iscoverThere was the rare sight of three NSW Ambulance Greater Sydney Area HEMS AW139s at the scene of a single motor vehicle accident on April 23 at Wandandian, south of Sussex Inlet on Sydney’s south coast. Two Bankstown Airport-based AW139s and one from the Illawarra Regional Airport landed in a heavy vehicle inspection bay adjacent
Airbus Group Australia Pacific and the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) have commissioned a joint helicopter support centre at Brisbane Airport that will be staffed by a mixture of industry and military personnel. The move is intended as a way of optimising support for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) fleets of ARH Tiger attack helicopters and
This dramatic image taken by Aircrewman David Gardiner shows CareFlight’s rapid response BK117, callsigned ‘CareFlight 4’, shortly after landing on the busy Pennant Hills Road in Sydney’s north-west late in the afternoon on April 18. Police had stopped northbound traffic to allow the BK to land briefly to drop off its medical crew to attend to a
Airbus Group Australia Pacific has delivered its first H145 helicopter to this part of the world. The New Zealand-based customer who accepted delivery of the H145 was replacing its earlier model EC145, Airbus Group Australia Pacific said. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released its final report into a fatal helicopter rescue winching accident where a patient slipped out of a rescue strop device while being winched on board. The tragic accident occurred on August 31 2013 while the rescue crew of Bell 412EP VH-VAS, call signed HEMS 5, was retrieving
Toll Group signed a contract for eight AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters in a ceremony at the Avalon Airshow on Wednesday. Toll will use the aircraft to service its newly-won NSW Air Ambulance contract to operate aeromedical retrieval operations from Sydney’s Bankstown Airport as well as Orange, Wollongong and Canberra. The new helicopters, for NSW’s newly formed Helicopter
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