Note the engineer dug into the engines, doing maintenance according to the most restrictive health and safety regulations!

A 1982 Mi-8MT, first delivered to the Soviet Army. Then moved to the Kazakh AF. The arrival date is unknown, but it was offered for sale in 2005. Heli Air Services became the new owner and the helicopter was modified to Mi-8MTV-1 and registered as LZ-CDN. Became 9Q-CXD in possibly 2010, then sold to Aerospace Consort. in 2011. Became ER-MGW with Sky One in that same year. Reregistered with Sky One to ER-MYB. First noted as EY-225 with Pegasus Air Serv. in late 2016. To RA-22279 with Geliks on 2 Feb'22. The white Mi-8, most likely in service with Heli Air supported NGOs in Afghanistan in 2008.

The latest online reference to this helicopter that I could find was a You Tube video showing it making a precautionary landing at Vilnius Airport, Lithuania, on 29th February 2020.

Last reported at Chisinau Airport, Moldova, in August 2020.

ex RA-25542, N172RU, 3X-GHL, RA-25542

The Mexican navy showed one of its Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters at the Acapulco Air Show 2003. In 2004, this helicopter was reregistered as AMHT-208, and it was lost as such in a crash near El Perote on 10 September 2009.

unknown photographer

One of several Mi-8s supporting the UN mission in Mali.

c/n 94041 surmised but not confirmed

The United Nations contracted this Vostok owned Mi-8MTV-1 for work in Haiti with the local UN-mission (MINUSTAH). UN-code ranges are allocated for each mission, the low 100-range was used by MINUSTAH at the time.