YEAR END 2017 JAPAN CIVIL HELICOPTERS Sponsored by ASIA PACIFIC REGION CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2016 1 JAPAN Total Fleet : 647 apan is one of the largest and most mature civil Japan National Police (96), Japan Coast Guard (53), Japan Fire helicopter markets in the Asia Pacific region. The Department (37), and other government departments (40). In the J country’s metropolitan areas, vast and uninhibited private sector, Aero Asahi Corporation (73) is the largest operator, mountain terrain, along with its long coastline and over followed by Nakanihon Air Service (64). 6,000 islands, have made helicopter operations ideal across the nation, allowing for a natural success in its civil Multi-mission is the largest mission type category in the country, helicopter market. with 310 (48%) helicopters. With forest covering 64% of the country’s land mass, combined with a vast mountain terrain, forest As of year-end 2017, Japan’s civil helicopter fleet (turbine only) protection and firefighting have become paramount. As a result, stands at 647, a 0.2% net increase from 646 in 2016. Airbus approximately 37 helicopters from the prefectural fire departments remains the most popular OEM with 345 helicopters (53% market are dedicated to firefighting and forestry missions. Most of the share), a 0.3% decrease from 2016; Bell Helicopter follows, with fleet in Aero Asahi and Nakanihon Air Service also belong to the 131 (20% market share), a 1.6% increase from 2016; Leonardo multi-mission category, including various types of operations from comes third, with 102 (16% market share), no change from 2016. cargo lifting to photo shooting for the media industry. The average age of the entire turbine helicopter fleet is 14 years. EMS is the second largest mission category with 106 (16%), There were 14 new deliveries in 2017, including nine in the medium followed by Law Enforcement with 94 (15%). While multi- category, three single engines, and two light twins. Most of these mission helicopters have an average age of 17, EMS helicopters orders are from larger operators. Of the 14 new deliveries, 57% are younger with an average age of 13. With an average age of were from Airbus, 29% were from Bell, and 7% from Robinson 11, Law Enforcement helicopters are youngest among the three and Leonardo respectively. Unlike 2016, when most of the new mission types. The use of Law Enforcement civil helicopters in deliveries were for public services operators such as police and fire Japan started in the 1970s, when the Bell 206B was used for the departments, only one of the newly delivered turbine helicopters country’s police force. In recent years, the Japan National Police were used in that sector in 2017. On top of that, there were five Departments have replaced obsolete Law Enforcement helicopters pre-owned deliveries, ranging from a 1983 model to a 2009 model, from the 1970s and 1980s with brand new aircraft. Law with an average age of 20 