Coat of arms of Nuuk a plain white background, is also used on Nuuk's flag. Coat of arms of Nuuk The coat of arms of Nuuk is a design of mostly blue and white, with a red building in the center known as the "red siminar", the teachers' training college of Nuuk, Greenland, and a yellow paddle floating in the water in front of it. There are three sets of white waves in front of the paddle, and Mt. Sermitsiaq in the background. The coat of arms was designed by Ejner Heilmann and Sven Tito Achmen. The design was copyrighted in 1986. Mt. Sermitsiaq, the
Nuuk Airport flying boat, with the aircraft using the waterways of the Nuuk Port as a landing site. In 1962 a PBY Catalina crashed near the port, killing 15 people on board. The tragedy was one of the factors leading to the decision to invest in a helicopter fleet. The Sikorsky S-61N machines—still in use in 2010—proved to be a more reliable mode of transport for the city, providing exclusive service for the Nuuk city for more than a decade—from the purchase date in 1965 until the late 1970s. Even in the later era of the fixed-wing, turboprop plane domination, the S-61N