Wiking Helikopter Service.... the end

[Jack]

Op 15 december 2022, komt er door financiële problemen een eind aan de activiteit van Wiking Helicopter Service.
In juni 2022 bestond de vloot van Wiking uit 5 H145s en 5 AW139s met nog twee AW139s via de lease maatschappij in bestelling.
Wiking was sinds 1975 actief vanaf de eigen locatie in Sande aan de rand van vliegveld Wilhelmshaven-Mariensiel met in eerste instantie de Bell 206 JetRanger en Sikorsky S-61N


On 15 December 2022, Wiking Helicopter Service will end it’s activities due to financial problems.
German offshore transport specialist Wiking Helikopter Service has entered administration on the back of rising fuel costs, loss-making contracts and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sande-based Wiking was placed into administration on 15 June.
Founded in 1975, Wiking operated in the North Sea region – including a UK subsidiary, Wiking Helicopters Ltd – specialising in the offshore transport of maintenance personnel to windfarms and pilots to ships.

Today, Wiking flies a fleet of five Airbus Helicopters H145s and five Leonardo Helicopters AW139s.

Operations were carried out from four bases: Emden, Husum and Sande in Germany, plus Wick in Northern Scotland.

https://avia-dejavu.net/photo%20D-HHOA.htm

[Stratofreighter]

https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopter ... 93.article

Emden-based Northern Helicopter has completed the acquisition of parts
of fellow German operator Wiking Helikopter Service, which fell into administration last year.

Northern Helicopter in October emerged as a buyer for Wiking’s harbour pilot transfer operation,
plus its maintenance and training units, subject to certain conditions.

In an update, administrator Pluta Rechtsanwalts says those conditions have now been met, and the businesses transferred, along with 44 employees and two rotorcraft – a pair of Airbus Helicopters H145s.

“We are pleased that the takeover could be completed as planned. After the purchase contract was signed with [Northern Helicopter] in September 2022, all conditions have been met,” says Pluta’s Dr Christian Kaufman.

“I would like to thank everyone involved and especially the motivated employees who made this successful solution possible.”

Wiking filed for bankruptcy in June 2022, with Kaufman appointed initially as interim administrator, a position that was then confirmed in September.

While he managed to secure a buyer for the pilot transfer operation, Wiking’s wind farm support business was closed at the end of the year following the completion of a contract.

Wiking blamed rising fuel costs, loss-making contracts and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic for its financial problems.

https://www.pilootenvliegtuig.nl/2023/0 ... 9-bestand/

12 januari 2023

De Duitse off shore helikopteroperator Wiking Helikopter Service wordt overgenomen
door Northern Helicopter GmbH uit het Duitse Emden.
Voor 44 Wiking medewerkers betekent dit het behoud van hun baan.

Wiking vroeg in juni 2022 surseance van betaling aan.

[Jack]

NHC heeft bij de definitieve afhandeling van het
faillissement slechts een deel van de faciliteiten, contracten en vloot van Wiking overgenomen. oa HTM heeft een H145 overgenomen en de AB139 D-HHOA is op 13 december naar een nieuwe eigenaar (in Italië?) vertrokken