An Indigenous owned Canadian company flying out of Pitt Meadows since 2003, with our own Transport Canada approved maintenance shop in the same hangar.
About us
Sierra Helicopters is an Indigenous owned Canadian company based at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport. We have operated here since 2003, serving the Lower Mainland and the rest of British Columbia. Our president, Ronn Palley, has been flying since 1989, and our maintenance engineers have over forty years of combined experience.
Services
Sierra provides fire suppression, forestry support, utility and survey work, and charter flights throughout British Columbia. All of it is flown by our own pilots and maintained by our own engineers.
From YVR, Vancouver Harbour and Pitt Meadows
Throughout British Columbia
Aircraft availability changes with the season and with current contracts. Contact us and we will confirm what is available for your dates.
Maintenance
Sierra Helicopters is a Transport Canada Approved Maintenance Organization. We maintain our own fleet and provide third-party maintenance to operators throughout the region.
We handle heavy inspections in the hangar and field maintenance on site. We arrange repair and overhaul of structures, avionics and components through our partners.
Our Transport Canada AMO, approval 80-08, is rated for the AS350, AS355, Bell 206, EC120, Robinson piston and Sikorsky UH-60 series helicopters, and for piston aeroplanes up to 5,700 kg. These are maintenance approvals, not a list of our own fleet.
What people say
Great pilots, great machines
“I have been flying with a lot different companies within BC for the past 10 years, and Sierra Helicopters is one of the best. Working in forestry it is great to have pilots that are experienced with mountain flying, and have the skills to land in tight areas when needed.”
Cody S, Vancouver · TripAdvisor, 2013Superior and Professional Service
“Exactly what I needed and the service was incredible. Smooth flight, great value and they got us right where we needed to go. I will definitely be using them again! The hangar was easy to find and in a great location.”
Pti G · TripAdvisor, 2013Great Experience!
“Ronn and the Crew at Sierra Helicopters went above and beyond to make the tour I had organized with my clients a great experience! We really enjoyed the black and white helicopter!”
thailandtourist · TripAdvisor, 2015Flown for FortisBC and BC Hydro. Accredited provincially and federally.
Tell us about the job and we will provide a quote, usually the same day.
Photos
A selection of our own photography from work around British Columbia.
Safety
Sierra operates a Safety Management System as an integral part of everyday operations. It forms the basis of our BC Forestry SAFE certification, which means both the BC Forestry Safety Council and WorkSafeBC have assessed our health and safety programme.
We hold the WorkSafeBC Certificate of Recognition and maintain it through an annual audit. We are accredited provincially and federally, and we have operated without an accident since 2003.
SAFE Certified by the BC Forest Safety Council, certificate 4453.
Serving the Lower Mainland and the rest of British Columbia.
Contact us
Call the hangar and you will reach someone who knows the fleet’s availability. You can also email us. We quote most requests the same day.
Appendix — for Sierra, not for visitors
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}The logo is Sierra’s own file, embedded directly in the page — the black wordmark has been recoloured to off-white so it reads on the dark background, and the red is untouched. Every photograph is Sierra’s own, taken from the gallery and pages of sierrahelicopters.com and recompressed for this file. Captions use Sierra’s wording wherever the gallery gives one. Several originals date from 2013 to 2016, and the Pitt Meadows shot is only 1,024 px wide, so a current photo set will look sharper.
Photo rights. Three photos in Sierra’s gallery carry outside copyright in their file metadata: the 2017 award photo (BC Achievement Foundation), an aircraft close-up (© Bill Campbell 2010) and a waterfront shot filed as a fire photo (© Steve Pelton). The last two are not used here. The award photo is used and credited in its caption. Sierra should confirm that its permission to show these on the current site also covers a new one.
Certification marks. The four emblems on the certification bar are Sierra’s own design and carry no issuer name or symbol; the issuer and number sit beside each one in plain text. Transport Canada’s logo cannot be used: under the federal identity standard, Government of Canada symbols are protected by the Trademarks Act and may be shown by outside organizations only under a formal partnership or sponsorship agreement, which an operator certificate is not. The BC Forest Safety Council’s SAFE Certified seal appears in the Safety section exactly as Sierra already shows it on its homepage — resized, never recoloured or cropped. The laurel on the award badge is public domain (CC0, Wikimedia Commons).
Every number on the certification bar was checked against the issuer’s own register in October 2026. Transport Canada’s Operator List shows Sierra Helicopters Ltd. as an approved domestic operator, file 15066, under CAR 702 (aerial work) and CAR 703 (air taxi), authorized for dangerous goods. Its Approved Maintenance Organization register shows approval 80-08. The BC Forest Safety Council’s SAFE list of 2 October 2026 shows certificate 4453, valid to 13 November 2027. The COR badge rests on Sierra’s own statement and has not been checked yet — see the list below.
Two different claims, kept separate. The footer line is a territory acknowledgement — it says where Sierra flies from. It is not a statement about which Nation owns Sierra. The current site says “Indigenous owned” on its homepage and “Aboriginal owned” on its About page, and names no Nation, band or community. Neither does this page.
Pitt Meadows is on the traditional, unceded territory of q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie) First Nation. The wording mirrors the City of Pitt Meadows’ acknowledgement, which the City developed in collaboration with Katzie. Sierra should confirm they want this line and clear the wording with Katzie before launch.
No Indigenous artwork appears anywhere on this page, deliberately. Formline, Coast Salish and other traditions are distinct and specific designs carry family and Nation rights; without knowing Sierra’s own Nation, generating decoration in any of those styles would be appropriation. If Sierra names their Nation, the right next step is to commission work from an artist of that Nation.
Typography note. The page’s main Barlow is a latin-only subset and contains neither character the Katzie spelling needs — ə and the
combining mark U+0313. A second small Barlow subset
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.lang-hqm. Without it the Nation’s name silently breaks to a different
typeface mid-word with the diacritics landing in the wrong places. If this page is ported
to Squarespace, that subset has to come across too.
No aggregateRating. TripAdvisor reviews exist but the numbers are not
verified, and rating markup that does not match a visible on-page rating is a
manual-action risk. No openingHours until the hangar confirms them.
aggregateRating in the schema — the overall score and review
count are unverified, and third-party aggregate ratings are a manual-action risk.