Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Search and rescue helicopter services worldwide
RevenueBase identified 288 search and rescue helicopter services worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 14,812 professional contacts across them, including 4,296 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Auckland the largest hub.
This list covers search and rescue helicopter services 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for search and rescue helicopter services 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 search and rescue helicopter services worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,046 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “One of the world’s leading emergency aerial services operators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 613 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 333 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 325 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LifeFlight is a world leader in aeromedical care, with a core purpose to save lives and serve the community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We provide world-class helicopter transportation for the energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hilfe in der Not: die ADAC Luftrettung im Einsatz Als Pioniere der Luftrettung helfen wir seit fast 55 Jahren Menschen in akuter gesundheitlicher Not.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With over 30 years of experience, HeliService is a global leader in offshore transportation, helicopter maintenance, and HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Services).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With operations spanning all three Canadian coasts, Custom Helicopters Ltd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For over 45 years, thanks to the generosity and support from people right across Northern NSW, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter has grown to become a vital 24-7 aeromedical operation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’re Coastguard Tautiaki Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand’s primary maritime search and rescue organisation, and we’re proudly a grassroots Kiwi charity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), and we fight every day to save lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1965, Air-Glaciers was born out of the desire of one man, Bruno Bagnoud, to put the resources to save lives whatever the conditions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WE ARE ELIFRIULIA Since more than 50 years we are always ready to supply a wide range of helicopter services in our home country, Italy, and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The North West Air Ambulance Charity’s helicopters and HEMS response vehicles operate 365 days a year and last year attended over 2500 incidents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are safety and aviation experts, taking on some of the most challenging assignments in helicopter aviation – from mission critical marine pilot transfers to complex search and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About us Thai Aviation Services Ltd,(TAS) is a privatly-owned Air Operator Certificate holder registered in Thailand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AIRLIFT IS NORTHERN EUROPE’S LEADING COMPANY FOR THE PROVISION OF ON-SHORE HELICOPTER SERVICES.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NHC Northern Helicopter GmbH – Reliable partner for offshore air rescue, offshore emergency evacuation, ambulance flight operations and passenger transport Impressum: Datenschutz:” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Microflite Aviation is a leading Australian helicopter operator delivering specialised aviation services across a range of complex and demanding environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Over 900 volunteers operate more than 30 marine rescue stations along the coast of British Columbia and in inland waters.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Company Growth History Established in 1992, Heliwest Group is Australia's leading on-shore helicopter company, with bases throughout Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HeliService USA is a leading provider of offshore helicopter services in the United States and the national leader in offshore hoisting operations - performing over hoists…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: search and rescue helicopter services. 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 search and rescue helicopter services.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of search and rescue helicopter services, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name search and rescue helicopter services. 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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Search and rescue helicopter services worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 search and rescue helicopter services, 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 search and rescue helicopter services are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “search and rescue helicopter services”. 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 search and rescue helicopter services), 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 search and rescue helicopter services, 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, 4,296 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 22, 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.
Search and rescue helicopter services by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Search and rescue helicopter services list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 search and rescue helicopter services, 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 search and rescue helicopter services are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 288 search and rescue helicopter services 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?
Bristow Group, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most search and rescue helicopter services?
The United States leads with 48 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (46) and Canada (34). Every search and rescue helicopter services list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most search and rescue helicopter services?
Auckland leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (4) and Christchurch (3).
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 4,296 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 288 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 22, 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.