years. Enforcement demand has been a strong drive of the helicopter fleet growth in Japan, however, this source of increase showed Operators in the public sector employ the largest fleets in signs of slowing down in 2017. Japan (35% of the total fleet size). These operators include the 2 CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 : JAPAN COUNTRY PROFILE : JAPAN 96+0+0 34+0+032+0+024+0+017+0+01+0+00+0+0 0+100+0 0+34+00+32+00+23+00+17+00+2+00+1+0 0+1+0 0+0+100 0+0+340+0+300+0+230+0+170+0+30+0+1 0+0+1 98+0+0 38+0+0 0+99+0 0+37+00+29+00+11+00+4+00+3+00+1+0 0+0+99 0+0+380+0+290+0+110+0+40+0+30+0+1 Net Fleet Growth by Mission by Net FleetGrowth OEM by Net FleetGrowth Net Fleet Growth by SizeCategory by Net FleetGrowth 299 343 Multi-Mission 309 Airbus 346 310 345 106 134 EMS 106 Bell 129 106 131 26+0+0 98 98+0+0 57+0+0 55+0+08+0+0 92 0+100+0 0+58+0 0+57+00+8+0 0+0+100 0+0+60 0+0+560+0+8 Law Enforcement 98 Leonardo 102 285 94 102 Medium 289 11+0+0 291 73 38 SAR 72 Sikorsky 39 167 72 39 Single 169 4+0+0 2+0+01+0+0 172 52 15 Corprate 53 MD 15 53 159 14 Light Twin 164 4 7 161 Private 5 Robinson 10 8 11 23 Heavy 24 0 3 23 Training 1 Kaman 3 2 3 1+0+0 1 1 Offshore 1 Enstrom 1 1 1 1+0+0 2017 2017 2016 2015 2017 2017 2016 2015 2017 2017 2016 2015 1 1 Charter Russian Helicopters 1 (634) (634) (634) (646) (646) (646) (647) (647) (647) 1 1 1 3 JAPAN : CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 COUNTRY PROFILE : JAPAN Additions and Deductions by Model New Deliveries +1 in total New Deliveries (+14) Robinson 1 (7%) Leonado 1 (7%) Pre-owned (+5) Deductions (-18) Bell 4 (29%) Airbus 8 (57%) +14 AS332L -1 AS355 -1 AS365 -2 2 57+29+7G BK117 -2 BO105 -3 -1 Airbus H120 1 Pre-owned Additions H125 -1 2 2 H130 -1 H135 1 Bell 1 (20%) Airbus 3 (60%) H145 -1 3 Bell 206 -1 -2 +2 Bell 412 2 1 Bell Leonardo 1 (20%) +5 Bell 429 2 AW109 -1 1 1 0 AW139 -1 Leonardo 60+20+G Deductions -1 MD 900 -1 MD MD 1 (5%) Airbus 12 (67%) 1 +1 R66 Leonardo 2 (11%) Robinson Bell 3 (17%) 67+-18 17+11+5+G 4 CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 : JAPAN COUNTRY PROFILE : JAPAN Fleet by Model 647 in Total 89+73+51+36+34+24+9+8+5+5+4+3+2+1+1 Airbus 345 (53%) H125 89 H135 73 AS365 51 BK117 36 H145 34 AS355 24 AS332L1 9 H225 8 H155 5 H130 5 H120 4 AS332L 3 SA315 2 AS332L2 1 BO105 1 54+38+12+7+6+6+5+2+1 Bell 131 (20%) Bell 412 54 Bell 206 38 Bell 430 12 Bell 204 7 Bell 429 6 Bell 427 6 Bell 407 5 Bell 214 2 Bell 205 1 Enstrom 1 (<1%) EN480 1 Kaman 3 (<1%) K-Max 3 51+47+2+1+1 Leonardo 102 (16%) AW139 51 AW109 47 AW169 2 AW101 1 AW119 1 11+3+1 MD 14 (2%) MD 900 10 MD 500 3 MD 600 1 11 Robinson 11 (2%) R66 11 Russian Helicopters 1 (<1%) KA-32 1 18+6+4+3+3+2+1 Sikorsky 39 (6%) S-76D 18 S-76C+ 6 S-76C++ 4 S-76B 3 S-76C 3 S-76A+ 2 S-333 1 +1 S-92 1 +1 S-76A 1 JAPAN : CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 5 COUNTRY PROFILE : JAPAN Fleet by Mission and OEM 310 106 94 72 53 100+34+30+23+17+3+1+1+18 2 1 1 Law Law SAR EMS Total Private Charter