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DC Aviation Expands into Helo Flights
By: Thierry Dubois
Caption: Executive charter operator partners with Germany's BHS Helicopterservice.
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Germany’s DC Aviation has partnered with fellow German company BHS Helicopterservice, enabling DC Aviation to add charter helicopter flights to its business jet flights. BHS has handled factory helicopter travel for automotive supplier Brose since 2008. The companies are respectively based in Stuttgart and Bamberg.

So far, BHS has operated an Airbus Helicopters H135 and a Leonardo-Finmeccanica AW109 SP. Satellite telephones are available on board. In future, the fleet will be expanded to four helicopters, flying from Bamberg, Stuttgart and Zurich.

DC Aviation (Booth S052) signed another partnership with Lenz Aviation. The “strategic cooperation” with the Weinstadt-based company is meant to boost DC Aviation's core business – aircraft management. Lenz Aviation brings 20 years of experience with aircraft sales and brokerage, as well as the same services for yachts and cars to ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

Also part of the effort to expand the business, DC Aviation has appointed Exklusiv Aviation as its regional agent for the UK, as well as southern and western Switzerland. Exklusiv Aviation will promote DC Aviation’s aircraft management services and also offer aircraft for charter. DC Aviation claims to be Germany’s largest business jet operator and has branches in Dubai, Zurich, Malta and Moscow.

In Stuttgart this month, the company is expanding its maintenance capabilities with the addition of the Bombardier Challenger 850 to its portfolio.