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    Seacoast Helicopters - Seacoast Helicopters...the official helicopter of The Morning Buzz!

    Seacoast Helicopters

    (15 reviews)

    Warning: Seacoast Helicopters https://seacoasthelos.com/team/…read more In December I bought a helicopter tour gift certificate for my son as a Christmas present. Recently we tried to make a reservation and were told the "helicopter" (singular) is not operating while they wait for scheduled maintenance. When I asked when that's scheduled for they said they didn't know and they'd call me. They advertise 5 aircraft but all are not flying? Is that how these businesses run? Ground everything and wait around for the maintenance tech to show up but you don't know when?https://www.facebook.com/Seacoast-Helicopters-563364437039014/ I got the feeling I was being smoke screened so I asked for a refund and they agreed. $675! I also told them the card I used has been cancelled due to fraud. I instructed them to use a new card. Of course they didn't listen and attempted on the old card. Peoples Bank said the refund will never make it to a cancelled card. Today when the refund didn't arrive, I decided to drive over to Pease and see if I could talk to someone. Their place was a ghost town. 4 choppers sitting in a hangar. 1 kid intern who's been on the job 2 weeks. I tell him I need to speak with someone of authority and we need to resolve the refund today. He puts the owner on the phone. He's evasive, slippery, condescending. Before I left he promised me he'd put a check in the mail to me today. Later I got a text message from him saying he's not going to send a check and I'll get a refund on the card I used to make the purchase. You know, the one that Peoples Bank said would not work! Sheesh. Not a great listener. This is a guy who speaks on full broadcast mode. No receiver. Phrases like "you need to listen" "I don't need to listen to you" "Are you calling me a liar?" You know the twist and shout school of communication. Twist words and shout a lot. After I got off the phone, the intern tells me he's been trying to process 15 refunds in the 2 weeks he's been there and only 8 have gone through. Then he tells me his first paycheck was "mailed" to him but he never got it. Finally it did arrive but the co founder told him not to cash it and she'd write him another check. You know where this is going when they say "the check is in the mail" and "don't cash that one, we'll give you a new one". I tell the poor kid (literally poor in the context of they don't seem to pay him) that he ought to be concerned if a helicopter tour company hasn't flown any helicopters in weeks. He says "we don't have any pilots". Of course you don't. People leave if they don't get paid! Later I called back to ask the intern a question and he says "guess what, they are selling the company and I got laid off." Facebook page hasn't been updated since June. A hangar full of helos not flying. No pilots. Screwing with a summer intern. Screwing with paying customers. Screwing with pilots. Beware.

    Every avenue to contact the company since last summer has been unanswered. We got burned on a…read morebirthday flight the day before last summer. They gladly took my upgrade $ since I had a gift certificate to use. Kept calling all of last summer and zero effort to refund my money. So $350 for the gift certificate along with $175 ( I have bank statements) upgrade and zero service rendered.

    Southern Maine Aviation

    Southern Maine Aviation

    (6 reviews)

    Ever think about flying a plane? Well Southern Maine Aviation offers discovery flights that allow…read moreyou to do just that! My best friend is joining the air force and in preparation she has been going on discovery flights to get hours and experience. For my birthday this year she surprised me with a gift certificate for a free flight. Upon arrival we introduced to our instructor Aaron Poetz. I would 100% recommend him and would definitely request him in the future. He made our flying experience one to remember. This is something I think everyone should try at least once in their life. So grateful for the experience I had this morning and cannot wait to do it again. Thank you Southern Maine Aviation and Aaron!

    If I could give SMA negative 5 stars, I would…read more They are a TOTAL Scam. Waste of $. All of these "positive" reviews you see are Fake. Read my experiences with them to see why they are FULL OF S*it, with nasty, condescending people in charge (Andrew Button and "owner" Mark Damuth). Stay away from Southern Maine Aviation The "manager" mark Damuth--is one nasty human being (pos). He is condescending and takes no responsibility for his inept instructors or company; the "chief pilot" Andrew is nearly as bad. Mark believes a paying customer who makes legitimate, verifiable complaints about the 'service' from the company and employees and requesting to get what they, the paying customer, fully paid for is somehow considered "harassment" and "threatening "and he will then REFUSE you service (BTW, I had my lawyer check my complaints and he could've brought a defamation suit against Damuth for saying that I was threatening because I did NO such thing; he just doesn't want to hear negative reviews about his sh!t company)! I've never been treated this way as a paying customer. Avoid Logan as a flight instructor. If you have a tight budget, time restrictions in your life and clear goals, I'd highly urge you to NOT use this company for flight training! Do NOT waste your time or money (unless you just want to burn $ with no set goal) at Southern Maine Aviation. I was fortunate to be able to take a leave from my job and had the money to finish a rating that I had wanted. I had said NUMEROUS times to Southern Maine/instructor that I wanted to be scheduled EVERY DAY, so that I can finish this rating ASAP. I had repeated this several times. From my past experiences with flight training, as well as per the advice of an airline pilot and a CFI from another company, and they concur with me, that you need to fly every day, or at least several times a week, in order to become and stay proficient with the maneuvers in order to pass the checkride. PERIOD. Further part 141 companies, which Southern Maine claims to be, that I have used in the past only allowed for TEN HOURS of training for this particular rating (see ATP). It CAN be done in that timeframe with a GOOD instructor and company = neither of which i got from SMA! I had been trying SINCE March to May of 2023 to finish this with Southern Maine, for a rating that shouldve taken NO more than ten hours; and I barely got scheduled once a week and not a care in the world from my "instructor", the "chief" pilot or "manager". So, i never was able to get my rating after spending $4k+! My instructor screwed up the schedule and canceled MY slot bc he had someone else in it. My instructor stated that he'd schedule me asap.....that was in may 2023 and i never heard back from him. After unsuccessful attempts to get my complaints rectified by the "manager/owner", i have just gotten no accountability, condescension and nastiness and wrongfully accused of "making threats"...im still waiting for Mark to show me where i allegedly made these threats (hes a lying pos). I refused to continue to pay to get this type of training from this company, when I clearly dont matter as a customer that had paid a lot of $$. So now, after MONTHS of studying, wasted time, gas, mileage/wear and tear on car, and $4000+ pissed away with Southern Maine, I still have NOTHING. Since I never was not sufficiently prepped or signed off for a checkride with Southern Maine, I am still no closer to my goals then when I started....just poorer. If you have a goal of finishing as fast as possible to get flight training, do NOT use Southern Maine. Go to an actual 141 school. Going with Southern Maine, with no clear focus on your training or when/if youll finish your goals, with incompetent instructors/"chief" pilot Button/owner Damuth, is NOT the way to go. N ow, thanks to Southern Maine not really giving a hoot about my goals, needs or training, I am out of luck with regards to finishing my rating and my flying future. I may never have opportunity to finish my training and head to the airlines. Avoid this company if you want to get your certs and ratings within reasonable times, per 141 standards. DO NOT WASTE TIME OR $ WITH SMA

    CHI Aerospace - flightinstruction - Updated May 2026

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