Heli Austria

Heli Austria GmbH
legal form	GmbH
Seat	St. Johann im Pongau , Austria
management	Roy Knaus
Branch	Air carrier
Website	www.heli-austria.at

Heli Austria GmbH is an Austrian aviation company that mainly carries out various air transports with helicopters . The company is also known under the former name Knaus (Helicopter ...) after the founder and father of the current owner, Roy Knaus.

Fleet, corporate structure

The helicopter OE-XLP, an AS 332 L1 Super Puma, during an air conditioning installation flight at the KölnTurm in February 2018

The company operates two Bell 412 helicopters , one BO 105 , one Bell 204 , three AS 350 , one AS 355 and two AS 332 . Rescue helicopters are operated under the name Martin Flugrettung at bases in Hinterglemm , Hochgurgl , Karres , Matrei in Osttirol , Sankt Johann im Pongau and Scharnstein . A Bell 412 AB, five MD 902s (note: a crash on August 1, 2017) and two AS 355s are used for this . The company's headquarters are in St. Johann im Pongau.

Heli Austria GmbH (since April 2008) is linked to Heli Tirol GmbH (since June 2008) through its fleet and managing director . Ländle Heli was founded in 2009, and Martin Flugrettung is at least a brand name.

history

The company's first predecessor was Ritter trade & aviation Consulting GmbH . From 1984, Niki Lauda offered transports with a Hughes 530 F using the concession . In 1987 the company acquired its first own Hughes 500D, which was followed by two more by 1988. In 1997, the founder of the company, now known as Knaus Helicopter GmbH , Johann Knaus, died in an aircraft accident. His son Roy Knaus took over the company and became the sole owner. The company has been operating rescue helicopters since 1992 . In 2007, the company filed for bankruptcy , settled and continued under the name Heli Austria GmbH .

In September 2019 the company announced that it would also be involved in various areas in Greece, which does not have an air rescue organization, such as transfer flights between the islands or in the border area with four helicopters.

Martin 1 Martin 2 Martin 3 Martin 4 Martin 5 Martin 6 Martin 7 Martin 8 Martin 10

Map of Heli Austria locations in Austria

Landing sites

Location	state	ICAO code	location	Rescue helicopter paging name	operator
Bad Vöslau	Lower Austria	LOAV		Martin 5	Heli Austria
Flachau 1	Salzburg			Martin 10 2	Heli Austria
Hinterglemm	Salzburg	LOSH		Martin 6	Wolf Helicopter / Heli Austria
Hochgurgl	Tyrol	LOJH		Martin 8	Heli Tirol
Carts	Tyrol	LOJP		Martin 2	Heli Tirol
Matrei in East Tyrol	Tyrol	LOMM		Martin 4	Heli Tirol
Mayrhofen	Tyrol	LOJM		Martin 7	Heli Tirol
Scharnstein	Upper Austria	LOLC		Martin 3 3	Heli Austria
St. Johann im Pongau	Salzburg	LOSJ		Martin 1	Heli Austria

¹near Radstadt

²Only stationed there in winter. It is operated in cooperation with the RK Salzburg.

³ Stationed there since mid-October 2017 and hardly affected by fog due to its somewhat elevated location.

Incidents

The following incidents have occurred since the company was founded:

