 In September , one of the aircraft was displayed at Farnborough Airshow , and Norsk Forurensningskontroll stated that they hoped to sell the technology abroad . The idea of having an oil spill services of this type was eventually abandoned by the authorities and by the oil industry , and instead NFK started using their aircraft for various charter purposes , such as bird counting for universities and parachuting . In 1986 , the company gained a contract with the French government for supplying a French – Canadian semi @-@ military female expedition , aiming to traverse the polar basin from the northernmost tip of Svalbard to the North Pole on skis . The aircraft was based in Svalbard , and a number of other scientific and exploration expeditions were supported , including electronic mapping of the headrock underneath glaciers , under a contract for the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University , financed by British Petroleum . 
