3 May 2007

SAS Opens Helicopter Maintenance Base at Newcastle Heliport.

Specialist Aviation Services Ltd (SAS) has opened its doors to customers at its new Newcastle maintenance base this month.

As well as being a firmly established operator of air ambulances and police helicopters throughout the UK, the Gloucestershire based group specialises in Part 145 maintenance for private and commercial helicopter operators.

The group, which also specialises in twin rotary IR training, has taken on the lease of a newly approved hangar facility at Newcastle Heliport and will focus primarily on single and twin turbines. It can provide ad-hoc maintenance services for private owners as well as managed maintenance contracts for commercial operators.

As Group Technical Director, Phil Johns explains “We’ve been supporting the emergency services in the region round the clock, seven days a week for many years, so we already have the engineers in place and we have an excellent track record in providing support. So having our own base here now means that we can extend our services to the growing commercial market in the area”

Helicopter types currently covered by the company approvals include AS 355 Twin Squirrel, Bell 206 as well as the MD Helicopters range.