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Aircraft reference

S-454

Cougar AS.532 U2 · Royal Netherlands Air Force

Helicopter bombersNetherlands
Photograph of S-454

Gerard van der Schaaf · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Identity

Mission
Helicopter bombers
Registration
S-454
Mode-S address
48080D
ICAO type
AS3B
Model
Cougar AS.532 U2
Manufacturer
Eurocopter
Operator
Royal Netherlands Air Force
Country of registration
Netherlands
Home base
Gilze-Rijen · Netherlands

Cougar with a 2,500 l bucket; also flies transport and rescue.

About the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma

Water-bombing helicopter

It uses a suspended bucket or an installed tank to take water from a nearby source and place short, precise drops, including in steep or confined terrain. Depending on its configuration, it may also move crews, equipment, or rescue teams.

What this type can do

The Super Puma Mk2 or Cougar is a powerful twin-engine heavy helicopter. A large bucket gives it sustained water-dropping capacity, while its lift and cabin let it transport crews, cargo, or rescue teams between assignments.

This describes the type’s usual firefighting capability; it does not prove what this aircraft is carrying or doing now.

Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma

The Airbus Helicopters H215 is a four-bladed, twin-engined, medium-sized, utility helicopter developed and initially produced by French aerospace company Aérospatiale. It has been subsequently manufactured by the successor companies Eurocopter and Airbus Helicopters. The Super Puma is a re-engined and larger version of the original Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma. The military version is the Airbus Helicopters H215M, previously known as the Eurocopter AS532 Cougar.

ICAO type · AS3B

Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Flight history

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Photographs

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    Alf van Beem · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    simon butler from halesowen, uk · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

  • Photograph of the aircraft

    Werner Verbogt · All rights reserved · Planespotters.net

Elsewhere

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  • FlightAwareRegistration record and recent activity.

Photography

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  • Wikimedia CommonsFreely licensed images — the ones this sheet is allowed to host.

Registries & airframe records

  • Airframes.orgAirframe history: serial number, operators, incidents.
  • adsbdbOpen registration database, in JSON.
  • hexdb.ioMode-S address record used by the tracking community, in JSON.

Type reference

  • ICAO type AS3BICAO Doc 8643 entry: designator, wake category, engines.
Reference data assembled on July 27, 2026 from adsbdb, hexdb.io, Wikimedia Commons, Planespotters. Run pnpm fetch:aircraft --refresh to rebuild it.