Falcon Aviation Services was launched on 30 November 2006 under the initiative of His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with an initial fleet investment of more than US$69 million and eight helicopters. Its first job was unglamorous but essential - flying crews and cargo out to offshore oil-and-gas platforms in the Gulf.
Two decades later, the company has become one of the Middle East's most diversified aviation businesses. From its base at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, and a second operating hub at Dubai's Al Maktoum International Airport, Falcon runs a stack of services most operators would spread across several separate firms: helicopter and business-jet charter, aircraft management, maintenance-repair-overhaul (MRO) engineering, continuing airworthiness management (CAMO), fixed base operator (FBO) terminals, heliport management and inspection, air ambulance work, and luxury helicopter sightseeing tours.
The through-line is asset flexibility. The same rotary-wing fleet that supports the energy sector at dawn can carry tourists over Palm Jumeirah at sunset. That breadth is deliberate. In a regional market where demand swings with oil prices, tourism seasons and government contracts, running many complementary services under one Air Operator Certificate is how Falcon smooths the cycles - and keeps its aircraft, engineers and crews busy.
Falcon operates under two flags. It holds Air Operator Certificates from both the UAE and San Marino, a regulatory reach that widens where and how it can fly, manage and maintain aircraft for owners across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
