page_title: Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore
section_title: 2001 – present
hierarchical_section_title: Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore / History / 2001 – present
caption_attribution_description: English: Bond main hangar Aberdeen Airport is said to be the world's busiest heliport, with about 100 flights per day serving North Sea oil installations. Here we see the main hangar of Bond Offshore Helicopters.
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.
context_section_description: In 2001 Bond HQ moved from Aberdeen, Scotland to custom-built facilities at Gloucestershire Airport, however, its main operational base remained in Aberdeen.
  In 2004 Bond Aviation Group re-entered the offshore oil & gas support market, forming 'Bond Offshore Helicopters', and established an operating base, including Hangarage and passenger terminal facilities, on the east side of Aberdeen airport.
  Bond Air Services started the UK's first wind farm support contract using a winch-equipped EC135T2i from a new base at Lowestoft in 2010.
  In 2011 Bond Air Services were acquired by World Helicopter Group, a holding company for investment firms Grupo Inaer, Investindustrial and KKR & Co (formerly Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co) making their combining fleet to 360.
  On 12 February 2013 Avincis Group took delivery of two Sikorsky S-92s out of the sixteen which had been ordered by company. The helicopters were delivered to Bond Offshore Helicopters' Aberdeen Airport base.
  In March 2014 Bond Offshore took delivery of a new S-92. The aircraft arrived at Prestwick Airport inside an Antonov transporter aircraft.
  On 25 April 2016 Bond was renamed Babcock. The full name of the company became Babcock Mission Critical Services Offshore Limited.
caption: Bond's main hangar at Aberdeen Airport
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