Timeline
SMFL Helicopters (SMFLH), a Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing (SMFL) Group Company, is a premier, global helicopter lessor committed to disciplined growth and sustainable innovation.
The skills of our team, breadth of our global operating platform, and suite of innovative finance and leasing solutions, gives us the trust, scale, value and efficiency needed to fulfil the needs of helicopter operators and end users.
SMFLH is underpinned by the financial robustness of the SMFL Group.
2026
SMFL Helicopters is launched
2025
SMFL completes acquisition of MRL and LCI
2025
SMFL enters agreement to acquire Macquarie Rotorcraft Limited (MRL)
2025
SMFLH successfully execute US$420 million of loan facilities that can be used for funding vital social projects
2024
SMFLH order up to 21 helicopters from Airbus
2024
2023
SMFLH achieve highest ranking for world’s first helicopter Social Loan Framework
2023
SMFL acquires a 35% stake in LCI
2021
SMFLH expand their helicopter leasing joint venture with the addition of 12 helicopters worth in excess of US$120M