Earlier this week, Simple Flying was part of a media trip to Copenhagen surrounding the announcement of Nordic Seaplanes' MoU deal with Elfly regarding the purchase of up to 15 electric 'Noemi' aircraft. While these zero-emissions planes represent the future for the Danish airline , their arrival isn't expected until 2030. With this in mind, when it comes to the here and now (and indeed the next few years) at Nordic Seaplanes, the carrier will look to the de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 'Twin Otter' to operate its flights.
Its scheduled services connect Copenhagen with Aarhus, but, as these operate at the start and end of the day to suit business travelers, Nordic Seaplanes also operates sightseeing flights in between. By the numbers As pictured below, our sightseeing flight was operated by a Twin Otter aptly registered as 9H-OCEAN. According to present fleet data made available by ch-aviation , Nordic Seaplanes is operating this aircraft on a wet lease basis from Nordic Sky (Malta), hence the '9H' registration prefix.
The aircraft has 16 seats onboard in a three-abreast (2-1) configuration, and is over 46 years old, having first flown in 1978. A quick look at the Nordic Seaplanes website shows that it typically operates two of these flights a day in Copenhagen, departing at 12:30 and 13:30 local time, with the experience lasting around 30 minutes. Additionally, sightseeing flights are available from its main base in Aarhus on certain Saturdays.
Tickets cost 797 DKK (€110 or .