Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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An Air Methods spokeswoman has declined to comment to AIN on recent reports in the financial press that the company, the nation's largest helicopter EMS operator, might be up for sale and is working with bankers to sort through potential buyers. "We don't comment on rumors and speculation as a matter of policy," she said.


Pressure to sell the company is said to be led by shareholder Voce Capital Management, a hedge fund. Earlier this month, Voce threatened to launch a proxy war to gain more control over Air Methods. Any sale of the company would be expected to produce a price substantially more than its $1.4 billion market capitalization at the end of January.


Just days before the sale rumors were reported, Air Methods CEO Aaron Todd told AIN, "We remain inquisitive and open to acquiring more programs that can enhance our value proposition." But pressure to sell the company could intensify in the wake of data that suggests that the U.S. helicopter EMS market has topped out and for the first time is contracting in terms of the number of helicopters employed.


Todd conceded, however, "While we don’t have a plan to reduce the size of our fleet, we do think strategically about where we position our aircraft, and that can and has led to base consolidations in certain markets."

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