Canadian Air-Crane Ltd.

Canadian Air-Crane Ltd. is a division of Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated.

Erickson Air-Crane grew out of the Erickson family business, which had generations of experience in the timber industry. With the purchase of two S-64 Skycranes in 1971, Erickson Lumber Company expanded into heavy-lift helicopter logging and became Erickson Air-Crane Ltd.

Since that time the company has conducted successful operations in the Pacific Northwestern of the United States, Canada, and in the tropical forests of Malaysia and Indonesia.

Canadian Air-Crane has operated on the British Columbia coast for more than 25 years. We are considered leaders in the helicopter industry for our innovations with standing stem harvesting. In this process, a tree or "stem" is plucked from the forest stand in its original state. Today, we are ready to launch a further innovation to this process. For individual "stems" that were considered too large to pluck in a single piece we, have developed the ability to cut off the top logs while leaving the remaining stem in tact. This new approach recovers the most value and highest grade from the stand.

In recent years we have expanded our operations into BC's Interior region with the introduction of “buncher” harvesting. This concept was developed at Powell River where we originally flew a TK1162 in seven pieces onto a conventionally inaccessible site. Again we were able to prove that our Erickson S-64 Aircrane has a place throughout the province – defying the claims that we were "too big." With the right payload under the Erickson S-64 Aircrane, we are the most efficient mover in the helicopter industry.