News – Nordic Rotors

First SAR AW139 arrives in Sweden

By on Sep 11, 2013

Yesterday evening the first of the Swedish Maritime Administration’s seven new AgustaWestland AW139s arrived in Sweden. The helicopter, registered SE-JRH and nicknamed “SAR Force One”, landed at Skavs...

Obama’s visit closes Stockholm’s airspace

By on Sep 01, 2013

Due to the official visit of US President Barack Obama to Stockholm on Wednesday and Thursday this week, all of Stockholm’s airspace will be closed. The Swedish Transport Agency (CAA) has issued two t...

Northern Helicopters to open a Gothenburg Base

By on Aug 31, 2013

The flight school Northern Helicopters has just announced that it will open a training facility at Gothenburg City Airport (“Säve) in September. In addition to the new base, the company will expand it...

Helicopter accident in Stockholm

By on Aug 26, 2013

A helicopter was involved in an accident in Lake Flatensjön, south of Stockholm, at 11 AM local time today. Two persons were onboard at the time of the accident, but they escaped with minor injuries....

Helicopter accident in Fällfors

By on Aug 23, 2013

A private vintage helicopter was involved in an accident at a field near the Byeskeälven river northwest of Fällfors, Skellefteå, at midday earlier today. The pilot and his passenger both survived the...

New off-shore EC225 delivered to DanCopter

By on Jul 26, 2013

Eurocopter today delivered a fourth EC225 helicopter to Denmark’s DanCopter A/S – which will operate the rotorcraft for crew change missions to offshore oil and gas platforms in the North Sea. The...

Coptersafety buys AW139 Full Flight Simulator

By on Jul 17, 2013

Coptersafety Ltd is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract for a CAE 3000 Series AW139 full-flight simulator (FFS). The Level D AW139 FFS, to be jointly developed by CAE and AgustaWestland,...

Heliholding acquires Copterflyg

By on Jul 15, 2013

Heliholding AB of Östersund announces that it has acquired the helicopter company Copterflyg AB of Kilafors. The investment has been made in order to strengthen Heliholding’s presence in the European...

Norway focuses in two SAR bidders

By on Jul 09, 2013

The Ministry of Justice and Public Security has informed the four bidders that further negotiations will be held with the two companies AgustaWestland (AW101) and Eurocopter (EC225) for the replacemen...

Rescue Swimmers to cross the Gulf of Finland

By on Jun 30, 2013

In an effort to raise awareness for the deteriorating state of the Baltic Sea, eleven helicopter rescue swimmers will perform a relay swim between Tallinn and Helsinki on 1 July. The swim, which stret...