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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Finnish army to retire last Mi-8 transports

Mi-8 HipThe Finnish army will retire its last two Mil Mi-8s within the next few months, with use of the replacement NH90 tactical transport helicopter continuing to ramp up.

Assigned to the Utti Jaeger Regiment's helicopter battalion at Utti air base, the army's remaining Mi-8s were introduced into operational use in 1981; eight years after Finland began operating the Soviet-built type.

Although now rarely flown - aircraft HS-11 and HS-13 had amassed roughly 9h in total this year by early May - the Mi-8s still have several hundred flight hours or nearly two years of airframe life remaining.

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