Wears the seal of the President of Brazil. Seen at a celebration of the 150th birthday of Alberto Santos-Dumont. Photo by: Müller Marin / Força Aérea Brasileira

Seen here at customs after arrival as "Rescue 5" from Eugene, Oregon. It later departed for Langley. A nice lunchtime surprise!

Taxiing to H3 after arriving from Guayaquil on a stopover before continuing its trip to Cali and then to the US. This helicopter has been helping firemen down in Chile during fire season alongside Ecocopter. Such a nice and rare visit at UIO. Thanks to the pilot who wave at us while he was waiting for his departure. Old registrations of this airframe include: F-GINN, G-BOZK, LN-OMQ, F-WQED, OY-HHC, LN-OMG & C-GBMZ.

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.

One of an initial batch of eight Super Pumas delivered to Venezuela from 1989. Donated to the Bolivian AF as FAB750 in 2006 and reserialled FAB753 in 2007. Returned to Venezuela as 3312 in 2009 and stored at Palo Negro.

Part at this time of GLAM 1/60 (French air Force gouvernment flight);

Registered in March 1999.

The helicopter had been leased by Cabair to carry passengers from a temporary helipad at Grafton Lodge Farm, (Coordinates: 52.104118, -0.907072), into Silverstone Circuit where the 1989 British F1 Grand Prix was being held. It was cancelled from the British register in May 2007 when it was sold to Germany as D-HEGG for use with the Bundespolizei. Note company Sikorsky S-76A G-BMAL in the background.

This helicopter was shuttling passengers from a temporary helipad in a field near Furtho, Northamptonshire, (Coordinates: 52.079227, -0.864512), into Silverstone Circuit where the 1989 British F1 Grand Prix was being held. In August 1997 it was sold to Norsk Helicopters in Norway as LN-OND and moved on to Bristow Australia in 2007 as VH-BZB. It was restored to the British register as G-BLXS in August 2014 but was reportedly stored at Fleetlands Heliport, Hampshire, still wearing it's Australian registration until cancelled by the CAA in November 2019.