By Mathew Carr
Who knows more about this apparent data-collection flight over London last night?
mathew@carrzee.net to comment
Here is some info about the airline bioflight.dk operating the flight (which does not provide that sensors in the craft — that’s its client, which is not specified on FlightRadar).
About Bioflight
Bioflight is an Aircraft Operator with more than 25 years’ experience in various kind of Special missions and Aerial Data Acquisition. Though our idealistic and ambitious approach to aviation, we have created an organization that offers a cost-effective platform for multiple types of data acquisition.
Our fleet is dynamic and can be adapted to a specific client request, but as a base it always consist of 8-10 Vulcanair P68´s in both C-models and Observer models.
Bioflight is an independent company with a strong relation to environmental flights in connection with offshore wind farms and wildlife monitoring programs, but has been frequently engaged in firefighting, agriculture, forestry, Navigation mapping, powerlines and LIDAR inspections. Our fleet of Vulcanair P68’s represents one of the most stable and reliable aircraft in its category and only the sky is the limit on what kind of assignments we can be engaged in.
Bioflight was founded in 1997 as a flight division within former Danish environmental consultancy company Bioconsult.
In 2010 Bioflight was separated and sold off to two investors in Denmark and the company was until 2014 kept on hobby basic with two P68`s engaged in visual surveys in Northern Europe.
In 2014 the structure of the company was changes, new members of the management were brought in (Among one of them Mads Brandt who is the owner today ), new aircraft was ordered and 4 new investors acquired the shares. In the coming years, the foundation of Bioflight as we know it today was formed by Mads Brandt and now previous shareholder Michael Froerup.
In 2022 Bioflight became a family-owned company with Mads Brandt acquiring 80% of the shares and Kaj Brandt Petersen with 20%. We operate all over Europe 365 days a year 24/7 with our team of highly skilled and motivated special mission pilots. This combined with some of the industry’s most experienced managements personnel, we offer the best all-around service on the market to our customers.
