New Icelandic Coast Guard H225

On 4 May 2021 at around 19:00 hrs (LT), the Landhelgisgæsla Íslands (ICG, Icelandic Coast Guard) newest rescue helicopter landed at Reykjavík Airport.

The ferry flight of the H225 Super Puma, registration TF-GNA (construction number 2918), started on the previous day in Stavanger/Sola (Norway). The helicopter made stops at the Shetland Islands (UK), the Faroe Islands (Denmark) and Egilsstaðir (Iceland) before it finally arrived at its home base in Reykjavík.

The registration TF-GNA refers to Gná, the Goddess-messenger in northern mythology. She can make her way through the fire and through the air, above the earth and the sea, personifying a light wind.

The ICG has now returned to three available rescuse helicopters. All three H255s were modified by Heli-One at Stavanger/Sola (Norway) and are leased from Knut Axel Ugland Holding. The other two, TF-EIR (c/n 2750) and TF-GRO (c/n 2755), were delivered in March and July 2019.

The registrations of the H225s have been used before by the ICG:

TF-EIR Bell 47J-2A (c/n 3305), obtained in 1965 and sold in 1977 as N333TD
TF-GNA HH-52A (c/n 62096), delivered in 1972, crashed 3 October 1975
TF-GNA AS332L1 (c/n 9002), delivered June 2007, lease ended in June 2018, to civil as LN-OPL
TF-GRO H369HS (c/n 105-0773S), delivered April 1976, crash-landed 17 October 1980, repaired and sold as N26444
TF-GRO H369D (c/n 51-0795D), delivery date unknown, sold in January 1986 as D-HISL
TF-GRO AS350B (c/n 1322), delivered March 1986, sold in Jun 1995 as D-HFEM

Photo by Landhelgisgæsla Íslands/Icelandic Coast Guard