Aviation Medical, Rescue, and Firefighting

Air Ambulance Services

• Aero Care International Air Ambulance  24/7 emergency worldwide air ambulance based throughout America.  Medically dedicated Learjet 25s, 35s, and 36s.
• Aero Med Express, Inc.  A 24 hr. Jet Air Ambulance Service serving hospitals, corporations, and individuals throughout North America, South America, and the Caribbean.  Based in Rogers, Arkansas.
• Aero Stat Air Ambulance Company  Providing emergency and routine air ambulance transportation services worldwide.
• Air Ambulance  Bedside-to-bedside critical care emergency air ambulance and medical air evacuation transport.
• Air Ambulance  Information about air ambulance, and links to many air ambulance sites.
• Air Ambulance Emergency Charter Services  Fully accredited to provide worldwide emergency air ambulance transportation service and medical escort assistance to patients in need by medical transport planes or helicopters.
• Air Ambulance Professionals, Inc.  Operating Lear Jets from the southern Florida area to almost anywhere.
• Air Ambulance Service Companies  Air ambulance service companies offer aircraft equipped for air transport of patients, are an integral growing medical service as people around the globe either return for at-home health care or are out seeking the best possible health care locations for their ailments.  This site provides information about this industry, company contact info, history, industry analysis, books, links, and other resources.
• Air Ambulance Services  This web site is aimed to provide a comprehensive aid to those searching to contract air ambulance services or other medical transport services.
• Air Ambulance Specialists, Inc.  AASI offers world wide private fixed wing air ambulance transports, commercial stretcher services, and medical escort services.
• Air Med  Air Taxi, air charter, air cargo, air ambulance and aerial photography based in Oxford UK.
• Air Methods Corporation  An airborne healthcare company, providing emergency transportation and medical services using both a hospital-based (Air Medical Services Division) and a community-based (Mercy Air subsidiary) model of service throughout the United States.  The Company also provides air medical and aerospace products and services to commercial and military customers throughout the world.
• Air One Ambulance  An international air ambulance service for Mexico, US, Canada, Cuba, and the Caribbean.
• Ambustat Air Ambulance  A nationally recognized air ambulance company, specializing in transferring patients within the United States.
• American Jet Air Ambulance  A full service air ambulance provider, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, around the globe.
• Charlie Alpha Air Ambulance, LLC  Air ambulance services.
• DFS - Worldwide Medical Assistance, Inc.  A medical escort service specializing in the transportation of persons needing mild to moderate assistance when traveling long distances.  DFS provides private, personal, and professional door-to-door or bedside-to-bedside assistance to those individuals who wish to travel in comfort with reduced stress and less worries.
• East Anglian Air Ambulance  Details about the charity, the staff, the crew, missions flown, online donations, events, how you can help, lottery membership and results, sponsorship news, recycling, merchandise, job vacancies etc.  Serving the people of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
• ER-Link  A world-wide provider of airborne medical assistance for corporate and commercial aircraft operators in cooperation with the University of Texas Medical Branch and Welch Allyn monitors.  Service is provided 24/7.
• Global Life Flight  A worldwide air ambulance service with several bases of operation in North America and throughout the Caribbean.  Their medical services include ground ambulances, medical escort, bedside to bedside.
• Globalsos.org  Provides responsive, efficient, and cost effective delivery of remote medical assistance and emergency response products and services to the aviation and maritime market.
• HEMS London (Helicoter Emergency Medical Service)  This service operates from the roof of a major London hospital, and provides a first response to medical incidents within the capital.  The helicopter flies with 2 pilots, a paramedic, and a Trauma Doctor.
• Indonesia Air Transport  Specializes in aero medical evacuation and other services for the developing tourism industry to the more remote regions of Indonesia.
• International Air Ambulance Home Page EMS helicopters in the UK: news, subscriptions, links.
• LifeCare Air Ambulance 24 Hrs.  Provides air ambulance service to patients in need of transport within North, Central, South America and the Caribbean.
• LifeFlight Panama  Helicopter emergency medical services for the Republic of Panama.  LifeFlight service is supported by membership subscriptions and a foundation enabling it to fly for humanitarian as well as commercial purposes.  Life flights are also made on behalf of the Hospital del Ninos, as part of an agreement to contribute 5% of the profits from LifeFlight for life saving missions for the children of Panama.
• Lifeline Air Ambulance, Inc.  Provides worldwide emergency and routine air ambulance services.
• London's Air Ambulance  Emergency intensive medical care.  See also their blog.
• Mayoral Executive Jet  Air ambulance and private executive jet charters.  Serving southern Spain to all parts of Europe from Malaga. Morocco, Algiers, Lybia, Melilla.
• Medical Air Escort, Inc.  Air ambulance service, inflight medical travel arrangements with medical accompaniment for the health compromised traveler.
• Medical AirXpress  Aeromedical transportation (complete air ambulance service with besdside to bedside quality), training (equipment and crew training under ICAO and FAA guidelines), and management.  Main base located in Scottsdale Arizona at AirCenter.  24 hour operation, worldwide service, multilingual/multicultural teams.
• Mozambique Emergency Assistance Services, Lda  Maputo Mozambique based paramedic driven aeromedical ambulance and EMS service.
• Sonoma County Sheriff Rescue Helicopter Unit  A comprehensive and informative rescue helicopter site.  Features photos, video, and audio of the Sonoma County Sheriff helicopter and crew in action.
• STAT MedEvac  Ready at the call with worldwide fixed wing medical transport service.  The medical transport is staffed with medical professionals - either certified paramedics, registered nurses, or physicians.  They conduct basic life support, advanced life support, and critical care transport to better serve the patient.
• Trinity Air Ambulance International  Provides 24/7 emergency medical transportation worldwide by fixed wing air ambulance.  Dedicated medical teams are experienced in critical care for all types of transports: newborns, pediatrics, cardiac, trauma, etc.  Also, medical escorts for commercial travel and stretcher flights.
• U.S. Air Ambulance Service  Specializing in medevacs, life flights, medical flights, and air medical transports.
• Volunteer Pilots Association  An all volunteer pilot organization arranging for free air transportation for people needing medical treatment via private aircraft and for the recovery of donor organs for lifesaving transplants.
• Yorkshire Air Ambulance Service Charity  The first dedicated air ambulance to operate in Yorkshire.  Offers a service to both rural and urban communities across the whole of Yorkshire.  Funded by donations.

