Helidata has twice run stories on the proposed Avon air ambulance.....it was last due to launch in May,based at Filton but there are funding issues and an argument with the Wilts members who resent efforts to take money raised for their air ambulance to fund the new one.
Helidata also confirmed that an independent fund raiser based in Northants was employed to seek sponsorship but doesn't appear to have been very succesful.
I am not aware that the contract has moved from Sloane to BAS...seems odd given that the Bo105s are going out of service.The last I heard it was still an A109.