COMMERCIAL WORK

Southern Lakes Helicopters specialise in all types of commercial and industrial work. We have a heavy lift capable B3 Squirrel helicopter and can position a base accordingly with our crew and transportable fuel tankers. 

Our equipment is as follows:

• Scoop net
• Cargo pods
• First aid kids
• Concrete buckets
• Night vision goggles
• Night sun
• Breeze eastern winch
• Foam dispensing unit
• Endurance fuel systems
• Remote controlled gravel buckets
• Collapsable fire buckets for monsoon work
• Human sling equipment and stretcher
• Emersion suits and offshore equipment
• Long lines and strops with remote hook release
  

We have Satellite Phones and radio communication systems for
remote operation and a vast knowledge of the Fiordland area for hunting and
fishing, gravel and concrete work, frost fighting, avalanche bombing,
Department of Conservation Park work, search and rescue, predator eradication/culling,
media support, wire-stringing and support, fire-fighting, supply drops.       

                                

Southern Lakes Helicopters also supports the search for moose within Fiordland, with the Fiordland Moose Project run by the New Zealand Wildlife Research Trust. We assist with sponsorship of servicing the cameras, which are set up throughout the park.

CHARTERS

We can offer the charter to suit your every need and we do it with an extensive knowledge of the area in which you want to go and friendly informative pilots that will leave you feeling completely satisfied with your Helicopter experience.

Some varieties of Charter flights we can offer are....

FISHING CHARTERS

Southern Lakes Helicopters can offer you the chance to fish in some of the Worlds best fishing spots, which bring people from all over the world. We can get you to these spots in the comfort and ease of one of our top of the line aircraft. Working together our pilots and local fishing guides who both have expertise and knowledge of hot spots, we can help you to find "THE BIG ONE" and make it a day you will never forget.

Links to Fishing guides we recommend..

• Ron Peacock www.fiordlandlodge.co.nz
• Jeff Stuart
  

HELISKI CHARTERS

Join us as we take you on an exhilarating trip to snow that is untouched and otherwise inaccessible. You will depart in our comfortable and modern fleet of Squirrel helicopters equipped with cargo pods. Our Pilots are very experienced in this field and will show you some of the New Zealand mountain country we know.

Link to our recommended Heliski Company is:

www.southernlakesheliski.co.nz

Other types of charter work we do includes:

• Charter Boats
• Corporate Charters
• Scenic Charters

All enquiries welcome, please contact us!