For over 10 years, the NHS has been involved in researching and planning a national air transfer service. SkyAngels Air Ambulance charity is the result.
SkyAngels believes that our NHS should only have the best
Best people ( all our medical crews are NHS, flying in their spare time )
Best equipment, our UK air ambulance units now have some of the best helicopters in the world
However, in longer range missions and the transfer of patients from any of the 4 countries making up the UK, this has been left to road ambulance units and hence patients spending hours in road ambulances.
As you must be aware our UK road network is under stress, flying patients is the quickest way. Our last UK mission took 45mins by air, the road journey would make taken 4-5 hours.
SkyAngels is giving the NHS flight options with a number of different aircraft types to match the missions required, to save time and hence lives.
The two Learjet 60 aircraft we require to complete our charity remit are the wide bodied versions of the 1960 Learjets, which were originally designed as a fighter aircraft.
Hence the top speed, time is everything in our emergency world.
Thank you so much for rescuing our 91 year old mother from Bulgaria. ” Wings ” was fantastic and even stopped the hospital from operating on her without the correct medication. Big thank you to Wizzair and SkyAngels for bringing mum home. And “Polo” even meet us at the airport back in the UK
Our son had a skiing accident in France. The SkyAngels flight team at Norwich Airport kept us calm and informed. They offered 3 options to bring him home when suddenly the French authorites decided to place our son onto an airline and fly him back to the UK without notifying us until he was on the plane! And without a medical escort. Either our family nor SkyAngels were happy that they took this course of action. It ended well in the end but we would have preferred SkyAngels to repatriate him. Donation sent, thank you again!
My daughter was not looking forward to the 6 hour taxi trip from south London to Manchester after her operation. SkyAngels meet my daughter from the London hospital and flew her home to us. I think including the road ambulance to London City and the flight it took just 1 hour. Just fantastic, SkyAngels kept us informed all the way and with their GPS flight tracking I was able to watch the flight all the way! A big thank you…
Meet our crews in our airside lounge:-
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