current and past clients include:
| Wildfire Suppression & Passenger Operations |
Helicopter Logging |
Other Heavy Lift Operations |
| Province of B.C. B.C. Forest Service |
Coulson Forest Products Ltd | Dept. Fisheries and Oceans |
| Province of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development Forest Protection |
Hecate Logging Ltd | BC Hydro |
| Province of Manitoba Manitoba Conservation Fire Program |
Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd | Gibraltar Rock Drilling |
| Province of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources |
Timberwest Forest Corp. | Great Slave Helicopters Ltd |
| Province of Quebec (Societe de protection des forets contre le feu) |
Western Forest Products Ltd | National Marine Mammal Laboratory |
| US Forest Service | The Pas Lumber Ltd. | Pacific Adjusters |
| US Bureau of Land Management |
East West Transportation | Pacific Erosion Control Systems |
| National Aerial Firefighting Centre Melbourne Australia |
Croman Corp. | Pacific Northern Gas |
| Helijet Airways Vancouver & Victoria BC | West Coast Diving Contractors | |
| US Navy Barking Sands, Hawaii |
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| CHC Oil and Gas - Azerbaijan |
The Coulson Group of Companies - Head Office:
4890 Cherry Creek Road, Port Alberni, BC, Canada V9Y 8E9 Phone: (250) 723-8118 Fax: (250) 723-7766
