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Information about SE-HPM
Last update: 2 Mar 2012
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Aircraft Data
Reg: SE-HPM
S/N: 45425
Year: 1980
 
Type:
 
Last known operator:
 
History:
 
Fate:
SE-HPM arrived to Sweden, new from the Bell Helicopters factory, back in 1980. It was purchased by the Swedish National Police via the agent Ostermans Aero AB.
On 27 September the helicopter was registered SE-HPM by Järfälla based Ostermans Aero AB. After a few weeks of modifications for police purposes (radios, direction finder and so on) the national police took over the ownership of the helicopter. The police gave it the radio callsign "Polis 944" and the individual police radio code 8-0944. The helicopter was based in Boden, in northen Sweden.
Polis 944 was responsible for an enormous area (approx one third of Swedens surface). It covered the area between Lycksele in south and Treriksröset in north. No wonder that SE-HPM was the first Swedish Police Long Ranger to be equipped with an Allison 250-C30, replacing the original C28.
As a result of the long distances in Norrland the helicopter was the Long Ranger that flew the most number of hours in the police. With systems as a two-axis autopilot, FLIR, camera, direction finder, stretcher mounts and so on, she is said to be the Long Ranger that the pilots liked the most.

In mid-2000 the Swedish National Police decided to purchase seven new Eurocopter EC135P2s destined to replace the Jet- and Long Rangers. The helicopters arrived one by one and in September 2002 SE-HPM:s successor SE-HPV arrived to Boden. SE-HPM was moved to Patria Ostermans Aeros facilities at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, to be prepared for the selling.

The helicopter was first prepared for a Hungarian costumer, but the purchase was never completed. Instead Stockholm-based SWT Aero acquired the helicopter in mid 2003. SE-HPM was repainted and at 15:20 LMT on 27 June 2003 the machine took off with its new owner from Patria Ostermans Aero.
The retired police work-horse was initially used for private flights within the SWT group, but as the company gained its commercial flight permits in early-2004 the helicopter saw the light of profitable operations. It was mainly used for taxi flights, but was also involved in aerial works, a range of film productions and parachutists-dropping.

After a year of commercial action the helicopter was sold to Vilhelmina-based AB Flygtjänst. The company held a fleet of two Hughes 500s and one Schweizer 300, but needed a larger helicopter for its heliski and taxi operations. The helicopter was flown up north in early March 2004 and made its first official Flygtjänst-operation, a heliski and sightseeing mission at Mt Borgafjäll, on 19 March.

SE-HPM was operated by the company until February 2011, when the firm was purchased by HeliAir Sweden. SE-HPM was transferred to Osterman Helicopter's fleet in March the same year. It was initially leased to the Armed Forces Helicopter Wing for pilot training.

The aircraft was transitioned to the refurbished company Osterman Helicopter i Östersund AB's fleet in December 2011.

SE-HPM was leased to Osterman Helicopter for a year, but it was returned to its owner in March 2012 and joined HeliAir Sweden's fleet.
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