Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 321 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 10,482 professional contacts across them, including 3,562 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers small airlines and helicopter airlines companies 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for small airlines and helicopter airlines companies 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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,699 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’re not your average airline.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 721 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Canadian North connects people and delivers essential goods throughout Northern communities in Canada – safely, reliably and always with friendly and helpful customer service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 485 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Air Inuit fournit des services essentiels de transport aérien régulier, nolisé, de cargo et d'urgence au Nunavik et au-delà, 24 heures par jour, 365 jours par année, et ce, depuis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Canadian Helicopters is a diversified company providing helicopter charter, maintenance support and flight training services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 228 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1982 with two small seaplanes, Harbour Air is North America’s largest seaplane airline.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For over 35 years, Air Tindi has been a Northern based airline headquartered in Yellowknife, NWT.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Avantto é empresa líder no segmento de compartilhamento de aeronaves executivas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Helijet is proud to have been a part of the growth of British Columbia for the past three decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maverick Helicopters' commitment to excellence in service is only matched by its commitment to safety.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’re an Alaskan-owned business known for our strong track record of safety, and for being one of the friendliest airlines in Alaska-we truly care about our customers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1992, Seaborne Airlines is the world’s only seaplane operator certified under FAR Part 121 and provides essential inter-island air service in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “McDermott Aviation stands as Australia’s largest privately owned heli-aviation company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Referência em transporte aéreo de passageiros, aeromédico e cargas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GSH is a helicopter company with a long standing reputation for safety, a diverse range of specialized services and outstanding job completion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Key Lime Air operates a fleet of over 30 aircraft that fly more than hours annually.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FRE/ACE® provides exceptional cargo and passenger air services from our base in Milwaukee, WI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Summit Helicopters has the right mix of aircraft and experienced pilots to fulfill any of your helicopter requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blue Hawaiian is Hawaiʻi’s premier adventure and experiences company, offering award-winning helicopter tours and curated island activities across Maui, Oʻahu, Kauaʻi, and Hawaiʻi…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based at Fairoaks Airport, just south west of London and Kemble Aerodrome in Gloucestershire Starspeed manages and charters a fleet of some of the most modern corporate and VIP…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1990, Sharp Airlines is a vibrant regional aviation business serving FIFO, charter and freight markets nationally, and airline services to the King and Flinders islands…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: small airlines and helicopter airlines companies. 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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of small airlines and helicopter airlines companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name small airlines and helicopter airlines companies. 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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Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies, 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
- 5 countries, largest first: the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, the United Kingdom. Country and city lists for small airlines and helicopter airlines companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “small airlines and helicopter airlines companies”. 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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies), 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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies, 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, 3,562 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 19, 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.
Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies based in the United States125
- Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies based in Canada91
- Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies based in Australia47
- Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies based in Brazil32
- Small airlines and helicopter airlines companies based in the United Kingdom26
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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies, 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 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 321 small airlines and helicopter airlines companies 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?
SUN Country Airlines, headquartered in Minneapolis, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most small airlines and helicopter airlines companies?
The United States leads with 125 companies, followed by Canada (91) and Australia (47). Every small airlines and helicopter airlines companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most small airlines and helicopter airlines companies?
Sao Paulo leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Anchorage (7) and London (7).
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 3,562 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 321 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 19, 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.