Keeping helicopters aloft
Lithuania-based Helisota (Hangar I, Stand B16) is a long-established provider of integrated maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for rotorcraft. The company is an EASA Part 145 and Part 147 organisation as well as an authorised Mil Helicopters and Robinson R44 service centre, supporting various government and private rotorcraft operators from 25 countries worldwide. Helicopters serviced are the Russian Mil Mi-8T (P, PS), Mi-8MT (Mi-17), Mi-8MTV-1, (Mi- 17- IV), Mi-8AMT (Mi-171), and Robinson R44 from the USA.
According to the company’s Sales Director, Mindaugas Trapenskis, the increased popularity of Russian-built helicopters has raised the demand for appropriate MRO support. Since 2004, he says, the Russian helicopter industry has grown 3.5 times, with the orderbook of Russian Helicopters at the beginning of 2014 having amounted to 808 machines at a total cost of $12 billion.