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. If you wish to be added to, or removed from, the Company's distribution list, please contact . 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 CONTACT: Jo Mark Zurel, Senior Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer, (709) 570-0567; Derrick Sturge, Vice President Finance & Corporate Secretary, (709) 570-0713

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