SRCA is still flying - just
I have watched the SRCA trying to get EMS projects going for the last 5 years. First one they used a compamy from Turkey with no prior EMS service who crashed a BO 105 in Jeddah and killed a pilot and 2 paramedics. The next one was going OK with Action Aviation running a bunch of EMS helicopters for them and saving many lives on the roads of Saudi. Then the SRCA threw out their own top management who knew what they were doing in EMS and apponted their head of training to run everything despite him having zero prior knowledge of HEMS, then eventually the whole service shut down in 2010 due to unpaid bills by the SRCA. I have heard estimates like 150 companies and staff around the world currently owned money by SRCA and SRCA thinks no one can touch them in Saudi. This includes about 50 doctors who were recruited by SRCA these poor guys quit their jobs around teh world and turned up in Saudi and then SRCA had no money to pay them and SRCA just told them to leave again. Some still don’t have their old jobs back and this situation has ruined some of their lives.
Next the SRCA pulled in ADA to try to restart their EMS. But for financial reasons, they had to put in some less expensive old Bell 412SP's with 20,000 hours and employ some cheaper non-EMS pilots. Result, yes you guessed it, another accident in Dec 2010 outside Riyadh, where an SRCA B412 EMS helicopter landed on the edge of a Saudi road just over a small hill, and when a truck came over the top it went straight into the SRCA helicopter which still had rotors running, but nobody cordoning off the road. I have seen photographs and it was a real big mess with casualties. But this accident seems to have been kept as quiet as possible.
Many of the expat paramedics in Riyadh today are being treated very poorly by the SRCA with promised allowances completely ignored and poor housing. But once you have quit your old job and gone to Saudi you have few choices left and you just try to live with it and hope it all gets better sometime.
To answer the question above, there has been a lot of maintenance downtime of the old B412's and as of November 2011 there is generally just one helicopter operating in Riyadh and one in Jeddah, but yes they are still flying.