Why not operating an russian helicopter?

[tecpilot]

The "Helitankers" (page 1 of this thread) were registered in Sao Tome (S9). All of the Mi-14 were some years old ex military and nearly without civ papers and history books. But be sure, somewhere in this world it's possible to find a little ICAO country providing the crew and the ship with the necessary papers. And no sweet, they are not interested to look at ship and crew

But the idea to convert the ships was great! Really powerful water bombers. I'm not sure if the Mi-14 is at least in Russia civ certified But may be someone will convert one day the first SeaStallion to a Sao Tome civ Firefighter