Fixed-Wing Air Ambulance

FlightAware General
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Is there anyway to filter Lifeguard flight’s by airport. For example: a way that you could see AUS has X amount of air ambulance flights per month?

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You can see a list of all current lifeguard flights here. If you’re interested in historical lifeguard activity in certain areas, contact us about a custom report.

3

That’s interesting…not that I would pay for it, but it would be fun to see what, say, Rochester, Minnesota would have for that activity for a month or more…

4

You made me curious, so the top airport in the country for lifeguard flights is… KSLC.

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Hmmmmph…that is interesting…I’ll have to watch them for a while…don’t know what makes them special…TC

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KSLC is the top airport in the country for lifeguard flights based on what time frame? Day, Month to Date, Year to Date???

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I can think of a few *possibilities *why:

  • largest city for many miles around

  • the Mormons take care of their own so lots of flights from Utah and surrounding territory to the major Mormon medical center

  • Lots of winter sports related injuries

THESE ARE ALL GUESSES so don’t raz me, eh

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The last week.

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That is because the largest Air Ambulance company in the nation is based on SLC.
They also own Guardian flight in AK.

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Which is who?

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Waiting for my buddy to text me back. He works for them

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Just wondering who’s the best.

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KSLC is home to IHC, Intermountain Health Care. A large regional Hospital chain. They operate their own aircraft, 4 King Air’s, 3 Augusta 109s, and at least 1 Bell 407.

The University of Utah Hospital also has 2 PC-12s and 3 various Bell Helicopters that are run under contract by Air Methods.

They both serve a geographically large area and the Hospitals have renowned burn, cardiac & pediatric care. Geography acounts for the large number of flights. Agriculture, Oil & Gas, and road accidents (50-80 miles between everything) gets people hurt.

I believe that Denver based, Air Methods is the largest Air Medical operator in the country. This happened about 4-5 years ago when they purchased/absorbed Provo, UT based Rocky Mtn Helicopters.

PHI would be 2nd largest Air medical operator in US.

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No boys Goose is spelled with two O’s

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I’m not sure your info is accurate. Are you including all flights that are AA coming from out of the country? we get on average 2 AA flights a day in FLL and MIA as well as FXE.

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I’m counting everyone using a lifeguard prefix and SLC is seeing more than 2/day (I don’t recall the exact figure).

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thanks- sorry for being a doubting thomas