CHC Appoints New Board Member

CHC Appoints New Board Member 


ST. JOHN'S, NF, June 9  /PRNewswire/ -- Craig L. Dobbin, O.C., Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of CHC Helicopter Corporation ("CHC") (TSX: FLY.A and
FLY.B; NYSE: FLI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jack M. Mintz to
the Board of Directors.

Dr. Mintz is President and Chief Executive Officer of the C.D. Howe Institute,
as well as Deloitte and Touche LLP Professor of Taxation at Joseph L. Rotman
School of Management and co-director of the International Tax Program,
Institute of International Business, both at the University of Toronto. Dr.
Mintz serves on the boards of Brascan, the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation, and
Atlantic Council of Canada. Dr. Mintz is an Associate Editor of Contemporary
Accounting Research and International Tax and Public Finance, and is a research
fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany.

Dr. Mintz has published in excess of 180 books and articles in the field of
public economics and fiscal federalism. He has served as chair of the Technical
Committee on Business Taxation and Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the
Federal Department of Finance and has consulted widely with the World Bank, the
International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development, the governments of Canada, Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, and
Saskatchewan, and various businesses and nonprofit organizations.

CHC Helicopter Corporation is the world's largest provider of helicopter
services to the global offshore oil and gas industry, with aircraft operating
in 30 countries and a team of approximately 3,400 professionals worldwide.

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This press release may contain projections and other forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the "safe harbour" provision of the United States Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these projections and other
statements represent our best current judgement, they are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary. These statements may
involve risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, factors detailed
in CHC's Annual Report on Form 20-F and in other filings with the United States
SEC. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should
underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially
from those indicated. 

DATASOURCE: CHC Helicopter Corporation



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