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Vancouver's Okanagan Helicopters Ltd. had been founded in 1947 in the pioneering days of rotary wing flight.
CHC acquired two more firms in 1987, fuel distributor Aero Flight Holdings Ltd. and Offshore Helicopter Technologies Ltd., which was developing a flight simulator facility in St John's.
CHC acquired Ranger Helicopters Canada, a geology specialist, in April 1988 for CAD 9.7 million.
CHC won a contract for United Nations peacekeeping flights in Kuwait, Cambodia, and Thailand in 1991, reported the Financial Post.
In December 1994 CHC had promoted a new president and CEO from within, Rudy Palladina, while Dobbin remained chairman and the largest shareholder. (Dobbin, diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, moved to the United States for a few years to seek a lung transplant.)
1994: CHC acquires control of British International Helicopters.
Repair and overhaul contributed more than a third of revenues in 1997.
CHC was able to acquire HSG itself for CAD 206 million in 1999.
Dobbin's favorite part of entrepreneurship was building companies, noted a March 2000 profile in the National Post.
CHC's shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on October 11, 2004.
CHC moved its main offices cross country from St John's, Newfoundland, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2004.
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