Summit Helicopters, Inc.
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator BHHA, overseen by the FAA office coded EA21. 6 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly BHT-205-A1. Based in Salem, Virginia, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: summithelicopters.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Summit Helicopters, Inc. from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Summit Helicopters is a full-service helicopter operator and maintenance facility based in Salem, Virginia, offering aircraft maintenance, repair, overhaul, avionics installation, and aerial operations including firefighting, aerial application, charter, lift work, and aerial inspection services.
- What it is
- Helicopter operator
- Bases
- Salem, VA
- Aircraft it names
- Hiller UH-12ET Soloy, Bell 206B, Bell 206L, Bell 205A-1++, Bell 505, Bell 407, Bell 429, Bell 204, Bell 205, Bell 212, Bell 412, Bell UH-1, Bell Huey II, Bell OH-58, MD 500 Series
- Services
- maintenance, repair, overhaul, avionics installation, component overhaul, aircraft completion, firefighting, aerial application, charter, lift work, aerial inspection, parts sales
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 145, Part 135, Part 133, Part 137
- Founded
- 1980
- Address
- Salem, VA
- Telephone
- (540) 375-8909
- [email protected]
Written by the site from the pages of summithelicopters.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 Out of date or wrong?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 and aircraft the company owns. 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, 7 not heard lately, 9 not heard since the site began listening.
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.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 2 on the certificate
- Bell 205 1 on the certificate
- Cessna 208 Caravan 1 on the certificate
- Bell 5 on the certificate
- Textron Aviation Inc 1 on the certificate
- Salem, VA · where it registers its own aircraft
- Virginia 5,973 aircraft registered
- Summit Helicopters INC 15 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 6 aircraft listed · designator BHHA
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/summit-helicopters-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 6 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
BHT-205-A1 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N2773H | Bell 205A-1 | Summit Helicopters INC | 1979 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 12 October 2026, in the air then |
| N490SA | Textron Aviation Inc 208B | Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee North Salt Lake, UT | 2026 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 5:35 am, in the air then |
BHT-206-B3 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N206BE | Bell 206B | Summit Helicopters INC | 1978 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N59479 | Bell 206B | Summit Helicopters INC | 1973 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
BHT-206-L4 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N6344D | Bell 206-L4 | Summit Helicopters INC | 1993 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 9:44 pm, in the air then |
| N71HM | Bell 206-L4 | Summit Helicopters INC | 1994 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 29 October 2026, 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 11, 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.