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Toll, owned by Japan Post, already operates helicopter air ambulance services for NSW and the ACT, with the confirmation of the previously-rumoured acquisition adding NSW and Victoria’s fixed-wing services to its stable.
According to anonymous sources cited in The Australian Financial Review, the company – owned by Japan Post – is expected to sign a deal in coming days after reaching an agreement on terms.
AMSL Aero will work with aeromedical organisation Life Flight New Zealand to support future use of its Vertiia electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in the country.
The Leonardo AW139 helicopters are set to replace two existing B412 aircraft, and will operate from Babcock’s Horn Island base by the end of the year.
Dubbed the Clive Berghofer Maintenance Centre, the 5,000-square-metre facility is the largest maintenance base in LifeFlight’s network and the largest hangar at Archerfield, replacing the old LifeFlight maintenance centre built in the 1940s.
The not-for-profit’s helicopters and jets assisted 8,177 people in FY24, up 11.2 per cent on the previous year. LifeFlight helicopters chalked up 5,159 total flying hours, an increase of 25 per cent, across 3,378 total rotary-wing missions.
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