Since 2014, HeliDax has been diversifying its activities. HeliDax is regularly approached by third party customers to customise their H120s on the same model as that made available to the French Armed Forces. It has also customised equipment for customers in Norway, Switzerland and Italy.
In 2017, the company converted helicopters in its workshops for a private operator based in Malaysia.
Installation of autopilots, digital displays, flight data recorders, radio set modifications: HeliDax is happy to export its expertise.
HeliDax also operates in Malaysia, at the recently founded flight training centre, where it also prepares the aircraft for their training missions.
Another example: HeliDax is also involved in engine maintenance for Safran Helicopter Engines (formerly Turbomeca), in Bordes (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
HeliDax assesses these helicopters on site, advises the customers on how to proceed then customises the aircraft to allow its customers to launch their own flight training program.
"They are not competitors because we only handle maintenance," says Jean-Jacques Chesneau. Part of the income generated by this activity is transferred to the French State.
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Made from the wreckage of a helicopter, the HeliDax demonstrator is expected to be one of the attractions of the upcoming Paris Air Show, the International Aeronautics and Space Exhibition (June 17-23, 2019 in Paris). Every year, HeliDax presented a static helicopter at Le Bourget in which many curious people would settle in turns. The frustrated visitors expected to fly!
With this innovation, HeliDax hopes to meet this request and why not, to encourage vocations. 50 trainees from the Jean-Taris technical high school in Peyrehorade (40) and from the InTech Engineering schools in Agen (47) and Dax (40) have been working for months to shape this demonstrator in coordination with students from the IMA School (Aeronautical Engineering & Maintenance) located in Bordeaux.
Designed to promote the aviation trades, it will offer users a total immersion between real and virtual. The company has been working for 1.5 years on this project (outside scheduled hours) as a non-profit activity.
To provide these “upmarket” services, HeliDax can rely on human and material resources to meet the requirements of its customers:
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