Aero Medical

• Aero Medical Products  A manufacturer of dedicated and quick change medical interiors for all makes of fixed wing aircraft since 1979.
• Aeromedical Training Institute Aviation physiology training organization.
• Aircrew Health  Health and safety information, health news, education, research, and many other topics.  This site focuses on the needs and interests of the aviation community, and especially those who fly for a living.
• Amber Aviation  Specialist skills in the establishment and operation of both dedicated and "ad hoc" air ambulance services and special events.
• AMEcast - Aviation Medicine Podcast  An aviation medicine podcast with Dr. Bruce Chien, MD, AME., CFI offering advice and insights on Medical Certification.
• Aviation Patient Safety  Hospital patient safety using lessons learned from aviation.  Commercial airlines use crew resource management (CRM) and human factors to train flight crews to work together in the interest of flight safety.  The proposition is these same procedures can be employed by hospitals in the interest of patient safety by reducing medical errors.
• Homepage of Dr Oliver Brock, MD, PhD  An Aeromedical Examiner JAR Class 1+2.  Information about aviation and aviation medicine meant for pilots as well as for doctors interested in aviation medicine: aeromedical classes, how to find the practice.  The author welcomes questions, hints, and comments.
• Alec Buck's EMS Helicopters EMS helicopter photos, clip art, links, guestbook.
• DM AeroSafe Group  Developer of the Eagle, a proposed vertical take-off and landing aerial rescue platform for up to 10 people.
• Environmental Tectonics Corporation Aircrew Training Systems division provides products and services for aeromedical training and research.
• Flight Nursing.Com  A site that provides information for air medical professionals, a mailing list, and a forum to share pictures, stories, quotes, and jokes.
• FlightWeb For air medical professionals.  Air medical links, associations, chat room, classifieds, mailing list archive, resources, white pages.
• Hope Morrow's Trauma Central  Subject index of the Trauma-Related Online Articles pages containing links to hundreds full-text articles related to all kinds of trauma, including aviation disasters.
• The International Aviation Medical Centre  This consultancy provides medical advice on a variety of aviation issues.
• Ken Wiseman, MD-M  A Canadian Minister's Delegate, Maintenance for the issuance of Canadian Certificates of Airworthiness and Canadian Export Airworthiness Certificates in the Victoria, BC area.
• LifePort  Medical patient transport systems for a variety of aircraft.
• Los Medicos Voladores (Flying Doctors) The Los Medicos Voladores was founded in 1974 to provide health services and education to the people of Northern Mexico.  LMV's primary purpose is to send medical teams on 4-day trips to Mexico each month.  Local chapter information, trip info, meeting directions, membership, related links, donations.
• MedAire  Provides integrated medical services and related equipment to the aviation and other industries.  Offerings include global emergency telemedicine, training and train-the-trainer programs, medical kits, defibrillation solutions and more.  Clients include commercial airlines, corporate flight departments, governments, and maritime operators.
• My Flight Surgeon  A Flight Surgeon in Phoenix, Arizona who practices only aviation medicine. Offering pilot focused, medical care encompassing FAA Medical Certification, disease prevention, aviation related health-care advice, and assistance with certification problems.  On-line scheduling is available.
• Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory  Located at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida with a mission to conduct research and development in aviation medicine and allied sciences to enhance the health, safety, and readiness of Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
• Naval Operational Medicine Institute  Emphasis on aeromedical training and services.
• Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc.  Accelerated FAA Medical Certification for pilots and Aviation Medical Examiners (AME's).  Free confidential consultation.  Located near the FAA in Oklahoma City.
• Remote Diagnostic Technologies  RDT Ltd has developed the Tempus 2000, a remote medical monitoring device designed specifically for non-expert use during a medical incident onboard an aircraft.
• Samir Shahin, MD  A Senior FAA Designated Aeromedical Examiner in Los Angeles, California.
• Special Issuance  A service that assists pilots and controllers with the FAA medical Special Issuance process.  A service of My Flight Surgeon.
• Virtual Flight Surgeons, Inc.  Confidential aeromedical certification information and assistance by physicians specializing in aerospace medicine.  Large number of free info pages and links to aviation and aeromedical sites.

