Police Aviation News published the following article in December 2016:
In early December, The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, accepted two new medium-lift helicopters
into the Canadian Coast Guard fleet.
These are the first of seven-new medium-lift helicopters being constructed by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Ltd. as part of the Coast Guard's Fleet Renewal Plan.
The seven Bell 412 helicopters will replace five Bell 212 helicopters currently in service. Under the Canadian Coast Guard Fleet Renewal Plan, the Government of Canada has already received and deployed fifteen Bell 429 light-lift helicopters and contracted for a helicopter simulator.
In an average year, Coast Guard's helicopter fleet flies 7,000 hours; performs over 8,400 flights; transports more than 22,700 persons; carries a payload of more than 11.2 million pounds; and completes more than 3,500 external load lifts, carrying cargo suspended by a cable from the helicopter.
Canada has selected the Airbus Group C-295W to provide a replacement search-and-rescue (SAR) aircraft with rival bids being discarded. Although not a Coast Guard resource it is closely related to their area of expertise but operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The SAR aircraft procurement allows the RCAF to replace its current fixed-wing fleet of six De Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo aircraft and thirteen Lockheed CC-130H Hercules aircraft that are currently used.
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