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Aircraft:D-HULKPhoto date:Type:5 Sep, 2010Operator:Photo views:Location:5076Photo by:D-HULK (ex SE-JUZ) performing a winch-demonstration at a flightshow.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/2857
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 903)Photo date:Type:24 Apr, 2009Operator:Photo views:Location:3621Photo by:The panel in a S-76A++ SAR helicopter.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/3917
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Aircraft:SE-JUZPhoto date:Type:27 Jun, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:1603Photo by:The pilots are cooling down the engines and the hoist operator is cooling down himself on a warm summer's day in mid-2007.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/179
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:27 Jun, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:3546Photo by:Rotor spooling down at Bönhamn harbour, east of Härnösand.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/3835
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:16 Apr, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:1358Photo by:Lifeguard 993 is seen extracting its landing gears prior to landing at the Swedish Maritime Administration’s temporary SAR base at Arlanda Airport in northern Stockholm. The helicopter is used as backup search and rescue aircraft and it’s used whenever the ordinary machine is in for maintenance.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/1195
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:26 Mar, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:1293Photo by:Approaching its temporary base at Patria Helicopter's facilities at Arlanda Airport. The SAR base was soon moved to Norrtälje.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/1296
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:26 Mar, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:2476Photo by:Inspecting the new SAR helicopter base in Norrtälje, a few months prior to moving there. Stockholm's SAR helicopter (SE-HOJ) was still based at Arlanda Airport while waiting for its new station. The aircraft in this picture was the backup SAR helicopter at that time.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/4913
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Aircraft:SE-JUZPhoto date:Type:8 Feb, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:853Photo by:Taxiing towards Patria Helicopter's apron at Arlanda Airport. The SAR activity had Patria's facilities as a temporary base for a couple of years before moving into a dedicated hangar at Norrtälje-Mellingeholm Airfield.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/900
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:8 Feb, 2007Operator:Photo views:Location:1633Photo by:Stockholm's provisional SAR helicopter is taxiing out from Patria Helicopter's heliport at Arlanda Airport prior to take-off. The helicopter was used as a general back up aircraft for Norrlandsflyg's SAR bases in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Sundsvall and Visby.
Pilot Anders Olsson is visible in the co-pilot seat and rescue swimmer Rickard Gillberg (founder of Nordic Rotors) is visible in the back seat.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/1196 -
Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:24 Jul, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:2843Photo by:Lifeguard 993 and Lifeguard 996 (SE-JUY), seen in front of the hangar at the SAR station in Sundsvall. The station was later moved to Skellefteå (and eventually to Umeå).Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/4623
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:22 Apr, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:1678Photo by:SAR training off the coast of Fårö, Gotland.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/5424
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:22 Apr, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:1450Photo by:Winch training off the coast of Fårö, Gotland, back in 2006.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/6263
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Aircraft:SE-JUZPhoto date:Type:9 Apr, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:1082Photo by:Taking off from Patria Helicopter’s heliport at Arlanda Airport. This aircraft is Norrlandsflyg’s main SAR backup helicopter. It moves around between the company’s four SAR bases to cover for the regular machines when they’re in for scheduled maintenance a short period of time each year. Norrlandsflyg is currently (mid-2006) the leading SAR operator in Sweden. It has four of five bases and occupies two S-76C and two S-76C in addition to the backup helicopter.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/632
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:24 Mar, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:1610Photo by:Norrlandsflyg's backup SAR helicopter, which was currently engaged as rescue helicopter in Stockholm, temporary based at Arlanda Airport.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/5319
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:17 Mar, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:3171Photo by:Winch training in Stockholm's archipelago. The rescue helicopter Lifeguard 993 was in temporary service at the newly established civil SAR base in Stockholm before the ordinary helicopter (SE-HOJ) arrived a few months later.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/4052
