Polizei, Rettungsdienste und Feuerlöschflugzeuge und -Hubschrauber sind für uns von großem Interesse. Weltweit gibt es spezialisierte Luftfahrzeuge, extra für den Zweck entwickelt oder nachträglich umgebaut. Dadurch hat das Thema eine große Vielfalt - und sehr engagierte Crews und Mannschaften.
Police, rescue and firefighting aircraft and helicopters are of special interest for us. there exists a signficant diversity of aircraft worldwide, solely developed for this purpose or refurbished and modified as a second life. Thus the topic has a huge variety - and highly engaged crews and teams.
December 2022: The Ventura County Sherriffs homebased at Camarillo Airport, are currently upgrading from Huey to Firehawk.
By Florian Szczepanek
December 2022: The new CalFire Lockheed C-130 Hercules Airtanker at Sacramento McClellan.
By Tom Ziegler
February 2022: Santa Maria Fire Tanker Base plays an important role fopr firefighting in California.
By Florian Szczepanek and Tom Ziegler
January 2022: CAL Fire Vina Helitack is one of the first stations equipped with the new Firehawk helicopter.
By Florian Szczepanek & Tom Ziegler
December 2021: Upgrade for Gallus 1 in Vorarlberg - now operating with an Airbus Helicopters H135 T3 provided by Wucher Helicopter GmbH.
By Tom Ziegler
August 2021: The Fire Attack Base Hemet in California is a CalFire base at Californias Riverside County airport.
By Alexander Schwarz
October 2020: Every year, the German Police Helicopter Training concludes with a mountain training exercise.
By Tom Ziegler
August 2020: The Bundespolizei and Lifeguard performed a river rescue exercise on the Danube.
By Tom Ziegler
Augsut 2020: South Tyrol and its fantastic mountain enviornment is home to several rescue helicopters.
By Alexander Nieder
March 2020: The Securite Civile ran their biggest firebomber base some years ago from Marignane, the airport of Marseille.
By Florian Szczepanek and Tom Ziegler
March 2020: This report reviews the history and current situation of the two rescue helicopters stationed in Munich.
By Alex Nieder and Tom Ziegler
October 2019: The helicopter pilots of the German police have to attend regularly a training on mountain flying and rescue. This report reviews the 39th course.
By Tom Ziegler
September 2019: Several assets in operation with greek firefighters attended or even demonstrated during the Athens Flying Week 2019.
By Florian Szczepanek
July 2019: The HM Coastguard attended RIAT with two helicopters and one aircraft. We were invited to an extensive visit of the two helicopters and got details on missions and equipment.
By Florian Szczepanek and Alex Nieder
January 2019: Retirement photo shoot in the night - a remarkable event to commemorate the end of service for the Belgian Sea Kings.
By Florian Szczepanek
October 2018: During the US trip in 2018 we witnessed the fire on Stukel mountain, close to Klamath Falls, and could see fire fighting aircraft and helicopters in operation.
By Alexander Schwarz
October 2018: Firefighting in California is a very important and fairly large operation. This report looks on various aircrafts in use by the different public and prvate operators.
By Florian Szczepanek
October 2018: The Skycrane is a former military transport helicopter, now solely in use for firefighting and considered as one of the most useful assets in that mission.
By Florian Szczepanek
October 2018: The fire attack station at Sonoma is home to CAL Fire and subcontracted services. During our visit we received in addition details on the pilot training of CAL Fire.
By Florian Szczepanek
October 2018: Firefighting in California is an operation involving several services and subconctracted companies - this report looks on the assets deplyoed at Redding in 2018.
By Florian Szczepanek
Juni 2018: Firefighting in the mountainous area where Germany, Austria and Czech Republic share common boarders needs to be trained - this reports looks on a common exercise between the firefighting services of the three countries.
By Florian Szczepanek and Tom Ziegler
May 2016: This report covers a fire fighting exercise between civil firefighters and the German Army helicopters.
By Tom Ziegler
March 2016: The United States Coastguard is uniformed service, securing the borders but at the same time rescueing peoplen in distress on the oceans (SAR). This report covers the aircrafts at Sacramento and its missions.
By Alexander Schwarz and Tom Ziegler
March 2016: A visit with the LA County Sherrifs and their helicopters above the city and the surrounding mountains.
By Alexander Schwarz and Tom Ziegler
November 2011: Due to a forest fire at Sylvenstein resvoir, many helicopters from various operators where on firefighting duty.
By Tom Ziegler