Want to have your own helicopter? These are costs that must be paid
Helicopters have become one of the means of transportation in modern times. Not surprisingly, helicopters are owned by various kinds of consumers, from corporations to individuals.
But do you know how much it costs someone to have a private helicopter, especially in Indonesia? Whitesky Aviation CEO Denon Prawiraatmadja said the average selling price of a Bell helicopter is around US$ 1.5 million.
Indonesian people who want to buy this helicopter can use the Helicopter Management service initiated by Whitesky Aviation.
"The average price of a Bell type helicopter is US$ 1.5 million. Yes, that figure is almost the same as the price of a Lamborghini brand car," said Denon when met at the Singapore Air Show in Singapore, Wednesday (7/2/2018).
Not only that, the costs for operating a helicopter are not small. Denon said, for a Bell 505 helicopter, for example, the operational costs per hour can reach US$ 1,500.
"The cost is around US$ 1,500 but that includes the pilot," he said.
Helicopters can actually be a complementary mode of transportation. In some countries such as America and Brazil, the number of helicopters is so large that traveling by this type of aircraft is nothing new.
Complementary Transportation
"This helicopter is a complementary mode of transportation. In America and Brazil, helicopters are not an exclusive mode of transportation because the number has reached 2,000 units. But in Indonesia there are only a few, so people rarely see helicopters," said Denon.
Previously, this helicopter management business line had been run by Whitesky Aviation since 2011. However, at that time this service was only intended for corporations.
Denon hopes that by implementing this business mode it can introduce helicopters more widely to Indonesian society.
"One of our goals with the business line that we have is to be able to introduce helicopters to the wider community, so that later there will be a desire from them to have a helicopter," he concluded.
