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Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:21 Oct, 2010Operator:Photo views:Location:432Photo by:Picture taken during a long navigation school flight.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/2463 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:4 Oct, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:328Photo by:First flight after PPL-examination - lunch at Täby Golf Course.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/2124 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:16 Sep, 2005Operator:Photo views:Location:256Photo by:This photo was taken as the new owner of SE-HVE picked the aircraft up at Bromma Airport after winning the auction on 14:th September 2005.
The helicopter was stolen in August of 2004 and was away for a couple of weeks before it was mystically returned to Bromma Airport. The aircraft was grounded as a result of the adventures. It was placed outdoors, without practically any protection covers at all, and stood there throughout a year. The Swedish Enforcement Administration and Legislation (Kronofogdemyndigheten) offered the aircraft for public selling in late August 2005. The machine was calculated to have flown approx 9 700 hours at that time. It was sold to a private person in the Stockholm area.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/609 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:30 Aug, 2004Operator:Photo views:Location:291Photo by:This photo was taken at Barkarby airfield moments north of central Stockholm earlier today. At first sight it looks like any ordinary static helicopter photo, but, well, it isn't. In fact SE-HVE had been stolen a couple of weeks earlier and when I shot the image it had not yet been fully returned.
An unsuccessful acquiring deal made the planned purchaser fly away with the helicopter from Bromma Airport and hide it. The helicopter hadn't been airworthy for several months due to an absent inspection, but that didn’t stop the pilot. The incident was reported to the police, which issued a national search for the aircraft. It was found hidden under a tarpaulin in the Stockholm area on 28 August.
Who's right and who's wrong in this mess is unknown this far. The strange part of the story is that the helicopter was heard airborne on the radio the day after the exposure, yesterday, still not airworthy. The helicopter tried to get to Bromma, but the airport was closed for the evening, so it landed at Barkarby Airfield instead. So in other words, the image above is the first one of a Swedish helicopter on the run that has been published here.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/1827 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:30 Jun, 2004Operator:Photo views:Location:232Photo by:A rather odd parking - squeezed in between two hangars at Bromma Airport. This parking didn’t last for long though.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/1825 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:5 Sep, 2003Operator:Photo views:Location:225Photo by:The dash-board of HVE, freshly after the make-over.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/1826 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:5 Sep, 2003Operator:Photo views:Location:174Photo by:Photographed a few months after the helicopter had gotten its new beautiful livery.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/1828 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:5 Sep, 2003Operator:Photo views:Location:164Photo by:The tail fin of SE-HVE after the repainting.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/1829 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:5 Sep, 2003Operator:Photo views:Location:193Photo by:Photographed a few months after the helicopter had gotten its new beautiful livery.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/1830 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:Aug, 2003Operator:Photo views:Location:134Photo by:Showing off its new livery. The aircraft was earlier painted in a traditional Jet Ranger look (white and two tones of blue).Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/846 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:25 Mar, 2003Operator:Photo views:Location:456Photo by:Loaded on a truck in order to be transported to a paint shop to get a new livery.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/608 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:16 Apr, 1995Operator:Photo views:Location:750Photo by:Taking off for a local sightseeing flight.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/2632 -
Aircraft:SE-HVEPhoto date:Type:24 Mar, 1994Operator:Photo views:Location:158Photo by:The newly-imported SE-HVE was photographed at the power company Vattenfall's base in Högsäter during a stage of powerline inspections. Note the bubble door on the left hand-side of the aircraft, enabling the inspector to get a better view of the powerline. The photo also pictures Osterman Helicopter's new helicopter painting, which was applied to all the machines in the fleet except the ambulance in Uppsala, SE-HVL.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-HVE/988
SE-HVE
Information about SE-HVE
Aircraft Data
Reg: SE-HVE
S/N: 2949
Year: 1980
Type:
Last known operator:
History:
N5734X, N22AB, G-OFAB
Fate:
Later on Osterman Helicopter acquired the helicopter. It was most often based in Gothenburg, but could also be seen in Stockholm and other parts of Sweden. One of the most famous tasks was when it carried the large "sky-sign" airborne advertise system (simply a huge number of lamps) during the annual Stockholm Water Festival for a couple of years. As the EC 120B Colibri became more popular SE-HVE was found superfluous and was sold to a private costumer in Stockholm.
The current owner, Biltarget i Stockholm AB, contacted Janne Österwall at Eastair in early-2003 and asked him to make a total make-over of the helicopter. A few months later the machine was looking as good as new. New interior, leather seats, new dash board, integrated phone, 5 channel CD-player, Garmin GPSMAP 295, BOSE headsets and a new external look were some of the improvements.
The helicopter was in fact stolen from Bromma airport in mid August 2004. An unsuccessful acquiring business deal made an interested purchaser fly away with the helicopter from Bromma Airport and hide it. The helicopter hadn't been airworthy for several months due to an absent annual inspection, but that didn’t stop the pilot. The incident was reported to the police, which issued a national search for the aircraft. It was found hidden under a tarpaulin in the Stockholm area on 28 August. The aircraft was mystically returned to Bromma Airport on the last day of August - with no records of how many hours it had flown the last weeks.
The aircraft was grounded as a result of the adventures. It was placed outdoors, without practically any protection covers at all, and stood there throughout a year (including the harsh winter). The Swedish Enforcement Administration and Legislation (Kronofogdemyndigheten) offered the aircraft for public selling in late August 2005 and held an auction on 14:th September 2005. The machine was calculated to have flown approx 9 700 hours at that time. It was sold to a private person in the Stockholm area, who picked up the aircraft from Bromma a couple of days later.