Aviation Rescue

• The 210th Rescue Squadron  The mission of the Squadron is to organize, train, and equip a combat ready unit to provide and sustain combat search and rescue operations in the Alaskan Theater or other locations.
• Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Working Group (ARFFWG) A non-profit international organization dedicated to the sharing of Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting information between airport firefighters, municipal fire departments, and all others concerned with aircraft fire fighting.
• Aviation Search And Rescue  AVSAR is a service which enhances the search and rescue capabilities of police, fire departments, and search & rescue teams using ultralight aircraft.  Based in Western North Carolina.
• SARworld  For SAR helicopter operators, written by SAR helicopter operators.  This is a site for those people who use helicopters to save lives.  Use the numerous links to stay up-to-date with what's really happening out there.
• Search and Rescue Belgium  Site devoted to the Sea King helicopters of the 40th Squadron which provide help in emergencies.
• United States Air Force Rescue Coordination Center  The AFRCC is the single point of contact for the coordination of federal resources involved in search and rescue (SAR) missions in all 48 Continental United States.
• Westpac LifeSaver Rescue Helicopter Service Southern Region  Rescue and medical retrieval services for Sydney and the Southern Region of New South Wales, Australia with two BK117 B2 helicopters operating, one from Sydney and one from the Wollongong.

Aerial Firefighting

• Aerial Fire Fighting  A short history of aerial fire fighting on Sappi Forests (Pty) Ltd plantations in Southern Africa as undertaken by Orsmond Aerial Spray (Pty) Ltd.
• Aerial Firefighting Industry Association AFIA is a non-profit trade association that promotes the interests of companies engaged in forest and wildland firefighting.
• Aero Union Corporation  The largest aerial fire fighting contractor in the United States.
• Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting Working Group (ARFFWG) A non-profit international organization dedicated to the sharing of Aircraft Rescue & Fire Fighting information between airport firefighters, municipal fire departments, and all others concerned with aircraft fire fighting.
• Airline Fire Information Page  Information about firefighting at Canadian airports.
• Airport Fire Department  All about airport fire fighting.
• Airspray Home Page Canadian aerial forest fire suppression company operating 35 aircraft in British Columbia, Alberta and the Yukon Territory.
• ARFF.info  The official forum of the ARFF Working Group, and an Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting information resource.  This forum is quite active, with sections for general ARFF discussions, apparatus and equipment, ARFF training issues, airport alerts, military ARFF, employment opportunities, and a forum for Latin American airport fire fighters.
• Associated Airtanker Pilots  Airtanker info and specs, pilot qualifications, membership list, airtanker contractor contact list, photo gallery, fire terminology, merchandise for sale.
• Aviation Fire Journal  An on-line magazine dedicated to aircraft fire fighting and airport fire protection for the airport and municipal fire fighter.
• Coulson Aircrane  Heli-logging and aerial fire fighting services.
• Fire and Aviation Management  The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management part of the USDA Forest Service works to advance technologies in fire management and suppression.
• Hawkins & Powers Aviation, Inc.  Integrated fire retardant enhancement systems.
• International Air Response, Inc.  An Arizona based company with specially designed DC-7s and C-130 aircraft.
• International Aviation Fire Protection Association  The IAFPA is a non-profit association whose mission is to promote better international understanding of issues and concerns related to aircraft rescue and fire fighting, airport facilities fire protection and aircraft passenger fire safety.
• International Aviation Fire & Rescue Information Aviation fire references, air crash rescue news, message board, events calendar, links to other aviation fire and rescue sites.
• Neptune, Inc. Aerial fire suppression services.
• Superior Helicopter LLC  Wildland firefighting crews.
• Wildfire - Aerial Fire Fighting  Links to aerial fire fighting sites.

Aviation Medical and Rescue Blogs

• London's Air Ambulance Blog  An emergency intensive medical care blog.
• Stories of a Medevac Pilot  The well-written and interesting stories in this blog are just ones from Dagny's travels over the years as a medevac pilot.  Be sure to add this one to your list and follow her adventures.