Helimax Aviation, LLC
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator H9XA, overseen by the FAA office coded GL23. 2 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly BELL-505. Based in Howell, Michigan, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: helimaxaviation.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Helimax Aviation, LLC from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Helimax Aviation is a heavy-lift aerial firefighting operator based in Sacramento, California. It operates a fleet of CH-47D Chinooks, Sikorsky S-61Ns, and Bell 505 helicopters for fire suppression, firefighter transport, and related aerial services throughout North America and globally, serving agencies including the U.S. Forest Service, CalFire, and international customers.
- Calls itself
- Helimax Aviation
- What it is
- Helicopter operator
- Bases
- Sacramento, CA
- Aircraft it names
- CH-47D, Sikorsky S-61N, Bell 505
- Services
- aerial firefighting, fire suppression, firefighter transport, external long line, logistical support, reconnaissance, NVG operations
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 133, Part 135, Part 137, Part 145, ARGUS Platinum, IS-BAO Stage 1
- Founded
- 1995
- Address
- Sacramento, CA
Written by the site from the pages of helimaxaviation.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 2 not heard lately.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Examiners and inspectors here designated by the FAA
1 sport aviation examiner gives this company as a place to work from, on the FAA's list:
- Marc Nelson Ballif private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, commercial pilot; helicopters · Helimax Aviation, INC · McClellen, CA · (801) 898-4590 · [email protected] sport aviation examiner
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Bell 505 1 on the certificate
- Pilatus PC-12 1 on the certificate
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 1 on the certificate
- Pilatus Flugzeugwerke Ag 1 on the certificate
- Howell, MI · where it registers its own aircraft
- Livingston County/Spencer J Hardy · OZW
- Aeronut Park · 13M
- Michigan 7,236 aircraft registered
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 2 aircraft listed · designator H9XA
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/helimax-aviation-llc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 2 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
BELL-505 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N337HG | Bell Textron Canada Ltd 505 | Happy Heli Holdings LLC Flint, MI | 2021 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 11:34 pm, in the air then |
PC-12-45 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N670WH | Pilatus Flugzeugwerke Ag PC-12/45 | Helimax Aviation LLC Howell, MI | 2005 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 10:57 pm, in the air then |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate, November 9, 2026; the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, November 12, 2026; the volunteer receiver network for what is in the air. An aircraft on a charter certificate is often owned by someone else and managed by the operator. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: fix the base, add your website, send your own pictures. Add the "Listed on eFlight" badge to your website.