Blackcomb Helicopters has announced the appointment of Nick Salisbury to the boards of each of the Blackcomb Helicopters companies. This is Blackcomb’s first new director appointment since McLean Group ownership started and reflects both its high regard for Salisbury and what it sees as an inflection point in the company’s growth, requiring outside perspective and experience.
With more than 25 years of experience in geotechnical drilling and in excess of 10 years working in the design and construction of speciality foundations, Salisbury is listed as a primary inventor on five US patents and has two international patents pending.
In 1998 Salisbury founded Crux Subsurface, a geotechnical exploration and construction company which was acquired by energy construction specialists Quanta Services Company. Salisbury continued as President of Crux, a Quanta Services Company, until 2020. Throughout his tenure at Crux and Quanta, a large percentage of the infrastructure design and construction projects have been completed using helicopter operations. Through much of his career, Salisbury has overseen utility-scale electrical transmission construction, including greenfield, congested corridor, and fire-hardening projects. He has championed new processes and procedures for helicopter-assisted foundation and overhead structure and conductor installation on some of North America’s largest projects. Through this experience, Salisbury has developed extensive relationships with helicopter operators in Canada and the USA.
More recently, he acquired and serves as Chief Executive Officer of EmpireAir, LLC, which is a Spokane-based air charter operator which is pursuing full Part 135 operations with a fleet of turboprop aircraft primarily serving the Pacific Northwest.
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