Private company

Cougar Helicopters

Logo: http://www.cougar.ca/, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia³

Canadian helicopter operator

Cougar Helicopters (a VIH Aviation Group Company) is a St. John's based commercial helicopter company servicing offshore oil and gas fields off the coast of Newfoundland. Cougar has permanent facilities in St. John's and Halifax. The company is affiliated with Bristow Helicopters which has a financial stake in Cougar.² Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1984Founded¹

HeadquartersSt. John's¹
Founded inHalifax¹
Websitewww.cougar.ca

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Corporate structure

Cougar Helicopters is part of a group headed by Bristow Helicopters. 3 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Bristow Helicopters Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Cougar Helicopters St. John's
- Bristow Norway Subsidiary · Sola, Norway

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

Services

Cougar Helicopters currently services platforms and ships located off Newfoundland in the:

Hibernia oil field

Terra Nova oil field

White Rose oil field

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Hebron-Ben Nevis oil field

Fleet

As of May 2024, Cougar Helicopters operates a fleet of eight Sikorsky S-92A and one Bell 412EP.

From Wikipedia’s article on Cougar Helicopters, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Controversies and legal

Incidents and accidents

On 12 March 2009, Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, a Cougar Sikorsky S-92A helicopter carrying 18 passengers and crew en route to an oil platform off the coast of Newfoundland, ditched and sank in 178 metres of water. 17 of the 18 people on board died in the crash.