• On April 21, 1992, a helicopter crashed in Pfarrwerfen in Pongau.
• On September 29, 1995, a helicopter crashed on Krippenstein .
• On November 17, 1997, an Alouette III crashed due to a technical problem in Grossarltal, the company founder Johann Knaus died and his son was seriously injured.
• On November 19, 2002, a helicopter crashed while blasting an avalanche.
• On February 25, 2004, a company rescue helicopter crashed, the patient died, the emergency doctor and paramedics were seriously injured, and the pilot was slightly injured.
• On June 24, 2004, a Bell 205 helicopter crashed during transport work, and the pilot died.
• On September 5, 2005, a helicopter lost a concrete bucket weighing 750 kilograms over Sölden . This hit a gondola of the Schwarze-Schneid-Bahn. Nine passengers on the cable car were killed.
• On May 7, 2009, a helicopter lost around a ton of wood during an external load transport in the Ötztal . The load hit an inn, there were no injuries. As a result, the company was temporarily withdrawn from its license for landings in Tyrol.
• On July 23, 2010, a helicopter crashed near Dienten , the pilot was killed.
• On March 9, 2011, a rescue helicopter got out of control after taking off at Innsbruck University Hospital, but was able to land safely at Innsbruck Airport.
• On April 29, 2012, during a mountain rescue operation on the Großvenediger , a mountain rope, on which three people were hanging, was released by the helicopter crew during the flight. An alpine policeman died and two mountain rescuers were injured.
• At dusk on August 1, 2017, on the Grossglockner, a little below the Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte, at the start with a patient that had just been loaded, an MD902 that was floating just above the ground and near a steep rock slope fell over. This rotated around its vertical axis, touched the ground, tilted to the side and knocked off the rotor blades on the ground. None of the 3 occupants, but only the emergency doctor, outside and originally next to the loading door of the helicopter, was slightly injured.
• On February 12, 2018, the rescue helicopter Martin 6 was called to work in the Großglockner Resort Kals-Matrei ski area in Matrei in East Tyrol , when the helicopter of the type Airbus Helicopters H135 T3s touched down and was damaged. Neither the pilot, flight rescuer nor the person to be rescued were injured. The person to be rescued was rescued by another emergency doctor's helicopter.

Web links

Commons : Heli Austria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Heli Austria GmbH

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: Knaus: Millions for two "Super Pumas" | Tiroler Tageszeitung online - news from now! In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online . ( tt.com [accessed August 4, 2017]).
2. ↑ Fleet according to company website
3. ↑ Offer in the air rescue area according to company homepage
4. ↑ Company history according to company website
5. ^ Helicopter company Knaus rescued , ORF Salzburg, April 12, 2007
6. ↑ Heli Austria expands to Greece on ORF from September 2, 2019, accessed on September 2, 2019.
7. ^ Heli Austria: Time and again incidents in the Knaus company history ( Memento from July 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Kurier, April 29, 2012
8. ↑ Investigation report of the accident investigation center at the BMVIT on the accident of November 17, 1997 PDF, accessed on May 1, 2012
9. ↑ Investigation report of the accident investigation center at the BMVIT on the accident of February 23, 2004 PDF, 3.2 MB, accessed on April 30, 2012
10. ^ Investigation report of the accident investigation center at the BMVIT on the accident of June 24, 2004 PDF, 622 kB, accessed on April 30, 2012
11. ↑ Wood fell from helicopter onto house , ORF Salzburg, May 5, 2009
12. ↑ Knaus helicopters are allowed to land again , ORF Tirol, July 25, 2009
13. ^ Investigation report of the accident investigation center at the BMVIT on the accident of July 23, 2010 PDF, accessed on April 30, 2012
14. ^ Helicopter incident on the clinic platform , Der Standard, March 9, 2011
15. ↑ Crevasse rescue: Alpine policeman dead orf.at, April 28, 2012, update undated from April 29, 2012, accessed November 11, 2017. - About the accident of a mountaineer on April 28, 2012 at Großvenediger and the helicopter accident there on April 29, 2017. April 2012.
16. ^ Helicopter accident Großvenediger Salzburg Wiki, salzburg.com, accessed November 11, 2017.
17. ↑ Amateur video shows helicopter crash orf.at, August 2, 2017, accessed August 2, 2017.
18. ↑ https://www.bmvit.gv.at/verkehr/sub/luftfahrt/berichte/hubschrauber/2017/170801_zub_md900_902_85254.pdf
19. ↑ Rescue helicopter damaged on landing in East Tyrol tt.com, February 12, 2018, accessed March 9, 2020.