Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Helicopter operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,600 helicopter operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 85,062 professional contacts across them, including 21,531 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers helicopter operators worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for helicopter operators follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest helicopter operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,501 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Airbus is a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a worldwide scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 8,409 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thinking above and beyond is what we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,992 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bristow Group Inc.(NYSE: VTOL) is the leading global provider of innovative and sustainable vertical flight solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,764 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CHC provides unmatched helicopter services that enable our customers to reach beyond – to work in remote and challenging destinations that limit others – and come home safely.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,549 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Currently, Líder Aviação has five Business Units - Helicopter Operations, Executive Chartering, Aircraft Maintenance, Aircraft Sales and Ground Handling - that provide an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1949, PHI has provided safe and reliable helicopter transportation to more than 1 million passengers across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 828 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abu Dhabi Aviation (ADA) stands out as a global leader in aviation, truly a UAE Champion on a World stage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 718 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 681 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Helibras is a Brazilian company and the only helicopter manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 654 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1963, as a result of growing operational needs, an air service department was established within Pertamina called Pertamina Air Service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 613 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Babcock Italia è parte di Babcock International Group, operatore leader nei servizi di engineering nei settori Difesa, Energia, Telecomunicazioni e Trasporti, con un importante…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 595 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Legal bill on formation of Iran Aseman Airlines approved on June 16, 1980.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 594 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Falcon Aviation Services stands at the forefront of aviation excellence in the UAE and across the wider MENA region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 492 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heli-One is the world’s largest helicopter support company, specializing in maintenance, repair and overhaul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mavi Gök Airlines (MGA) was established and started to play an active role in the Aviation business based in Antalya, Türkiye, in March 2007.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Columbia Helicopters, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 443 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gulf Helicopters Company (GHC) is a vertically integrated helicopter company operating a fleet of more than 50 helicopters that provides full tip-to-tail MRO, CAMO, and training…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1985.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 401 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deccan Charters Private Limited (DCPL) is one of India’s largest General Aviation Services Company providing a complete suite of solutions ranging from Corporate Travel to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 386 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Caverton Helicopters is an aviation company engaged in contract charters, shuttles and maintenance of fixed and rotary wings aircrafts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 384 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NHV Group is one of the largest European helicopter operators and global launching customer of the next-generation helicopter, the H175s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 370 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Erickson is here to support reliable, safe and innovative aerial services, no matter where in the world our customers are.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 356 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada em 1972 em Foz do Iguaçu, a Helisul é a maior operadora de helicópteros monomotor da América Latina, oferecendo um portfólio completo de soluções para a aviação.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 341 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Private Aviation Company with 40 years of experience in selling executive aircrafts (airplanes and helicopters) and the most successful fractional program in Mexico since 1998…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: helicopter operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names helicopter operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of helicopter operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name helicopter operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Helicopter operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among helicopter operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for helicopter operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “helicopter operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names helicopter operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among helicopter operators, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 21,531 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Helicopter operators by location
15 lists · largest firstEvery Helicopter operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Helicopter operators based in the United States638
- Helicopter operators based in Canada197
- Helicopter operators based in the United Kingdom165
- Helicopter operators based in Australia133
- Helicopter operators based in India106
- Helicopter operators based in Brazil84
- Helicopter operators based in France83
- Helicopter operators based in Germany58
- Helicopter operators based in Switzerland56
- Helicopter operators based in Italy53
- Helicopter operators based in New Zealand52
- Helicopter operators based in South Africa43
- Helicopter operators based in Spain36
- Helicopter operators based in Türkiye31
- Helicopter operators based in the United Arab Emirates25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names helicopter operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many helicopter operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,600 helicopter operators worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Airbus Helicopters, headquartered in Marignane, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most helicopter operators?
The United States leads with 638 companies, followed by Canada (197) and the United Kingdom (165). Every helicopter operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most helicopter operators?
London leads with 29 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (23) and Dubai (16).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 21,531 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,600 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.