Helicopters Inc

Flight Services


Pipeline and Powerline Survey

Helicopters Inc. fulfills serveral long-term pipeline survey contracts, as well as doing on-call inspection work. Regular inspections of some types of underground pipelines are required by the Department of Transportation. This work requires us to fly over buried pipelines at regular intervals, looking for potential problems such as brown grass, which might indicate a leak, construction crews excavating over the pipeline, or stream-bed erosion.
Helicopters Inc has considerable experience in pipeline/powerline inspection. If you are in the pipeline or powerline business, please call us for a proposal.


Aerial Photography and Video
Helicopters Inc also provides services to a variety of photographers and videographers as well as capturing the images with our gyro stabilized cameras. Please contact us directly for rates and references.

Helicopter Pilot Instruction
We provide helicopter flight instruction, whether to fixed-wing pilots with no rotary-wing experience, ex-military pilots, or the occasional pilot-to-be. The Enstrom helicopter is a responsive and safe machine for student training. Please contact us directly for block-time pricing, references, and other information.

FAA Flight Standards Services

Digital Imaging
With a specially-modified Kodak DCS-420 high-resolution digital camera connected to a GPS receiver, we can photograph sites from the air, and then
  • Burn the images to a CD-ROM
  • Produce hi-resolution prints on paper
  • Post the images to the password-protected client area of our web site
Some examples of the usefullness of this service:
  • A businessman in Tokyo is considering buying a factory in Little Rock, Arkansas on short notice. He wants to see the plant and fast! By capturing the images digitally and posting them to this web site, we can oblige.
  • A national pipeline company needs to know of trouble spots which may develop gradually along a high-volume underground gas pipeline. We digitally image along the pipeline through six states and burn the resulting hi-res images, each encoded with its precise location, to CD-ROM (approximately 400 images/disk). If the images are required the same day as captured, we will post them to an ID and password-protected client area of this web site. Thus they can easily archive the images and consult them later.