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Fleet classification for Pawan Hans Limited for financial year 2022, by helicopter type

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Release date

February 2023

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Region

India

Survey time period

FY 2022

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*Four Dauphin SA365N Helicopters having vintage of over 33 years which were grounded since long due to obsolescence and have been approved as impaired assets by the board. One more Dauphin SA365N helicopter has been put under impairment.
**One Sikorsky S 76D helicopter met with accident on June 28, 2022 near Sagar Kiran rig at Mumbai Offshore.
India's financial year starts in April and ends in march. For example FY 2019 started in April 2018 and ended in March 2019.

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In financial year 2022, Pawan Hans Limited had ** helicopters in its fleet, with ** of them being Dauphin SA365N. Both Dauphin types were manufactured by Airbus Helicopters SAS. Pawan Hans also leased *** aircraft, Dhruv, from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. Pawan Hans was India's largest and one of Asia's biggest helicopter operators.

Pawan Hans Limited

Pawan Hans Limited was set-up in 1985 and began its operations in October 1986. As of March 2020, Pawan Hans Limited was a public listed company, with the government having a ** percent stake while ONGC had the rest. Pawan Hans utilized its helicopters for different off-shore operations, connecting inaccessible areas, air-ambulance service during nights for emergency evacuations, ferrying employees, and other vital services. It also uses copters for leasing services to different administrative governments and utility service providers, as well as pilgrimage services. Since financial year 2011, the average monthly fleet deployment was at least ** copters per month.

Competitors

Pawan Hans has had competition since the late ***. Global Vectra was one of them, with ** copters under its fleet and approximately *** thousand hours of flying time. Heritage Aviation Private Limited was another emerging player in this market. Apart from Pawan Hans, there were ** other non-scheduled operators in the country with varying fleet sizes.