Veteran-owned helicopter operator at Sonoma County Airport, flying since 2014. Aerial tours of Dry Creek, Alexander Valley, the Russian River, and the Sonoma Coast, alongside charter, flight training, and aerial work.
HeliCo Sonoma flies helicopter tours over Sonoma and Napa wine country from Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport, the same airfield north of Santa Rosa that anchors the region's general aviation. The company was founded in 2014 as a rotary-wing flight school and tour operator, and has since broadened into a full-service aviation business: helicopter maintenance, aerial firefighting, law enforcement support, heavy-lift and aerial crane work, utility pole setting, commercial charter, and aerial photography. It is a U.S. veteran-owned business. For wine country visitors, the tour line is the relevant offering: short scenic flights that trade the tasting-room itinerary for a half-hour aerial read of the whole valley system at once.
The tour routes are built around Sonoma County's geography rather than specific wineries. One heads northwest up Westside Road into Dry Creek Valley, crosses the Lake Sonoma dam, and drops into Alexander Valley before following the Russian River south past the Chalk Hill AVA. Another runs out over the Russian River to the coast at Jenner, hugging the shoreline north toward Salt Point. A Napa route crosses Knights Valley and traces the Yountville, Oakville, and Rutherford appellations before circling downtown Napa. Custom itineraries are available. Flights operate from the airport's general aviation terminal; tours are weather-dependent and booked by reservation.
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