The company Heli Travel Munich GmbH (HTM) has been operating a new EC135 P2i from the Emden commercial airfield since early April 2009. The aircraft flies to the Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm, 50 km to the north of Borkum Island.
The wind farm operator, Deutsche Offshore Testfeld und Infrastruktur GmbH&Co KG, is planning to build twelve 5 MW wind turbines, and is playing a pioneering role by being the first company to work in this sector.
People and equipment are currently being transported to the wind farm’s transformer station, and construction of the first wind turbine should be completed by mid-June. From this date, the company HTM will perform lifting operations at sea over the generator building, which is almost 100 meters high.
“HTM chose the EC135 because of its superior single-engine performance and its multipurpose capability. We already operate eight Eurocopter helicopters,” explains Bernd Brucherseifer, operations manager at HTM.