Westwind Helicopters, Inc.
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator IAVA, overseen by the FAA office coded SW09. 19 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly BHT-407-407. Based in Santa Fe, Texas, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: westwindhelicopters.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Westwind Helicopters, Inc. from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Westwind Helicopters provides helicopter charter and utility services from bases in Santa Fe, Abbeville, and Houma across the US Gulf Coast. The company operates Bell and Sikorsky helicopters for oil and gas operations, lightering services, power line and pipeline patrols, government agency support, and executive charter flights.
- Calls itself
- Westwind Helicopters, Inc
- What it is
- Helicopter operator
- Bases
- Santa Fe, TX; Abbeville, LA; Houma, LA
- Aircraft it names
- Bell 206 L4, Bell 407, Sikorsky S-76A, Sikorsky S-76C++
- Services
- charter, oil and gas operations, lightering services, power line patrols, pipeline patrols, government agency support, pilot training, maintenance
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 135
- Address
- 8426 FM 2004, Santa Fe, TX, 77510
- Telephone
- 409-925-7300
- Elsewhere
Written by the site from the pages of westwindhelicopters.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 Out of date or wrong?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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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, 18 not heard lately, 3 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 407 8 on the certificate
- Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76 3 on the certificate
- Bell 206 JetRanger and LongRanger 2 on the certificate
- Sikorsky S-76 1 on the certificate
- Bell 11 on the certificate
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 4 on the certificate
- Keystone Helicopter Corp 3 on the certificate
- Santa Fe, TX · where it registers its own aircraft
- Texas 29,979 aircraft registered
- Westwind Helicopters INC 10 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 19 aircraft listed · designator IAVA
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/westwind-helicopters-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 19 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
BHT-407-407 12
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N114WH | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 2001 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 2:10 pm, in the air then |
| N1170 | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Gm Leasing CO LLC Broussard, LA | 2001 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 3:32 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, in the air then |
| N125WH | Bell 407 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 2000 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 10:37 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, in the air then |
| N1416 | Bell 407 | Gm Leasing Company LLC Broussard, LA | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Sunday at 2:24 pm, last near Acadiana Regional, in the air then | |
| N171WH | Bell 407 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 1997 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 7:58 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, in the air then |
| N20WH | Bell 407 | Gulf Helicopters LLC Santa Fe, TX | 1999 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 5 November 2026, in the air then |
| N35L | Bell 407 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 2000 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 10:24 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, in the air then |
| N377RS | Bell 407 | Gm Leasing CO LLC Broussard, LA | 2003 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N59WH | Bell 407 | Gm Leasing Company LLC Broussard, LA | 1998 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 3:51 pm, in the air then |
| N73SF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 2008 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Monday at 10:32 pm, last near Midland Airpark, in the air then |
| N82MM | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 1996 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Wednesday at 9:26 pm, in the air then |
| N91WH | Bell 407 | Gulf Helicopters LLC Santa Fe, TX | 1998 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 7:17 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, in the air then |
SK-76C+ 3
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N376WH | Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76C | Gm Leasing Company LLC Broussard, LA | 2009 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Wednesday at 2:49 pm, in the air then |
| N40WH | Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76C | Gm Leasing CO LLC Broussard, LA | 2009 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 3:40 pm, last near Houma-Terrebonne Airport, in the air then |
| N454WH | Keystone Helicopter Corp S-76C | Gm Leasing Company LLC Broussard, LA | 2010 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 8:34 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, in the air then |
BELL-206-L4 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N406MP | Bell 206-L4 | Gm Leasing CO LLC Broussard, LA | 1994 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 4 November 2026, in the air then |
BHT-206-B 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N2297E | Bell 206B | Westwind Helicopters INC | 1982 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 27 October 2026, last near New Braunfels Ntl Airport |
BHT-206-L4 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N131WM | Bell 206-L4 | Westwind Helicopters INC | 2005 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 13 October 2026, last near Bay City Regional, in the air then |
SK-76-A 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N763MH | Sikorsky S-76A | Gm Leasing CO LLC Broussard, LA | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 8:19 pm, last near Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial, 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.