Goodwood Aerodrome 15th February 2013. On Saturday 15th February we started our Helicopter Pleasure Flying season off with a full day’s schedule. Some 130 passengers flew with us on the day undertaking a range of different scenic tour flight options ranging from 10 minutes to 30 minutes in duration. One of our first passengers was [...]

My name is Jill Dudley and I am the latest recruit at Elite Helicopters. I joined on 1st December 2012 as the Saturday receptionist and love my new job. I had a fairly quiet start as the weather conditions were dreadful and on a couple of Saturdays the airfield was closed due to water logging. [...]

Finding something memorable to mark a special occasion or to say “Thank You” to someone special in your life is often a challenge. A gift which is a little out of the ordinary will go a long way to show your appreciation – and will be much appreciated! Our new online shop now has a [...]

Our new helicopter experience website has been launched this week, replacing the shop which was currently part of this website. With such success over the last year, we felt it was right to make an independent website that could offer so much more. In addition to specific helicopter experiences, we also offer monetary gift vouchers [...]

We are delighted to have completed Stage 7 of our Office Renovation Programme. Those of you who can remember Hangar 3 in the early days, when we first arrived at Goodwood, will appreciate what a mammoth task this has been. The furniture for our Meeting / Conference Room arrived yesterday and the room and its [...]

Our final major sporting event of the 2012 season has been and gone – which presented us with a “Hat Trick” as the three major events saw a significant increase in passenger numbers over those of the last 8 years! The British Grand Prix and the Festival of Speed had already given us a vast [...]

We were delighted to host a visit from the Bell 407GX which came to Goodwood specifically to offer demonstration flights to our pilots, clients and guests. The aircraft certainly looks like a Bell, and you would be forgiven for thinking that it is a new Long Ranger. But it is so much more! The aircraft [...]

For the first year we sent our Long Ranger, a pilot and a team of dedicated ground crew over to the Isle of Man for two weeks in May to provide sightseeing tours around Douglas and the Island for the annual T.T. Races. With many passengers wanting to get a unique view of the famous [...]

Despite the appalling weather conditions so far this Summer, the past 6 weeks have seen most of the major sporting events and air shows taking place, events that Elite Helicopters are always very active at. This year we have experienced some of the busiest events we have seen for several years, this really kicked off [...]

Our Operations Manager, Aileen McGovern, has been hard at work training to achieve something unique – the first all-woman crew to row across the English Channel in a gig. Three boats from the local Langstone Cutters rowing club battled against poor weather and mountainous seas whilst dodging cross-Channel ferries and container ships. Aileen’s crew made [...]