page_title: Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore
section_title: Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore / Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: Passengers boarding a Babcock H175 at Aberdeen airport
context_page_description: Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore Limited is a British helicopter operator, specialising in providing offshore helicopter transportation services to North Sea and Irish Sea oil and gas platforms.
  Babcock operates a mixed fleet of helicopters on behalf of more than 10 major customers. Annually they transport around 200,000 men and women to and from offshore oil and gas platforms from bases at Aberdeen, Norwich, Blackpool and Sumburgh airports. Babcock also operates two specialist Search and Rescue aircraft to support the Oil and Gas industry. These two AW139 helicopters are based at Aberdeen airport and equipped with specialist search and rescue equipment and provide 24-hour SAR coverage for the central North Sea.
  Bond Offshore Helicopters became a Babcock International Group company when Babcock acquired the Avincis group in May 2014.
caption: Passengers boarding a Babcock H175 in Aberdeen
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