1977. City and Country Helicopters Pty. Limited established an operation at Bankstown NSW offering Helicopter Pilot Training and Helicopter Maintenance.

1978. Appointed distributor for Hiller Aviation for Australia and Papua New Guinea. Commenced Mining Survey Operations in NT, QLD and WA.

1980. Established new Office in Caloundra, QLD. Moved operation to Caloundra facility consolidating exploration support services.

1981 Set up thirteen field bases to cover Agricultural Mustering Operations and Mining Survey Operations. Engineering Division overhauling components and manufacturing replacement airframe sections.

1985. Appointed Robinson Helicopter Service Centre. Appointed Australia Distributor for Robinson Hiller corporation.

1988. ‘Chopperline’ selected as Group Trading Name. Official Helicopter supplier for World Expo ’88. Carried 46,000 passengers without incident on day and night flights.

1989. Gladstone Marine Pilot transfer Contract Training contract for one of Japan’s largest helicopter operators. Training contract for Ace Helicopter.

1990. Training contract for Tohoku Air Service (Tohoku Denryoku) Training and maintenance Contracts for Fijian goverment Helicopter Unit. Awarded Coastwatch Contract for Australian Customs Service.

1992. Principal Contractor to Airmobile Australia Pty. Ltd. for major contracts involving live-line maintenance in VIC and SA.

1993. Gladstone Department of Environment & Heritage Reef Surveillance Contract (from Gladstone) Royal Malaysian Police, Pilot Training Contract.

1995. Training Contract for AirFlite Japan (capital of Toyota and Japan Air Line).

1997. Royal Malaysian Police, Pilot Training Contract.

2000. Coastline Flight Training’ selected as Fixed wing division’s Trading Name.

2001. Training contract with Malaysian Fire & Rescue Department.

2002. Tenth intake of officers and instructors from Royal Malaysian Police Air Wing.

2003. Sixth intake of officers from Malaysian Fire & Rescue Department. May A Squirel AS350 was purchased and added to our fleet of aircraft.

2004 Awarded Flying School of the Year – 2004, Aviation Safety Pty Ltd; Also awarded Ian L Paull as Chief Flying Instructor of the Year – 2004, Aviation Safety Pty Ltd. October The school purchased a Schweizer 300 CBi helicopter to further expand the range of instructional aircraft.

2005. Installed a GeoSim CASA approved Category B helicopter flight simulator and began preparation for enhanced helicopter night and command instrument ratings. 

2006. CASA approved upgraded AOC to cover helicopter command instrument rating, Theory school capability expanded to cover IREX theory.

2007. Acquired by the Curry Kenny Aviation Group. New owners began upgrading school equipment and ordered new aircraft, some of which have been delivered.

2007. Heli-Centre Pty Ltd, our maintenance provider and Bell Customer Service Facility was also acquired by the acquired by Curry Kenny Aviation Group in September 2007.