Tag: Air ambulance

PAL Aerospace Awarded Contract for Continued Provision of Air Ambulance Services in Nova Scotia

PAL Aerospace has announced that they have been awarded a contract for the continued provision of air ambulance services for the Province of Nova Scotia. A part of the largest air ambulance service provider in Canada through the Exchange Income Corporation (EIC) family of companies, PAL Aerospac...

STC for the EpiShuttle on aircraft type CL-600 obtained by FAI

FAI has obtained supplementary type certification (STC) for the EpiShuttle on the aircraft type CL-600 after undergoing comprehensive tests on flammability, rapid decompression, and patient evacuation. The test was passed without any complaints or remarks. Since FAI has installed the EpiShuttle ...

FAI awarded Air Ambulance Company of the Year for record third time

FAI rent-a-jet GmbH’s Air Ambulance Division has been awarded the 2021 International Travel & Health Insurance Journal´s (ITIJ) Air Ambulance Company of the Year.  This marks the second successive win for FAI and its third win overall, making it the only company to have ever achieve...

FAI dedicates Global Express to ultra-long-range air ambulance operations

FAI rent-a-jet GmbH, Germany’s leading Special Mission Operator, has configured one of its seven Global Express aircraft (D-AFAM) as a dedicated air ambulance. The move follows increasing demand from the market for ultra-long-range air ambulance missions.   FAI has completed 10 ultra-long...

FAI wins Pandemic Response Special Award at Middle East Annual Achievement Awards

Germany‘s Air Ambulance Specialist and Special Mission Operator FAI rent-a-jet AG has been honoured with the Pandemic Response Special Award at the 2021 Aviation Annual Achievement Awards in Dubai. ...

Chorus Aviation Subsidiary Wins New Brunswick Air Ambulance Contract

Chorus Aviation Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Voyageur Aviation Corp., has been awarded a contract for the provision of fixed-wing air ambulance service for Ambulance New Brunswick. The contract is for a five-year term, with option to extend for an additional five years. Voyageur curr...

Massive demand for FAI Air Ambulance’s corona transport

FAIs air ambulance division has been operating at maximum capacity to meet the high number of requests for repatriation and medevac flights. Since March FAI has performed almost 70 flights of covid-19 patients in 47 countries with the single patient isolation and transport system EpiShuttle. ...

FAI named finalist in Air Ambulance Company of Year awards

The Air Ambulance Division of German Special Mission Operator FAI rent-a-jet AG has once again been nominated as one of three finalists in the 2020 International Travel & Health Insurance Journal´s (ITIJ) Industry Awards – Air Ambulance Company of the Year category. This is the 18th annual I...

FAI nominated as finalist in Air Ambulance Company of Year Award

The Air Ambulance division of German Special Mission Operator FAI rent-a-jet AG has been named as one of three finalists in the 2019 International Travel & Health Insurance Journal's (ITIJ) industry awards - Air Ambulance Company of the Year category. This is the 17th annual ITIJ Awards and mar...

Airbus Helicopters signs H135 contract with Romanian government

Airbus Helicopters has signed a contract with the Romanian Ministry of Interior for the sale of three H135 helicopters for air medical services and search and rescue purposes. The four-year framework agreement, signed at the end of July 2019, also foresees the procurement of up to ten H135s in t...

AirMed International adds Nextant 400XTi to San Antonio fleet

Fee for service air ambulance airline AirMed International has announced the addition of a Nextant 400XTi medical jet to its fleet in San Antonio. The aircraft, a modified Beechjet 400, will provide medical flights to patients requiring emergency and non-emergency care, as well as providing tran...

Pilatus hands over first ever PC-24 air ambulance

The very first PC-24 with medevac interior has been handed over to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS Western Operations). Pilatus presented the key to PC-24 serial number 105 to RFDS CEO Rebecca Tomkinson on 26 November 2018 in Stans. Rebecca Tomkinson commented at the handove...

Bombardier delivers another Challenger 650 to Swiss Air Rescue team

Bombardier recently delivered another Challenger 650 aircraft converted into an air ambulance to longstanding customer Swiss Air-Rescue Rega. The Swiss air ambulance service will soon take possession of a third Challenger 650 aircraft, completing the replacement of its earlier-generation Challenger ...

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