Bond Offshore industries Eurocopter AS332L2 Super Puma Helibus, Aberdeen Dyce Airport. SCO 9368.
he AS332 L1e is a twin engine medium-weight civil helicopter equipped with a « new avionics » glass cockpit. Its operational characteristics and its large cabin explain its success particularly for passenger transport. The extensive power reserve, its safety level, and comfort make the SUPER PUMA AS332 L1e an aircraft perfectly suited for offshore or other civil Super Puma has proved especially well-suited to the North Sea oil industry, where it is used to ferry personnel and equipment to and from oil platforms. One of the biggest civil operators of the type is Bristow Helicopters, who have a fleet of at least 30 Super Pumas. By 2005, various models of Super Puma have been operated by 38 different nations for a wide variety of purposes; a total of 565 Super Pumas (including military-orientated Cougars) had been delivered or were on order at this point as well. The success of the AS 332 Super Puma led to the pursuit of extended development programs to produce further advanced models; features included lengthened rotor blades, more powerful engines and gearboxes, increases in takeoff weight, and modernised avionics. A wide variety of specialised Super Puma variants followed the basic transport model into use, including dedicated Search and rescue (SAR) and Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) versions. Military Super Pumas have been marketed as the AS532 Cougar since 1990. As a fallback option to the NHIndustries NH90, a Mark III Super Puma was also considered for development
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Location: Aberdeen Dyce Airport, Grampian Region. Scotland. UK.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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