Before getting its own AS-350B3 HB-ZKZ, the police of the canton of Zurich often leased helicopters fom Heli Linth, and then applied a big "Police" label to the fuselage. It can be seen here visiting Helimission's heliport in Trogen. HB-ZBJ was built in 1999 and was operated by Heli Linth till 2012, when it was sold to Tundra Helicopters in Canada as C-GSFY.

This 1986 built IL-76 first saw service with the Soviet AF, then with the Ukraine AF before Volare Aircompany bought it in December of 1997. It was one of four IL-76 each bringing a SAAF Oryx helicopter for relief work to Madagascar, after Cyclone Gafilo hit the island severely in March 2004. It is seen here - loaded with an Oryx - departing TNR and heading back to South Africa.

This King Air has been operated by the "Seychelles Marketing Board", hence the registration S7-SMB. It was frequently visiting Madagascar and was sold to South Africa in December of 2009, becoming ZS-ZOO.

The Israel Navy operated two former US Coast Guard HH-65A Dolphins between 1985 and 1997 (one crashed in September of 1996). As from 1996, five AS-565MA Panthers, locally known as Atalef, were introduced to the Israel Navy. The aircraft are operated by the IAF's 193 Squadron based at Ramat David and of course on various frigattes. Unfortunately, 895 - which is the last of the five delivered - crashed on January 3, 2022, killing two of the three crew on board. Note the missing cabin door on the LH fuselage, as sonar and other electronic equipment is located behind it.

This 1997 built EC135 was first operated by Schider Helicopter Service as OE-XXR in Austria, before it became the 1st twin engine helicopter with Air Glaciers in 2014. It still wears the original Schider paint scheme, and has - surprisingly - only been equipped with a rescue hoist in late 2021. Note the white titles and registration over the previous black letters it carried on other images in the database. Based in Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland.

In the 2nd half of 2021 alone, Air Glaciers doubled it's rescue helicopter fleet by adding two more EC135's. Besides HB-ZRK (based in Lauterbrunnen) and HB-ZEF (Sion), HB-ZUC joined the fleet in August 2021 and was based in Collombey, while HB-ZUI pictured here was registered in December 2021 and is now flying HEMS missions out of Saanen. HB-ZUI is a 2014 built heli which was previously operated by Danish operator Uni-Fly under registration OY-HJG.

Seen here landing in Bern for the first time is Czech low cost carrier SmartWings, bringing Slowak ice hockey club "Slovan Bratislava" from the Swedish town of Borlange. This particular 2007 built airframe started it's career with XL Airways Germany as D-AXLE, before being operated by canadian operator Canjet Airlines as C-GDGT during a few winter seasons. It then joined the SmartWings fleet in May of 2013, just to be subleased to Canada again for each Winter season, alternating registration OK-TVY with canadian registation C-GTQY while operating for Air Transat and Travel Service.

This 2001 built EC135 carried test registration D-HECA and from November 2001 was based at the (now Schenk Air) Heliport in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg. It was upgraded to T2 standard in 2005 and later to version T2+. It still is active with the ÖAMTC, having served under different "Christopherus" callsigns over the years in various parts of Austria. Aslo since 2001, the ÖAMTC operates an all EC135 fleet and currently maintains 18 bases throughout Austria. So far, 34 different EC135's have been registered to the ÖAMTC (OE-XEA to OE-XEZ, OE-XVA to OE-XVF, plus OE-XVI & OE-XVL). Scanned from a slide.

Foundation Helimission bought this AS350 from Eurocopter Malaysia (ECM) in August 2005. It was overhauled and fitted to the Helimission utility standard by ECM in Kuala Lumpur, where it is seen here before being shipped to Switzerland. The heli still carries the previous indonesian registration from the time it was operated by Indonesian Air Transport. Previous registrations were PT-HMC (Brazil) and F-GKMD (France). It became HB-ZHQ in 2006 and later ET-AMW in Ethiopia, where it served with Helimission till 2016. Back in Switzerland an re-registered to HB-ZHQ at the time of upload.

LN-OAC is shown here shortly before receiving a 12 Year Inspection, overhaul and a new livery for it's new destination Indonesia, where it is operated by Helimission's subsidary HELIVIDA Indonesia as PK-HCG.

In 2009, the Albanian AF ("Forca Ajrore Shqiptare") ordered five Cougars for troop transport, Medevac, SAR and VIP duties. Unfortunately, the 1st one (serialled FA-630) crashed during a pre-delivery testflight in July 2012, while it was still with Eurocopter in France. The remaining four are based at Tirana Farka Heliport (LAFK) and FA-633 shown here returns from the acceptance flight after undergoing heavy maintenance at RUAG Aerospace in Alpnach. RUAG is a well known and competent Super Puma / Cougar MR&O center, drawing from 35 years of maintaining the Swiss AF Super Pumas.

