On February 1, 2025, Fair Lifts successfully executed a challenging drill rig heavy-lift and crew transport operation on Conn Island in the Potomac River, Maryland, enabling geotechnical firm 7NT to conduct critical subsurface investigations in an otherwise inaccessible location. The project highlighted our team’s ability to transform logistical obstacles into seamless aerial solutions. The Challenge: A Site With No Traditional Access Conn Island—a rugged, boulder-strewn landmass …
Fair Lifts Helicopter Services recently completed a complex HVAC helicopter lift for Four Winds Casino, located at 11111 Wilson Road, New Buffalo, MI. This project highlighted Fair Lifts’ expertise in precision aerial crane services, particularly in challenging rooftop equipment replacements. Utilizing a Sikorsky S-64E helicopter, Fair Lifts ensured the efficient, safe, and timely replacement of rooftop HVAC units, meeting critical …
Netflix’s home renovation reality series, “Instant Dream Home”, is renowned for its rapid transformations of deserving families’ homes. In the first season’s third episode, titled “A Room With A View”, Fair Lifts Helicopter Services played a critical role in the surprise renovation of a firefighter EMT’s bungalow, overcoming unique challenges and delivering excellence. Project Overview Based in Atlanta, GA, Fair …
As a premier provider of specialized helicopter services, Fair Lifts has once again demonstrated its expertise and commitment to excellence. Our team completed a highly complex and significant helicopter lift project in Boston, involving the installation of an Emergency Back Up Generator at the McCormack building, a crucial hub for Boston’s emergency services. The generator, with a total weight of …
Heavy lift crane trucks are widely used for their lifting capacity, strength, and massive build, but they’re also famous for some pretty impressive accidents that sometimes get caught on camera. One such incident happened recently in Atlanta, Georgia with expensive but fortunately non-fatal results. A massive construction crane that was mounted to a heavy transport truck simply lost its balance, …
The first-ever CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter built in Connecticut has now been formally introduced by its maker, Sikorsky to the U.S. Marine Corps. The large new chopper was presented to the public in a launch celebration conducted at the Lockheed Martin company’s Connecticut facility in Stratford last week. The new CH-53K King Stallion was developed by Sikorsky with the …
Helicopter medevac rescue and aerial firefighting helicopters are playing a crucial role as California faces some of the most destructive wildfires in its history. Prolonged droughts and extreme summer temperatures have only intensified the crisis, with two of the state’s largest wildfires in 2021 alone scorching over a million acres and threatening communities, including Lake Tahoe. Exhausted Fire Crews and …
A lucky photographer managed to spot something well outside the normal daily air traffic of birds and high-flying passenger planes this past Wednesday afternoon. It started with an unexpected but fantastically loud noise that prompted a closer look. Bird photographer Dustin Kvammen was trying to capture eagles on camera on October 6th when all the nearby birds suddenly departed. This happened …
Helicopter medevac rescue services are crucial for extracting injured individuals from remote locations where ground rescue is too slow or dangerous. This was the case on Saturday, September 23, when a hiker suffered a severe upper leg injury while trekking on Algonquin Peak, the second-highest mountain in New York State. Rescue Effort on Algonquin Peak Located within the vast Adirondack …
Droughts and high temperatures combined in 2021 to cook up what have been some of the most severely intense wildfire years in the state’s history. Despite this, some of California’s emergency services agencies are using technology to declare war on the flames with a fleet of high-tech helicopters. Just two of California’s 2021 fires have already torched away over 1 …