Training Offshore Corporate Enforcement Multi-Mission Airbus 181 68 36 27 25 6 1 1 345 Bell 77 22 17 8 6 1 131 Enstrom 1 1 Kaman 3 3 Leonardo 25 9 39 18 10 1 102 MD 6 5 3 14 Robinson 5 4 2 11 Russian Helicopters 1 1 Sikorsky 11 2 2 19 5 39 Total 310 106 94 72 53 8 2 1 1 647 Fleet by Operator 40 Operators shown represent 89% of the fleet 109 Operators in total 69 Operators operate 1 helicopter each 96+73+64+53+40+37+28+21+15+13+13+12+10+9+8+8+7+6+5+4 +4+4+4+4+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2 Japan National Police 96 Honda Airways 4 Aero Asahi 73 Ogawa Air 4 Nakanihon Air 64 Takahashi Helicopter 4 Japan Coast Guard 53 The Asahi Shimbun 4 Gov’t of Japan 40 Auto Panther 3 Japan Fire Dept 37 Chunichi Shimbun 3 Toho Air 28 Daiwa Land Residence 3 Nishi Nippon 21 Janet Aviation 3 All Nippon Helicopter 15 Mainichi Shimbun 3 Akagi Helicopter 13 Noevir Aviation 3 Hirata Gakuen 13 SGC Saga Aviation 3 Shin-Nihon Helicopter 12 Amakusa Airlines 2 Kagoshima Int’l Aviation 10 Eurotec Japan 2 Shikoku Air 9 Japan Digital Laboratory 2 Heli Service 8 Kawasaki Heavy Industries 2 Tohoku Air Service 8 Kirata Gakuen 2 Central Helicopter Service 7 Kyoto Authorities 2 Shizuoka Air 6 SECOM 2 Hokkaido Aviation 5 Shin Nihon Helicopter 2 Alpha Aviation 4 TMC Int’l 2 6 CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 : JAPAN COUNTRY PROFILE : JAPAN Top Operator’s Fleet by Model 2015 (452) 2016 (437) 100 98 96 2017 (440) 78 75 73 64 62 62 55 53 52 46 42 40 37 31 29 28 28 27 24 21 20 18 15 15 14 13 100+0+00+98+00+0+96 78+0+0 0+75+00+0+73 0+62+00+0+64 62+0+0 55+0+0 0+53+00+0+53 42+0+00+46+00+0+40 31+0+0 0+28+00+0+37 27+0+0 18+0+00+29+00+0+28 15+0+00+20+00+0+21 24+0+00+14+00+0+15 12 0+12+0 0+0+13 Total Police Guard Toho Air Toho All Nippon Helicopter Aero Asahi Aero Japan Coast Nishi Nippon Gov't of Japan Gov't Nakanihon Air Nakanihon Japan National Japan Fire Dept Akagi Helicopter Akagi Airbus H125 14 18 10 6 5 53 AS365 8 2 1 3 14 5 1 6 40 H135 9 19 1 3 6 38 H145 3 6 4 3 2 5 23 BK117 11 1 6 3 2 23 AS355 10 5 5 20 H225 5 3 8 AS332L1 1 2 3 1 7 H155 4 1 5 AS332L 2 1 3 SA315 2 2 AS332L2 1 1 Bell Bell 412 10 3 1 5 18 5 2 44 Bell 206 6 9 3 3 21 Bell 430 6 6 12 +4+4+4+4+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2 Bell 429 1 3 2 6 Bell 204 2 2 2 6 Bell 427 3 3 Bell 214 1 1 Kaman K-Max 3 3 Leonardo AW139 15 18 5 8 3 49 AW109 26 26 AW101 1 1 MD MD 900 8 8 MD 500 3 3 Russian Helicopters KA-32 1 1 Sikorsky S-76D 2 16 18 S-76C+ 4 1 1 6 S-76C 2 1 3 S-76B 1 1 2 S-76C++ 1 1 2 S-92 1 1 S-76A 1 1 Total 96 73 64 53 40 37 28 21 15 13 440 JAPAN : CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 7 COUNTRY PROFILE : SOUTH KOREA YEAR END 2017 SOUTH KOREA CIVIL HELICOPTERS Sponsored by SOUTH KOREA : CIVIL HELICOPTER FLEET REPORT – YEAR END 2017 1 SOUTH KOREA Total Fleet : 227 outh Korea is the sixth largest helicopter market There are 24 operators, with two or more helicopters on their in Asia Pacific, totaling 227 helicopters at yearend fleet.