Originally Posted by
Torque Split
Interesting question from someone so far away.
Overview - 22 HEMS Charities or Commissioning Ambulance Service.
Depending on whether you include reserve aircraft there are around 43 aircraft dedicated to HEMS/Air Ambulance.
I will include all aircraft types, not just Leonard or SAS aircraft.
Operators involved:-
1. Babcock
2. Specialist Aviation Services
3. Sloane
4. GAMA
5. Heli services International (HSI)
Those Air Ambulances with their own AOC:-
1. Devon Air Ambulance
2. London’s Air Ambulance
3. Yorkshire Air Ambulance
13 x H135
12 x H145
9 x AW169
4 x MD902
2 x AS365
2 x AW109
1 x Bell 429
Air Ambulance Northern Ireland - 1 x H135
Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust. - 1 x AW169, 1 x MD902
Devon Air Ambulance Trust - 1 x H145, 1 x H135
Dorset Air Ambulance. - 1 x AW169
East Anglian Air Ambulance - 2 x H145
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust - 1 x AW169, 1 x MD902
Great North Air Ambulance - 2 x AS365
Great West Air Ambulance - 1 x H135
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance - 1 x H135
Kent Surrey Sussex Air Ambulance - 2 x AW169
Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance. - 1 x AW169
London’s Air Ambulance - 2 x MD902
Magpas - 1 x AW169
Midlands Air Ambulance Charity - 1 x H145, 2 x H135
North West Air Ambulance - 3 x H135
Scotlands Charity Air Ambulance. - 2 x H135
Scottish Ambulance Service. - 2 x H145
The Air Ambulance Service - 2 x AW109
The Children’s Air Ambulance - 2 x AW169 (Inter hospital transfers, not primary HEMS)
Thames Valley Air Ambulance. - 1 x H135
Welsh Air Ambulance Charitable Trust - 3 x H145, 1 x H135
Yorkshire Air Ambulance. - 2 x H145
Not a UK organisation, but there is an Irish Community Air Ambulance, which is a Sloane AW109.
I hope that helps.
Missed Wiltshire off the AOC and name list (but not the aircraft list!). Also, Thames Valley apparently looking to setup with their own AOC based on recent job adverts.