Who flies in London
News, film and construction helicopters
Helicopters lift rooftop plant onto London buildings, film aerial sequences, gather news pictures and carry survey cameras.
Hero image: Photo: Mike Burdett, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Helicopters lift rooftop plant onto London buildings, film aerial sequences, gather news pictures and carry survey cameras.
The aircraft
Sky News contract helicopter G-UKTV, AS355F2, at Redhill, operated by A2B Heli Charters (registry-style source). Heavy-lift type used in London: not stated.
Where they fly from
Redhill Aerodrome (Sky News helicopter, Commons photo May 2025). A 2014 trade-press job lifted air-conditioning chiller units onto a Thames-side office roof (not verified officially).
How to tell them apart
Sky News titles on the contract helicopter per AirHistory entry; BBC helicopter call sign: not stated.
Sourced facts
- G-UKTV is an AS355F2 listed with Sky News titles at Redhill, operated by A2B Heli Charters. Source
Pictures
Official links
Sources and checks
Facts on this page come from these sources, last checked 2026-11-03. Where a source could not be reached or did not say, we left the fact out.
- airhistory.net airhistory.net
- redhillaerodrome.co.uk redhillaerodrome.co.uk