Built 2002, ex test registration D-HECA. This EC135 became the 1st of it's kind in Switzerland when it was registered as HB-ZEF on December 16, 2002. The red and white stars symbolize the flag of the canton of Valais. Originally of the version T2, it was modified to T3 standard in November 2015 and at the same time received a slightly different livery, see also picture ID 303717. With the delivery of Air Zermatt's 2nd Bell 429 HB-ZOZ in May of 2018, HB-ZEF was sold to Air Glaciers in early July of 2018 and based in Sion, from where it still operates at the time of upload.

Built in 1991, first registered in the US as N6042S, then as D-HMIR in Germany, back to the FAA register as N350R before being sold to Norway as LN-OAC around 2002. In July of 2014, Swiss foundation Helimission bought this helicopter to be operated in Indonesia. LN-OAC is seen here just prior taking off for its ferry flight to Trogen Heliport (LSXT), Switzerland, where Helimission's international headquarter is located. After receiving a 12 year inspection and a fresh livery, it was briefly registered as N356HM (Helimission Inc, USA) before getting its current registration PK-HCG.

Ex 3A-MJP (Heli Air Monaco), see also picture ID 426021. After seing this heli in Monaco in September of 1993, it was a joy to have another encounter with it some 20 years later, on the other side of the planet. RP-C1207 still wears the Heli Air Monaco colors when it was photographed during relief efforts after typhoon Haiyan (locally known as typhoon Yolanda) swept through the central Philippines in November of 2013. From the stickers applied, it appears that the Eurocopter foundation made it available to Geneva based aid organisation "Medecins Sans Frontieres" (Doctors Without Borders).

Developped from the single engine SA-360 Dauphin (only 36 units built), the SA-365C Dauphin 2 was just a bit more successfull, with some 80 units manufactured between 1977 & 1981. The Dauphin-Series only became a success with the introduction of the AS-365N version. 3A-MJP is a 1978 built airframe first operated in the US as N90049, followed by a conversion to C3 standard in 1984 (registered F-WYMC). Heli Air Monaco then flew it till around 2012. In July 2011, this airframe wore a Israel AF type camo livery for Bratt Pitts movie World War Z (shot in Malta). Sold to the Philippines as RP-C1207.

This italian built AW139 has been flying for or within the worldwide acting Helicopters NZ group since it was manufactured in late 2008. It briefly went on the New Zealand register as ZK-HUL before flying as VH-NZE for HNZ Australia Pty between January 2009 and March 2011. It is seen here passing through Subang on it's way to Thailand, becoming HS-SFH a few days later. Leased to and flying for SFS Aviation till May 2014. Back to Australia as VH-NZZ, then ZK-IHP and to Papua New Guinea as P2-NZE from 2016-2018. Operating in the yellow/black PHI (NZ Ltd) livery as ZK-IHP at the time of upload.

This 1999 built airframe first carried registration F-OHVO before being registered in Malaysia as 9M-JPG. It was later re-registered to 9M-ABU and operated by MAJU Holding, as can be seen on the cowling in this 2005 picture. In June of 2006, the heli was sold to Phoenix Heli-Flight in Canada, where it became C-GTWN. In due course, MAJU Holding replaced this Twin Ecureuil with an EC135P2+, which also got registration 9M-ABU.

Not much is known about malaysian company "Integrated Training & Services", except that in 2005/2006 it tried to provide basic helicopter flight training for the Royal Malaysian AF. For that, the company aquired four EC120s registered 9M-HAA through 9M-HAD, but never really "took off". 9M-HAB shown here was built in 1998 and as such is one of the first Colibri's coming off the assembly line. It previously flew as SE-JDP with HeliNord in Sweden before joining ITS in 2005. In April 2007 it was sold to North America, where it has been flying as C-GOCA for different helicopter operators.

This 2017 built Ecureuil joined the Air Zermatt fleet in June of 2018. It was imported new to Switzerland by Europavia (Suisse) SA, the official Airbus Helicopter representative and broker for Switzerland. In order to satisfy the usually high demand of AS350B3's for swiss customers, Europavia keeps two or three units of this successful helicopter "in stock" at any given time, allowing them to deliver on short notice if need be.

This 1997 built Grand Caravan first flew for six years as N103VE with Viking Express before being sold to Air Paradive in May 2003. Air Paradive owns and operates the HaBonim airstrip, located 20km south of Haifa and running parallel next to the Tel Aviv - Haifa railway. The company was founded by a former Israel AF F-16 pilot but it is THE skydive center in Israel, with the very nice beach close by. That's what keeps the Caravan busy, but leaves no time to add a nicer color to the airplane...