This 1981 built helicopter is amog the first produced and thus one of the oldest Bell 412 still flying. It started its career in Australia as VH-XCF with CareFlight QLD before joining Heli Austria in May 2016. Swiss operator Lions Air chartered OE-XHT for the winter season 2016/2017 and based it at Sion, after which Heli Austria assigned it to a fire fighting contract in Spain. A couple of years ago, Heli Austria started to paint each of its helicopters in a unique color, and most wear a nicer layout like this all black color. At least 5 Bell 412's have so far been operated by Heli Austria.

Even though the HEMS market is "flooded" with Airbus H145 helicopters these days, it's nice to see that Heli-Austria takes a different route, at least for the time being. Thanks to the austrian company, aviation enthusiasts can still enjoy MD902 Explorers in the HEMS role. At the time of upload, the company operated no less than nine of it's own, while two more - HB-ZZW and HB-ZZM - are registered in Switzerland, owned by Linth Air Service but leased to Heli-Austria. HB-ZZM pictured here was built in 2000 and till the end of 2016 served as G-HPOL with the Humberside Police in the UK.

Heli Austria shaped logo, but non standard Heli Air Swiss titles.

Still in colors of previous operator Gulf Helicopters. Ex C-GFNN, N3103K, D-HHTT[2], N92801, A7-HAZ, to D-HAFN[4], EC-MPO

operating as Martin 2 / HEMS helicopter

due to the good ski weather the Alps HEMS helicopters were active until dawn.

Martin 2 amidst the mountains of Tyrol. Formerly HB-XJF. In the background, Ecureuil OE-XNN can be seen delivering a bucketload of concrete to a construction site down in the valley, near the Imst - Pitztal railway station.

Landing after delivering several bucketloads of concrete to a nearby construction site.