Who owns Specialist Aviation Services?

Since 2000, the SAS group has been owned by Elite Helicopters Holding NV (previously RDM Aerospace BV), a Dutch industrial concern that also owns a significant interest in MD Helicopters. MDHI manufactures the MD902 Explorer, the mainstay of the SAS fleet.

As well as acting as parent company to Police Aviation Services (PAS), and Medical Aviation Services (MAS), SAS Ltd acts as the administrative authority for the group's external maintenance and design contracts. On occasion, a non-PAS or MAS customer - perhaps one from overseas - may need its own aircraft modified with systems familiar to PAS engineers. In this case, the work would be done under the auspices of SAS: however the same teams would carry out the actual work.

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