Drying Services

You might not think of it, but helicopters can be a great help if you need something dried out.  Got a big baseball game but the field is too wet?  Not a problem.  If the conditions are suitable, we can hover over the field and before you know it, you can be playing ball.

If you are a contractor that needs to pour concrete or lay asphalt but the ground it just too wet, we can help.  Under ideal conditions, our helicopters hovering over a site can speed up the drying process several-fold. 

Need to stripe a parking lot?  We can often have it ready for paint in short order.  If you have a deadline, you can probably use our services.

For details on the drying process and how our helicopters speed up the operation, ask for our Drying Services brochure.

Frost Prevention

In the spring after flowering crops have bloomed, a late frost can decimate fragile fruit.  For those whose livelihoods depend on good and plentiful fruit, such an occurrence can be catastrophic.  To prevent this from happening, farmers have tried many things over the years, such as building huge bonfires or setting out smudge pots.  These efforts met with varied and usually limited success.  These actions were at best unpredictable and uncontrollable, and at worst totally ineffectual.  Then, a progressive minded fruit grower thought of using helicopters.  Now they can raise the temperature a few degrees, stir up the air and keep the frost from forming, and it can be carefully controlled—all at a relatively low expenditure of scarce financial resources.  On windless evenings when the temperature is forecast to be in the upper 20’s, we can hover over your tomato fields or peach orchards and may be able to help you save the crop.

Construction Support

Aerial Patrol has been providing support to construction projects for over twenty years.  If you need an overview of the project, or need to move people or equipment from one location quickly, we can help.  Some contractors wouldn’t even begin a big project without having a helicopter available.   

If you build highways, bridges, pipelines, powerlines, drill for gas, work along rivers or other remote locations, you probably could use a helicopter in your business.

 Ferrying Service

If you recently purchased a helicopter and need to get it home, or sold one and need it delivered, we can handle that for you.  We have experience in ferrying aircraft in almost every state and Canada.  If you need a flight instructor to ride along with you for insurance purposes, we can probably help you out.  We have several flight instructors on staff with experience instructing in the following:

·         Hughes 269 series

·         Hughes 500 series

·         Enstrom

·         Schweizer

·         Bell 205 “Hueys”

·         Bell 206 series

·         Bell 47

·         Hiller 12

·         Robinson R-44