Aye all,
I Looked also for a job a few years ago with Aerotech the german company operating those MI 14s
The MI 14 was type certified ( civilian) in Ukraine in a restricted category and those MI 14 have been operated sucessfully by Aerotech in Spain and in Portugal circa 95-98
At least two of those MI 14 was exported to the U.S - see Helicopter World magazine of October 96
For TEC PILOT // Sao Tome & Principe 's Civil Aviation airworthiness department are sub-contracted to VERITAS
http://www.bureauveritas.com/homepage_frameset.html
The same VERITAS provide airworthiness follow up on behalf of Civil Aviation offices with most of the French spoken countries including France and Luxembourg
You will for sure not get any "complaisance" from them, nor from Civil Aviation of Spain and Portugal who accepted those MI 14 to operate in their juridictions.
even if demilitarized those helicopters wasn't any sort of junks but all the contrary
Some older CH 53s are now converted by HEAVY LIFT USA for fire fighting in the U.S.
By the way the very first operator of Russian helicopters in USA was PHI of Lafayette USA, whom imported and registered one MI 10 Russian skycrane "Harke " and one MI 8 back in the mid-sixties -
http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/mi-10-r.html
Apparently the PHI 's MI 10 ended his life in Central America few decades later
cheers - Juan
