In the summer, most of Maine’s landscape shines in varying shades of green, whether miles of forest or acres of farmland. If weather permits, maybe we’ll fly with a door off and you’ll feel the breeze and smell the smells from below. Perhaps you are an organized sports fan so maybe we can glimpse or photograph your favorite event from above. Maybe your pleasures run to the backcountry, in which case perhaps some route finding or reconnaissance for a hiking trip in the hills or mountains will be our objective for the helicopter flight?
The spring is a good time to view the ground before trees leaf out and winter flying is a treat with Maine’s snow pack and varied ice conditions to view and photograph from above. One of our favorite things about helicopter flights are the amazing patterns in nature we see from this vantage point and any season can be great for this.
Our famous jagged coastline and generally rugged terrain statewide have provided Maine with an abundance and diversity of wetlands unequalled in the Northeastern United States. Fully 25 percent of Maine's land area is wetlands, four times the wetland area of the other five New England States combined. Seeing the contrast between land and water throughout the state is a treat. Beaver dams and huts are usually visible and if we are lucky, perhaps we’ll spot a moose, some deer or maybe even a sandhill crane. If you want to see eagle nests, great blue heron rookeries (heronries) and other wildlife and natural features, we can make this happen. If man-made structures like dams, shipyards, bridges or historical features pique your interest, we can plan your helicopter tour accordingly.
Over five million acres of Maine's wetlands are freshwater types (wooded swamps, shrub swamps, bogs, freshwater meadows, freshwater marshes and floodplains). Only 157,500 acres are tidal types (tidal flats, salt marsh, brackish marsh, aquatic beds, beach bars and reefs). This brings us to one of the most popular attractions, the Maine coast!
Maine has just under 3,500 miles of coastline and virtually all of it can be explored by helicopter. Our scenic helicopter tour can take us over a huge variety of topography along the coast including rocky peninsulas, sand beaches, coves and rivers and of course the bold coast downeast. There’s probably no better way to see the coast than by letting Point of View Helicopter Services take you island hopping over some of Maine’s 4,600 islands. Casco Bay, the Kennebec River and Muscongus Bay are all different and all within easy reach of our base at the Auburn-Lewiston airport (KLEW).
Maine has about 65 lighthouses on the open coast and our rivers. These are all unique and all reachable by our helicopter. Maine even has the only inland lake light east of the Mississippi River and it’s on the National Historic Register. Most lighthouses have an iconic quality to them and an aerial perspective provides a wonderful “taste of Maine.”
Let’s not forget our home, Merrymeeting Bay, a freshwater tidal inland delta formed by the junction of six rivers and draining nearly 40% of Maine and part of New Hampshire. The Bay is unique in the entire world and is known for its bald eagle populations, spawning and nursery habitat for the 12 migratory fish species inhabiting the Gulf of Maine, a dozen rare plants living in the intertidal zone, endangered and threatened species including two types of sturgeon and Atlantic salmon and of course our waterfowl, with Merrymeeting Bay being the largest fall staging area for migratory waterfowl north of Chesapeake Bay.
Over the years our satisfied passengers have ranged in age from in-utero to their late 90’s and from able bodied to held together with a variety of metal and plastic hardware. If we can get you in the helicopter, you will have a great flight! If you are one of the few not interested in a flight with Point of View Helicopter Services, please consider giving a scenic helicopter flight or helicopter tour to someone special in your life. Celebrate them! If you are a business owner, consider a scenic helicopter flight or helicopter tour as an employee reward for a job well done. Or, maybe use it as a raffle opportunity to bring in new business.
Helicopter flights, particularly over Maine’s beautiful and ever-changing terrain, never go out of style. Purchase a Point of View Helicopter Services Gift Certificate today!
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