HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin Season 1 logo

TV-Series (1998-2001)

Starring:
Christoph M. Ohrt (Karl 'Charly' von Schumann)
Matthias Matz (Stephan Rubelli)
Peter Simonischek (Hagen Dahlberg)
Doreen Jacobi (Jenny Harland )

What happens when you mix Alarm für Cobra 11 with Viper? This tv series happens. A high-tech helicopter with rockets, stealth-mode and other cool stuff is used by a special task force of Berlin police to fight against criminals.

Note: This TV series uses CGI several times. Aircraft portrayed in this production may not be entirely accurate or represent an actual aircraft, however, where a reasonable depiction of an actual aircraft has been created, it has been identified as best as possible and is noted as CGI.

Eurocopter EC135

Registration D-HECY c/n 0002
This is the second prototype of the EC135 on loan from Eurocopter Germany (today Airbus Helicopters). It was often flown by company pilots. In most scenes its just CGI especially when it flies low through Berlin city. The helicopter base was Tempelhof Airport (now closed). Its nicknamed "AK1" in HeliCops.

Reg.D-HECY Eurocopter EC135 of Eurocopter Germany.

It was fitted with extras. Silent mode:

Reg.D-HECY Eurocopter EC135 of Eurocopter Germany (CGI modified)

Rockets - here you see only one rocket because the rest was already fired

Reg.D-HECY Eurocopter EC135 of Eurocopter Germany.

EMP cannon

Reg.D-HECY Eurocopter EC135 of Eurocopter Germany hits a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27 (CGI).

Season 1

Fairchild-Swearingen SA-227AC Metro III

Episode 1.01 Babels Untergang
This scene was filmed at Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof. Older ROA livery, with OLT on the tail fin (merge with).

Fairchild-Swearingen SA-227AC Metro III of ROA-Roland Air/OLT.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27

Episode 1.02 Operation Brainstorm
Ex-South African Soldier Markus bought two MiG-27 from soviet army. He tries to convince the AK1 to land the helicopter immediately or his pilots will shoot them down. However evasive maneuvers and a shot with the EMP-Gun clears off the Danger.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27 (CGI).

Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Episode 1.02 Operation Brainstorm
This is an United States Army Chinook because in 1998 only the USA had Chinooks stationed in Germany. German Bundeswehr uses Sikorsky instead.

Boeing CH-47 Chinook of United States Army.

Bell 206B-3 JetRanger III

Episode 1.02 Operation Brainstorm
Registration D-HWLL, c/n 2359.

Reg.D-HWLL Bell 206B-3 JetRanger III.

Episode 1.11 "Der Euro Raub"
Used to escape with the stolen 200 Euro bank notes.

Bell 206

Mil Mi-8T Hip-C

Episode 1.05 Sturzflug
Registration D-HOXP, c/n 105 102. (former DDR-SPP)
A group of base jumpers use this Helicopter to jump. It started its life as Interflug machine DDR-SPP and after the unification of Germany went to the "Berliner Spezialflug AG" where it was designated as D-HOXP in 1991.

Reg.D-HOXP Mil Mi-8T Hip-C of Berliner Spezialflug AG.

Ilyushin Il-62

Episode 1.07 Todesflug IL 888
Flight IL 888 is hijacked while on ground in Berlin. The plane lifts off with the hijacking been unnoticed. After the criminals demand that their friend Karl Mendl is released from prison, they are circling over Berlin. When the police releases their criminal friend, the hijackers jump out of the plane and parachute to the ground. Karl Schumann manages to take over the flight controls and land the plane safely on a plain ground.
They used the fictional company name Holiday Airlines and in every exterior shot the plane is CGI except for the landing scene (see entry below). The paint scheme is similar to what Interflug had in use.

Ilyushin Il-62 of Holiday Airlines (CGI).

Ilyushin Il-62.

Registration DDR-SEG, c/n 31403.
For interior shots of Flight IL 888 a real plane was used. It is DDR-SEG parked at Airfield Stölln/Rhinow. DDR-SEG is the legendary plane that landed on a 900 meter grass runway on 23 October 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EP2fgosJ0A

Reg. DDR-SEG Ilyushin Il-62 of Interflug.

Tupolev Tu-134 & Tupolev Tu-154M

Episode 1.07 Todesflug IL 888
At left, a Tupolev Tu-134 with one Tupolev Tu-154M in the middle.

Tupolev Tu-134 of Pulkovo Airlines and Tupolev Tu-154M of Aeroflot.

Fokker 50

Episode 1.07 Todesflug IL 888
Registration OY-KAG, c/n 20185.
Seen in background at Tempelhof Airport.

Reg. OY-KAG Fokker 50 of SAS Eurolink.

ATR 72-201 & British Aerospace BAe 146-300

Episode 1.13 Faule Eier
At Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof, from left to right: ATR 72 of Air Contractors, Eurowings, and BAe 14 of Eurowings.

ATR 72-201 of Air Contractors, Eurowings and British Aerospace BAe 146-300 of Eurowings.

Season 2

Bell 206L LongRanger III

Episode 2.03 Das Jahr des Drachen (Dragon Year)
Registration D-HWPP c/n 51480
Real registration but fake paint scheme. There is no "Berliner Rettungsflug" but a real company with the name "Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht" (DRF) exists, which had exactly the same paint scheme: See Photo here.