HKP 9 - Messerschmitt Bölkow-Blom (MBB) BO 105 CBS (1985-    )

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Helicopter Sweden
  HKP 9B code 93 of Air Force Wing F 6 (Karlsborg). Photo by Hans Wallin at Västerås 1987-09-12  
 
Four HKP 9B were delivered to the Air Force in 1985 as air rescue helicopters and also for civil ambulance transports. They got the Swedish Air Force Numbers 09071 to 09074. They replaced the aging HKP 2 (Sud Aviation Alouette II).

HKP 9B  had a lengthened cabin (25 cm), which made it possible to accommodate two stretchers. The helicopter carried no arms. A salvage winch was mounted the outside of the fuselage.

Two were based at Air Force Wing F 6 at Karlsborg and two at F 7 at Såtenäs. On the 12th November 1991, HKP 9B code 94 of F 6 at Karlsborg crashed at a take-off from the care centre at Töreboda. The reason for the accident was a malfunction of the tail rotor. The three persons aboard survived without any serious injuries, but the helicopter was totally destroyed.
 

 
 
 
 

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