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Aircraft:09415 (93)Photo date:Type:8 Aug, 1992Operator:Photo views:Location:2260Photo by:A local Air Force rescue helicopter is seen during an air display at the Kungsängen Airshow 1992. This helicopter was assigned to the F6 Karlsborg base at the time, but it was most likely stationed at the F13 Bråvalla base.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/09415/4870
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Aircraft:09415 (G-93)Photo date:Type:25 Aug, 1990Operator:Photo views:Location:2419Photo by:Taking off from F7 Såtenäs Air Force base during the military station's 50-year anniversary. Note the nine 'Saab 37 Viggen' fighters in the background.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/09415/5355
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Aircraft:09415 (G-93)Photo date:Type:8 May, 1988Operator:Photo views:Location:1251Photo by:The local rescue helicopter G-93 is seen in alert during an air show at the F7 Air Force Base in Såtenäs, Lidköping.Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/09415/1123
09415
Information about 09415
Aircraft Data
Reg: 09415
S/N: S-0731
Year: 1985
Type:
Last known operator:
History:
D-HDRS
Fate:
D-HECB, OH-HKI
The new local rescue helicopters were based next to the two big Swedish lakes Vänern and Vättern. Two helicopters (09413 and 09414) were stationed at the F6 Karlsborg Air Force Base and the other two (09415 and 09416) were initially stationed at the F7 Såtenäs Air Force Base.
The HKP 9B (not to be confused with the Army's 21 CB-3 models, the HKP 9A) had a standard crew of three - one pilot, one navigator/hoist operator and one conscript rescue swimmer. The helicopters featured one external rescue hoist, homing equipment and the (limited) space to carry up to two litters.
One of F7 Såtenäs’ HKP 9Bs was transferred to the F13 Bråvalla Air Force Base in Norrköping in mid-1991. The base had a HKP 9B until 1994.
On 14 November 1991 a HKP 9Bs belonging to F6 Karlsborg (09413) crashed on take-off from Töreboda due to a tail rotor mishap. The three occupants survived, but the wreck had to be salvaged by an Air Force Boeing-Vertol 107 (04456).
The three remaining HKP 9Bs were eventually assigned to F6 Karlsborg, but one remained stationed at the F13 base.
As both the F6 Karlsborg base and the F13 Bråvalla base was closed in 1994 it was decided that the three remaining HKP 9Bs were to leave the FRÄD system. They were retired in May 1994.
The helicopters were returned to MBB (which had become Eurocopter Deutschland), where they were refurbished and sold to new costumers. Two of them were actually purchased by the Finnish company Copterline and utilized as EMS helicopters (reg. OH-HKI and OH-HMS).