Helicopter-DataBase
by Thomas Girke
Aircraft History Record
Last Update: 07Dec2021
Aircraft Status
no longer active
Registration / Serial Number
RA-25456
Type
Mi-8MTV-1
Manufacturer
Kazan Helicopters
manufactured
28Feb1991
Construction Number
9 55 96 complete aircraft history
Line Number
055-96
Operator
Naryan-Mar Joint-stock company
Нарьян-Марский ОАО
Operator's Time Line
first noted 2019
Remarks
support of the international polar expedition MOSAiC
(Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate)
Photographer: Mario Hoppmann
Date: 2019
Location: unknown
(Arctica)
Remarks: With the support of the Russian research vessel Akademik Fedorov and the Mi-8 helicopter, a Network of autonomous buoys was installed in a 40-km radius around the MOSAiC expedition on 55 additional ice floes.
URL: https://www.ecomagazine.com
Photographer: Mario Hoppmann
Date: 2019
Location: unknown
(Arctica)
Remarks: The EM-Bird is a helicopter-borne measuring instrument that is based on an electromagnetic (EM) induction process and enables to measure the thickness of sea ice quickly and over a wide area.
URL: https://www.ecomagazine.com
Photographer: Daisy Dunne
Date: 2019
Location: unknown
(Arctica)
Remarks: Scientists take ice thickness measurements in front of the Mi-8 helicopter in the Central Arctic Ocean.
URL: https://directory.eoportal.org
Photographer: Mario Hoppmann
Date: 2019
Location: unknown
(Arctica)
Remarks: With the support of the Russian research vessel Akademik Fedorov and the Mi-8 helicopter, a Network of autonomous buoys was installed in a 40-km radius around the MOSAiC expedition on 55 additional ice floes.
URL: https://directory.eoportal.org
Photographer: Ravenna Koenig
Date: 30Sep2019
Location: unknown
(Arctica)
Remarks: RA-25456 takes off from the research vessel Akademik Federov to survey the thickness of an ice floe.
URL: https://www.nwpb.org