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.

Year of manufacture: 1981. Aircraft first registered in New Zealand: 21 April 1989. Previous Registrations: N54498 & XA-MOZ. Operated by Helicopters (NZ) Ltd.

On display at the Avalon Airshow 2011

On static display at the Avalon Airshow 2011

In Feb 1974 registration ZK-HIH was initially allocated to S-58ET c/n 58-1677 ex N82849, but that sale fell through and the helicopter was not delivered. In Nov 1974 it became c/n 58-1663 ex N82846 instead (seen in this photo), which was sold as PK-OBM in Oct 1979. In May 1993 ZK-HIH was re-used by another helicopter, AS-350B c/n 1723.