PDG Aviation Services

PDG Aviation Services is the trading name of PLM Dollar Group Limited, a Scottish-registered company (number SC157532). Its head office and main operating base are at the heliport on the Dalcross Industrial Estate near Inverness, and it also runs operating bases at Cumbernauld Airport, close to Glasgow, and at Wolverhampton Airport, with a satellite office in Ireland.

Most of the company's work is aerial work rather than passenger travel. It describes its main activities as survey and inspection, aerial lifting, filming and charter, and lists infrastructure clients in sectors such as utilities, rail, telecommunications and renewables. A related business, Team UAV, operates drones from Bromsgrove and Manchester Barton.

Charter is one of the services the company lists alongside its survey and filming work. For passengers, that means helicopter flights operated by the company itself rather than arranged through a broker. Its published leadership team includes a chief pilot who also serves as director of flight operations, along with a separate safety and operations director.

The company's fleet has long centred on Airbus (formerly Eurocopter) AS350 and AS355 Ecureuil helicopters. A 2013 manufacturer release reported that its Squirrel fleet had passed 200,000 flight hours across bases in the UK and Ireland.

Flyers looking at PDG should treat it mainly as a helicopter operator for business, filming and specialist flights in Scotland, northern England and the Midlands, and should ask directly about current aircraft availability and charter terms.