NH90 Hkp 14 (Sweden)
Sweden's 'high cabin' NH90 — 24 cm more headroom for medevac and safe working · Ordered 2001 · In service 2011
Sweden ordered 18 NH90s in 2001 as the High Cabin Variant, designated Hkp 14. Its cabin is 24 cm taller than standard — 1.82 m instead of 1.57 m — to meet Swedish work-safety rules and make air-ambulance work easier. The fleet was meant to be complete by 2008, but the first helicopters only arrived in 2011, in an initial operational configuration.
The first anti-submarine Hkp 14F was handed over in December 2015, and four Hkp 14Es were later converted to the maritime standard, giving nine of each. The final Hkp 14E was delivered in December 2023 and the last Hkp 14F a year later.
In 2022 Sweden announced that it would replace the type with Black Hawk-family helicopters; reports in 2026 said the land Hkp 14E would go first, while the maritime Hkp 14F stays until a naval replacement is bought.
