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Bristow Statistics.

Most of the statistics were extracted from Sandie Richardson's PC so my thanks to
her as to try and collect this amount of data together would have been a nightmare!

The following is a worldwide summary of all rotary wing flying from 1953 to the end
of December 2000.

1953-1959 (estimated) All types.

Revenue hours: 80,085
Non Revenue: 2,275
Total: 82,360
Sectors: 119,000

Passengers: 305,000
Freight/Baggage: 8,445,000


Add to the following which is from 1960 onwards..............

Current Fleet Flying hours.
Revenue plus
non-revenue
Sectors Passengers
S61 562,144 ...637,695 ..6,164,345
S76 155,059 ...353,260 ..1,693,537
AS332L 620,199 ...604,671 ..7,024,075
Bell 212 844,340 3,488,400 17,410,030
SA330J ..92,641 ...264,949 .....853,360
Bell 214ST ..27,696 .....37,404 .....374,759
Bell 206 282,895 ...739,928 ..1,282,245
AS 355F ..12,580 .....75,353 .....116,996
R22 ..29,817 n/a training n/a training
Total current fleet 2,709,731 6,320,660 35,224,362
Total other types -
Wessex etc etc.
.909,307 1,722,467 ..6,204,153
Cumulative Total 3,619,038 8,043,127 41,428,500

The contribution to the above figures by UK offshore flying since 1965 is:
(
excludes HM Coastguard SAR)

Current fleet Flying hours.
Revenue plus
non revenue.
Sectors Passengers
S61 438,387 426,641 4,636,772
S76 114,623 268,373 1,418,141
AS332L 550,873 521,021 6,332,796
Bell 212 164,382 841,328 4,228,062
Bell 214ST ..25,996 ..35,915 ...364,231
Total current fleet 1,294,261 2,093,278 16,970,002
Total other types -
Wessex etc etc.
139,745 180,706 1,314,574
Total UK offshore flying '65 -Dec 2000
1,434,006 2,273,984 18,284,576

UK Search and Rescue ( HM Coastguard ) flying since 1971 to Dec 2000.

Current fleet Flying hours.
Revenue plus non-rev.
Sectors
S61 40,086 44,154
Total other types 1,552 2,106
Total UK SAR 41,638 42,260

Another stat - It is interesting to note that the Bristow Helicopter Group of
Companies, in flying 620,199 flying hours to December 31st 2000, has flown
approximately 45% of all Super Puma civilian hours flown ( nearly 30% of
all Super Puma/Cougar hours flown).