Coulson Aviation is a family owned business that was founded in 1984 and has enjoyed 34 years and a 150,000+ safe flight hours of operations worldwide between off shore oil and gas, firefighting and heavy lift with its fleet of Sikorsky S-61 26 passenger heavy lift helicopters. Coulson Aviation continues to evolve and grow under the leadership of Britton Coulson and is supported by his father Wayne and brother Foster. Coulson Aviation now operates a diverse fleet of Firefighting aircraft with its fixed wing air-tankers C-130 Hercules, Boeing 737 and its helicopter fleet of Sikorsky S-61 and now the CH-47 and UH-60.