Local Businessman Brings Helicopter Tours Back to Branson!

Ozark Mountain Helicopters is proud to announce that visitors to Branson can once again experience the thrill and excitement of flying in a helicopter.

Jim Evertsen, a contractor from West Plains, Mo, is taking his love of flying helicopters to new heights. With the absence of this exciting and anticipated attraction in Branson over the past two years, many rumors, online message boards and hopeful tourists kept the dream alive that someday, helicopter tours would return to Branson. Well, Ozark Mountain Helicopters has seen the need and is answering the call.

"We get calls every day from individuals who took a ride as a child, and can still remember the feeling and excitement of being up in a helicopter, and want to share that feeling with their children." "That's why I love what I do." Says Evertsen.

This business is unique in the fact that it involves two father/son teams. Jim, who has been flying Helicopters religiously for the past six years will function as Owner and Chief Pilot, while his son Casey assumes the responsibilities of the Director of Marketing and Public Relations.

The second father/son team consists of Lee and Shanon Christensen. With over 60 years of flight experience between the two, there is little these two have not seen or done in a helicopter.

To maximize the safety of their passengers, the Taney County Airport has been chosen as their base of operations. With its close proximity to Hwy 65 and Branson Landing, it is lacking the tall hotels, overhead wires, traffic lights and nearby obstructions that are not conducive to safe take offs and landings. The tours will take passengers over Branson Landing,Hwy 76, Table Rock Dam, Lake Taneycomo, Inspiration Tower and Silver Dollar City.