Salus Aviation: Stronger together

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From its roots, Salus Aviation is constructing on the strengths of its three legacy corporations — Oceania Aviation and Airwork Helicopters, each based mostly in Auckland, New Zealand, and Heli-Elements Community, positioned in Boulder Metropolis, outdoors of Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Our official model launch as Salus Aviation is happening at Heli-Expo to showcase to the trade that we’re a global firm with the aptitude to achieve and assist prospects and operators across the globe,” stated Greg Edmonds, CEO of Salus Aviation. “We have now a historical past of offering high-quality merchandise, service and innovation throughout all the rotary- and fixed-wing capabilities — all constructed on a long time and a long time of expertise.”

Throughout all its amenities, Salus Aviation now presents a one-stop, nose-to-tail service for the aviation trade, offering complete and in depth helicopter upkeep, restore, and overhaul (MRO) that features service for dynamic elements, fuel generators, avionics, paint, blade restore, part-out, refit and tasks, element design and manufacturing.

Along with helicopter and fixed-wing plane gross sales and leasing, the fixed-wing amenities in Nevada and Hamilton, New Zealand, provide companies for avionics, paint, components, upkeep, elements, piston engines, CD-155 engine upgrades, propellers and instrument calibration.

“We have now a really deeply developed functionality. We have now half 145 certification throughout many international locations, together with half 146 design certification and half 148 manufacturing authority,” Edmonds stated. “This permits our personal in-house design workforce to develop modifications and new merchandise for each fixed-wing plane and helicopters, which we take proper by to STC [supplemental type certificate].”

The Salus operation at Ardmore Airport in Auckland is taken into account the core overhaul, upkeep and leasing suppliers for patrons positioned throughout all six continents, offering important companies for restore, overhaul, components provide, and engineering assist.

The now mixed Salus Aviation supplies better MRO companies for many helicopter varieties — Bell, Schweizer, Robinson, MD, Kawasaki, and Airbus — together with Honeywell/Lycoming and Rolls-Royce turbine upkeep and transmission overhaul.

“We’re bringing transmissions again to New Zealand for overhaul from Europe, the U.S., South America, Australia, and Africa, with Salus having a worldwide attain in heavy overhaul,” Edmonds stated. “And as we develop, we are going to put footprints in place on different continents for upkeep companies. We at the moment have upkeep functionality in every single place we function and lease plane.”

The corporate’s leasing portfolio focuses on Kawasaki and Airbus BK117s, and Airbus EC130 and AS350 fashions, with a fleet of 45 helicopters working in international locations world wide, together with New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Guinea, and Peru.

Edmonds is most happy with the long-standing partnerships Salus Aviation has with the search-and-rescue (SAR) companies in New Zealand.

“New Zealand’s geography and topography implies that we’ve a excessive want for helicopter emergency medical companies [HEMS],” Edmonds stated. “The companies are operated by charitable trusts, and we’re lucky to provide round 70 % of the HEMS plane.”

With a fleet of Kawasaki and Airbus BK117s in HEMS service in New Zealand, Salus supplies upkeep service to these plane seven days every week, in addition to all the road and heavy upkeep.

“We’re actually entrenched in HEMS on this a part of the world,” he stated. “Since we lease plane into the HEMS atmosphere in different international locations outdoors of New Zealand, we are able to do the fitment right into a HEMS configuration, and we’re additionally licensed to repurpose helicopters from HEMS.”

Salus Aviation within the U.S. — a 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) facility in Boulder Metropolis, Nevada — can also be concerned in HEMS plane service. Beforehand often called the Heli-Elements Community, along with helicopter upkeep, the operation manages the worldwide distribution of its in depth and complete half and element stock centered on the Airbus AS350 line.

“As in New Zealand, we’ve venture completion amenities in Nevada,” Edmonds stated. “For instance, with our buyer, Air Strategies, we take their plane out of the HEMS configuration on the finish of their time with the operator, and we repurpose them, repaint them, after which remarket the helicopters as utility, tourism, or VIP machines.”

Globally, Salus has a workforce of over 260 individuals unfold between Boulder Metropolis and in New Zealand — in Queenstown, Hamilton, and three amenities on the firm’s residence base at Ardmore Airfield.

The mixing of the three earlier operations in New Zealand and the U.S. will give Salus Aviation’s prospects improved service, as Edmonds continues the work wanted to carry the three corporations collectively as one group, with mixed methods and procedures.

“We’re underway with a lot of modifications that may make it simpler for our prospects and can enhance service supply, together with a simplified administration construction, cross-training of our engineers, and the consolidation of workshops and hangar amenities,” Edmonds stated.

New Zealand could also be a small nation with restricted assets, but it surely has a worldwide fame for innovation and creativity — values that Salus Aviation will proceed to emulate because it appears to increase its operations, based on Edmonds.

“Our preliminary development plans can have us specializing in the US and the North American market,” he stated. “With our funding in Nevada, we’re taking a look at important development in that area, and we are going to proceed to guage alternatives throughout Africa and Asia.”

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