Recovery operations of SE-JMM after a power failure near Luleå.

Loading the aircraft for a taxi flight into the wilderness.

Pilot Jon Larsson is returning to Kiruna after a passenger flight.

Leaving a set of passengers in the remote outback south of Kiruna.

Rocket recovery operations for "ESRANGE" (European Space and Sounding Rocket Range), in the uppermost northern parts of Sweden.

Rocket recovery operations for 'ESRANGE' (European Space and Sounding Rocket Range), in the uppermost northern parts of Sweden.

Standing next to the hotel at the popular ski resort Riksgränsen, a kilometer east of the border between Sweden and Norway in the most northern parts of Sweden. The helicopter is operated by Westhelicopter and can be seen all across northern Sweden. The company has currently (Nov 2005) got its main bases at Tärnaby and Kiruna.

This photo was taken on the morning the day after the helicopter first sat its foot in Sweden.
The registration SE-JLF was reserved for an AS 350 B2 by Westhelicopter AB on 24 June 2004. The aircraft, constructed in 2001 and registered F-GTRR, was purchased from JCE Aviation, which was currently operating in Bolzano, Italy. SE-JLF arrived to the Swedish maintenance company Helimek AB, at Piteå-Långnäs airfield, on Friday 9 July. The ferry-flight up north included a short refuelling brake at Bromma airport in Stockholm.