This brand new Ontario Provincial Police stopped to refuel at the Canadian Helicopters heliport (CSH6) at Les Cèdres airport, Quebec while flying patrols along the St Lawrence River that forms the border between eastern Ontario and northern New York State. The aircraft was registered to the OPP three weeks earlier on May 10 following completion at the Eurocopter Canada Ltd. facility in Fort Erie, Ontario. The EC135 replaced a AS355F Twin Star carrying the same registration.

The Ontario Provincial Police operated a pair of Aerospatiale AS355F2 TwinStars (C-FOPP, msn 5459 and C-FOPS, msn 5460) between May 1991 and May 2011 until they were replaced by a pair of new Eurocopter EC135P2+ helicopters which were reassigned the same registrations. One of the TwinStars was based at a heliport behind the OPP Headquarters in Orillia, Ontario and the other originally based to the north in Sudbury. Both EC135s were completed at the Eurocopter (now Airbus) helicopter factory in Fort Erie, Ontario and are based at the Orillia heliport.