A helicopter tour company in Branson may soon lose its permit allowing it to fly tourists around town and across Table Rock Lake on guided excursions.

The Branson Planning and Zoning Commission will take up the revocation of a special use permit for Adventure Helicopter Tours on West Highway 76 at its meeting Tuesday night at City Hall. 

The City’s Planning Department says owners of Adventure Helicopter Tours next to the Icon Theatre and across from Ripley’s on the strip failed to pay their taxes.  Consequently, the city revoked their business license.  The city says without a business license, no special use permit is allowed, thus grounding future flights.

A Planning Department representative says City Hall knows of a similar company hoping to open up a helicopter tour business at the same location.  Branson’s Planning and Zoning commission will take up that request in March.