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Aircraft:SE-JUZPhoto date:Type:25 Feb, 2006Operator:Photo views:Location:1017Photo by:The upcoming backup SAR helicopter SE-JUZ is seen wearing a shiningly new livery during the ferry flight from the re-painting facility in Norway to Sweden.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/425
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Aircraft:SE-JUZPhoto date:Type:19 Jan, 2004Operator:Photo views:Location:2045Photo by:Stand-in as Lifeguard 998 in Gällivare when SE-JUS had it's yearly inspection done.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/177
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:5 Jun, 2002Operator:Photo views:Location:1421Photo by:Leaving a patient on the roof-top helipad of the Uppsala University Hospital.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/1635
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:5 Jun, 2002Operator:Photo views:Location:1294Photo by:Leaving a patient on the roof-top helipad of the Uppsala University Hospital.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/1636
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:May, 2002Operator:Photo views:Location:1058Photo by:Sitting in alert at the 'Victoria' base at the Fyrislund Rescue Station, in the outskirts of Uppsala.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/1634
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Aircraft:SE-JUZ (Lifeguard 993)Photo date:Type:2002Operator:Photo views:Location:2917Photo by:In readiness at the 'Viktoria' rescue station in Uppsala.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUZ/3785
SE-JUZ
Information about SE-JUZ
Aircraft Data
Reg: SE-JUZ
S/N: 760282
Year: 1985
Type:
Last known operator:
History:
N63WW, N92RP, N92RR
Fate:
D-HULK
Background
Norrlandsflyg had recently imported the first two Swedish S-76s when it won the prestigious intensive care contract with Uppsala University Hospital in 1996. Osterman Helicopter had operated a Bell 412 (SE-HVL) on a trial/interim basis at the hospital from 1993, but by contracting Norrlandsflyg and a state-of-the-art Sikorsky S-76 the hospital intended to establish a permanent operation. Norrlandsflyg put one of its recently acquired S-76A (SE-JES) in business in Uppsala in 1996. The aircraft was stationed at the Fyrislund Rescue Station, moments southeast of Uppsala.
After three years the hospital prolonged the contract, but required a more powerful helicopter as a majority of the flights were inter-hospital transports and often went from one rooftop to another. A pre-owned ex-VIP 1985 S-76A++ was acquired from the US. It was overhauled and prepared for EMS operations at the American company Keystone Helicopter Corporation.
Arriving in Sweden
The aircraft was transported to Sweden in late-1998 and it entered service as Lifeguard 993 in Uppsala on 7 of January 1999. Lifeguard 993 became a very popular helicopter among the hospital staff and the pilots. Its spacious cabin, fast cruise speed and great engine power made it a versatile Lifeguard.
Leaving Uppsala
As the contract period was getting close to its end the hospital opened a tender for the next period in mid 2003. The new tender resulted in a set-back for Norrlandsflyg, which lost the Uppsala contract in favor for the competitor Lufttransport Svenska. SE-JUZ was moved to the main base in Gällivare in October 2003, and Norrlandsflyg’s backup helicopter SE-JEZ stayed in Uppsala until Christmas 2003 when Lufttransport's AS365N2 Dauphin (LN-OLL) entered service. Norrlandsflyg carried out 5 222 missions with its Sikorsky S-76A and A++ helicopters from the Uppsala base between the years 1996-2003.
Gällivare and Africa
SE-JUZ replaced the regular EMS helicopter in Gällivare (SE-JUS) for a short while as SE-JUS was in for maintenance. It stayed in Gällivare as a backup aircraft until mid August of 2004, when it was leased to the French company Héli-Union for off-shore activities in Africa for 4 months. It later returned to Gällivare.
Search and Rescue service
As Norrlandsflyg won a new Search and Rescue (SAR) contract for two new bases in mid-2005 the company realized that a backup SAR helicopter was needed in addition to the four SAR helicopters in service throughout Sweden. When the new contract was initiated in the spring of 2006 Norrlandsflyg held SAR bases in Sundsvall, Stockholm Visby and Gothenburg. SE-JUZ was modified for winch operations in the autumn of 2005. It was repainted in Norway in February 2006 and entered backup service in late February of 2006.
The aircraft was used as a backup SAR helicopter between 2006 and late-2009, when it was replaced by SE-HAV and SE-JUY (both as backups). SE-HAV and -JUY had earlier served at the SAR bases in Visby and Sundsvall but those had recently been replaced by two new S-76C++ (SE-JOB and SE-JOJ).
Exported to Germany
SE-JUZ was sold to the German trading company SILAG Handel AG and its subsidiary HeliJet Charter GmbH of Düsseldorf in early-2010. The helicopter was kept in its SAR condition, including the rescue hoist and the red-white livery.
Guinness World Record
On 1 May 2011 this aircraft made history by breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest banner flown by a helicopter measures. The underslung sky banner measured 4,957.43 m² and it was flown over the Nürburgring race track, Nürburg, Germany. The helicopter was operated by Matthias Schlösser (Germany) of Helijet Charter GmbH, and the banner advertised the Württembergische Versicherung insurance company.