Erickson Air-Crane

Erickson Air-Crane was founded in 2007, with the intent to build and grow a global helicopter aerial service provider. Acquired the Oil and Gas expertise of Brazilian-based Air Amazonia in 2013 Del Smith founded Evergreen Aviation in 1960. Evergreen Helicopters was sold to Erickson Air-Crane in Mar2013 in a $250 million deal [Jack Erickson founded Erickson Aviation in 1971 as Erickson Air-Crane with a focus on logging that evolved to an eventually much bigger market of firefighting. Evergreen Helicopters (1958-2013) merged into Erickson Air-Crane, later Erickson Aviation]