In 2002, the Sécurité Civile started to replace its ageing Alouette III fleet with 38 Eurocopter EC145, of which 26 were registered as F-ZBPA through F-ZBPZ and 12 as F-ZBQA through F-ZBQL. The Sécurité Civile maintains 23 helicopter bases spread throughout France and its overseas territories, using callsign DRAGON followed by the the number of the département in which the base is located. Hence, the Strasbourg based EC145 pictured here (built in 2003) is Dragon 67.

The Kouvola Vocational School has a hangar at Utti airport, where a few helicopters and aircraft are kept for instructional purposes. MD500E HH-8 is one of them.

The Kouvola Vocational School has a hangar at Utti airport, where a few helicopters and aircraft are kept for instructional purposes. Vinka VN-23 is one of the latest additions.

In and around a large shopping mall, several aircraft are on display, like this CKD-built Fw44J which is well-protected from the elements.

Taxing out for a flight to Zwickau (Saxony), using callsign "BPO510". The predecessor of the "Bundespolizei" (till 2005 called "Bundesgrenzschutz") had already operated 23 SA-330 Puma's between 1973 and 2008. The first two AS-332 Super Pumas entered service in 1988, but it was only as from 2004 that 11 more Aérospatiale built AS-332L1's joined the fleet. Those were all 2nd hand mainly sourced from british offshore operators. Further, seven new Eurocopter built L1's (incl. D-HEGW) were introduced as from 2008 and finally, four Airbus H215 were added in 2019, bringing the total SP number to 24.

This 2006 built airframe has first been registered as P4-VSV in Aruba before being bought by Prominterservice Airlines LLC in November of 2020. First reported registration in the Ukraine was UR-AMST but it is not clear if it ever operated as such. Seen here during a technical flight after receiving maintenance by Motorflug.

ex German Air Force 9858 painted to represent the Italian example