Sharon Desfor ASA — HeliValue$, Inc.

Mission Statement

HeliValue$, Inc. provides the most trusted helicopter appraisal services and products worldwide.

About Us

HeliValue$, Inc. is best known for its publications: The Official Helicopter Blue Book®, The Official Helicopter Specification Book, and HELP (Helicopter Equipment Lists & Prices), which have been sold around the world continuously since introduced in 1979.

Over 40 years of Official Helicopter Blue Book® issues have given us the historical records of helicopter transactions around the world. HeliValue$ has become the trusted advisors and industry-wide interpretive reporters for an international clientele of manufacturers and their vendors, helicopter operators of all sizes and locations, banks, leasing and insurance companies, as well as for law firms and government agencies. Our functions with these groups have taken us well beyond the "appraiser" role. In fact, for lenders and lessors in particular, our advice and consultations have helped them in several vital areas: providing the final "go/no-go" decisions for many of them, covering the questions of whether to participate with helicopter lending in general, as well as for specific deals significantly changing the lending/credit industry's opinion of helicopters' long-term values through our 25+-year history of accurate Blue Book resale records, our in-depth surveys, reports, inspections, and evaluations, our advice and counsel, as well as our in-person and telephone presentations for their senior management, asset, and credit personnel; enhancing our industry's position in this area with charter membership on the Leasing and Financing Committee of the industry's trade group, the Helicopter Association International (HAI), through guest speaker engagements before the National Aircraft Finance Association, through our "Market Trends" column appearing in HAI's ROTOR magazine, and through our articles as they have appeared in other industry publications.

HeliValue$' only business is helicopter values: the subscription sales of our publications, our desktop computer-assisted appraisals, and our on-site inspections, technical and operational analyses, residual value projections, and related reports concerning the values of more than 125 different commercial and military helicopter models and their component parts.

History

Formed in 1979 and published continuously since then, The Official Helicopter Blue Book®, and now its sister publications, Helicopter Equipment Lists & Prices (HELP) and The Official Helicopter Specification Book, have provided the industry with authoritative helicopter resale prices, performance, technical specifications, and maintenance costs. Each issue of The Official Helicopter Blue Book® contains extensive financial and technical details, covering more than 100 different models which resell around the world.

From 1979 to 1983 the appraisal and price reporting services were increased so as to provide more helicopter fleet appraisals for most of the world's major operators. In 1984, The Official Helicopter Blue Book® was revised and expanded to shows the component parts pricing and overhaul interval information.

In 1986, The Official Helicopter Blue Book® was purchased and the reporting services were again diversified to include evaluations of ex-military helicopters, values on parts, and projected residual values. In 1988, HeliValue$, Inc., was formed to provide all the inspection and appraisal services for The Official Helicopter Blue Book®.

In 1990, HeliValue$ bought the Blue Book, its related publications, and its remaining appraisal and inspection business, and began publishing HELP, a detailed component pricing book with standardized "Hourly Maintenance Costs" for each machine.

In 1994, The Official Helicopter Blue Book® was made available on CD-ROM for the first time. And in 2005, HeliValue$ unveiled its Official Helicopter Blue Book® online website, which has continued to evolve ever since.

The Official Helicopter Blue Book®

No one can match the Blue Book's expertise, impartial and factual statistics, and "hands-on" knowledge of the world's helicopter operations. Only The Official Helicopter Blue Book® and its related publications are relied upon around the world by the buyers and sellers, owners and operators, manufacturers and their vendors, lending and leasing institutions, as well as law firms and government officials seeking the most impartial and accurate helicopter information.