28-Feb-24 - Bristow orders 10 (+10 options) new Leonardo AW189 helicopters to be delivered between 2025 and 2028 for offshore oil and gas operations and by coast guard search and rescue (SAR) contracts in the UK, the Netherlands, and beginning in 2025 in Ireland #aw189
07-Feb-24 - Bristow has been granted an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), paving the way to begin the transition of the Irish Coast Guard search and rescue (SAR) service to the Leonardo AW189 helicopter #Ireland
23-Aug-23 - Bristow has signed a 10-year contract (with 13 additional options) to provide helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft for search and rescue (SAR) services to the Irish Coast Guard. Six Leonardo AW189 helicopters will operate 24/7 from Sligo, Shannon, Waterford, and Dublin Weston, starting in Q4 2024 and becoming fully operational by July 2025 #Ireland
31-May-23 - Bristow Ireland Ltd awarded 10-year €670M Irish Coast Guard (IRCG) contract to provide day and night search and rescue (SAR) helicopter operations from Sligo, Shannon, Waterford and Dublin and for the first time also a fixed wing aircraft element #coastguard
19-Oct-18 - CHC opened its new search and rescue (SAR) base at Dublin Airport, Ireland. CHC operates S-92 helicopters on behalf the Irish Coast Guard since 2012 and S-61 before that #Dublin
03-Jan-18 - In a very difficult year for the Irish Coast Guard, the S-92 helicopter service operated by CHC conducted 750 missions saving 175 people and assisting other 316 during 2017
31-May-17 - CHC Ireland and Coastguard winchman Gary Robertson received the 2016 Billy Deacon SAR Memorial Trophy for actions performed with his S-92, Rescue 118, on April 9, 2016
13-Apr-17 - Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) Preliminary Report Accident of Irish Coast Guard S-92A EI-ICR determined it struck terrain that wasn’t in its enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) database
12-May-16 - CHC Irish Search-and-Rescue (SAR) operation, which provides services on behalf of the Irish Coastguard, has achieved 10,000 Sikorsky S-92 flight hours.
30-Dec-15 - Ireland Coast Guard reaches 1000 helicopter rescue missions in a single year; the first time since the Coast Guard’s helicopter service commenced in 1991.
