If you do a quick google search these days for “Unique Gifts for Helicopter Pilots”, you’ll find slim pickings. It’s not that there isn’t any out there it’s just that they’re hard to find. Sure, you could go on Amazon and find some products for sale that work just fine as a gift for the helicopter pilot in your life but if you want something different you need to look no further.
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Prestige Decanters
Everything about this company screams quality. They produce beautiful, premium-grade, handcrafted and hand-blown Decanters right here in the USA.
So, do yourself a favor, read the “About” section of this company’s website, you’ll quickly realize they are passionate about their products, then do the Helicopter Pilot in your life a favor and check out their Blackhawk Decanter.
Handcrafted solid Oak base, thick durable glass. It’s one of those products that demand attention from the helicopter obsessed enthusiast that you love the most
Displates
Displate specializes in gathering talented artists from all over the world to create exceptional metal posters of over 400,000 designs.
Say goodbye to paper posters and welcome to the 21st century wall art canvas – unique art prints on metal. Displate is a magnet-mounted metal print. It’s durable, it’s steel and it doesn’t require any power tools to hang it.
Check out the images below or visit my very own favorites right here.
PlaneForm
From stainless steel bottle openers to custom metal wall art, PLANEFORM brings its customers superb designs with surprisingly accurate details to ensure maximum satisfaction. Products are entirely American-made from concept to delivery. PLANEFORM has or can deliver, exactly what you are looking, according to their website, Anything is possible!
Squadron Posters
Art representing not just aircraft, armored cavalry, and ships, but also adventure and travel. Making awesome travel posters is a lot of what they do but my favorite by far is the “Jet Black Aircraft Series”.
Check out this CH-53E Super Stallion, as the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. It was developed from the CH-53 Sea Stallion, mainly by adding a third engine, adding a seventh blade to the main rotor and canting the tail rotor 20 degrees. It was built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the US Marine’s.
Aviator Gear
From Challenge Coins, Plaques and Patches to Aircraft Models and Tail Flashes. Aviator Gear has a lot of products that make perfect gifts for Helicopter Pilots.
The best part of all however, is the design component of their website. In their own words, “Our designers will bring your designs to life! You don’t need to be an artist, so draw a chicken scratch of your ideas on the back of a bar napkin, and send us a photo… it’s just that easy!”
METAR Maps
Hand-crafted in the USA, METARmaps™ are wifi connected functional aviation art which blend advanced computer and print technologies to create living art worthy of a spot on your wall.
Each METARmaps design starts with a portion of beautifully published sectionals, adds a tiny computer, Wi-Fi and individually addressable LEDs to acquire and display METAR weather data in real-time.
Whether you are a seasoned pilot, new to the world of aviation, or just interested in watching weather patterns, a METAR map from METARmaps.com makes a stunning addition to any home, office or hangar!
You can choose from the available maps or request your own custom map, when it arrives you connect it to power and Wifi and you’re good to go
METARmaps are the next “must have” for any aviation or weather enthusiast.