These walk-around photos were taken at Flygvapenmuseum at Malmen outside Linköping in 2019 and 2022. They show an Agusta-Bell 204B, designated Hkp 3C in Swedish service — the final development standard of the Italian licence-built version of the Bell UH-1 Iroquois, popularly known as the Huey. The Swedish Armed Forces acquired 28 examples from Agusta in the early 1960s, and after engine problems led to a re-engining with the more powerful Bristol Siddeley Gnome H 1200, the further modification of extending the tail boom produced the definitive Hkp 3C standard. The type served in both the Army and Air Force in roles including personnel transport, search and rescue, casualty evacuation and fire-fighting, and was also used for trials with the Bantam anti-tank missile.
This particular helicopter, code 46, was delivered to the Swedish Army at Boden in 1963 and served for nearly four decades before being transferred to the joint Helicopter Wing at Malmen when the Armed Forces consolidated their helicopter resources in 1998. It has a special distinction: it was one of only two Hkp 3Cs to take to the air on 19 May 2001, when the type made its final flight during an air display at Malmen — after which this aircraft was handed over to the museum directly on the flightline. It is displayed at Flygvapenmuseum in its Army camouflage colours, suspended from the ceiling of the main hall.