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Our Helicopters

Discover all about our helicopters and how they help us get patients the treatment they need and provide the rapid speed needed to help save lives on a daily basis.

WNDLR Air Ambulance
Children's Air Ambulance

Your Local Air Ambulance Helicopters

The local air ambulance service gives people the very best chance of survival and recovery. Our helicopter can fly at top speeds of 185mph and carries the very latest lifesaving equipment necessary for the missions we attend.

Our operations team is supported by Critical Care Cars, which provide valuable backup for incidents close to the helicopter base, when the weather makes it too dangerous to fly. They also enable our doctors and critical care paramedics to run a night car service to reach those in need 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

About G-DRLA & G-WNAS

Top speed: 180 - 185 mph
Model: AgustaWestland 109SP
Height: 3.4m
Fuel Capacity: 575 litres
Operational range / endurance: 2 hour 30 mins

WNDLR Service Stats

2Aircraft
1,559Total Missions 2021
£1,700Fuels Each Mission
2Medics Onboard
591Hours Flown in 2021

WNDLR Service Stats

Children's Air Ambulance Helicopters

Our clinically designed aircraft provides a flying intensive care unit for babies and children that need to receive urgent care.

We work with 11 NHS paediatric retrieval teams across the UK, enabling them to bring their specialist equipment on board to safely transfer their patients from one hospital to another. If a child is too sick to fly then the Children’s Air Ambulance fly a specialist team directly to the patient.

About G-NICU & G-CPTZ

Operational From: 2022
Aircraft Model: AgustaWestland 169
Fuel Capacity: 1,110 litres
Operational range / endurance: 2 hour 40 mins
Top Speed: 160-165mph

Children's Air Ambulance Stats

2Aircraft
650+Missions Completed
£3,500Mission Cost
11Clinical Teams
165mphTop Speed

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Children's Air Ambulance Stats

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Explore our helicopters with a 3D tour

Get closer to the state of the art machines that we use to help save lives. Click and drag in the image to move around, and tap the circles to learn more about what makes our helicopters tick.

WNDLR Air Ambulance
Children's Air Ambulance

We save lives by both road and air.
With your help we can save even more.

£20 could pay towards a pair of children's ear defenders to protect little ears from our noisy rotors

£50 could pay towards straps to safely secure patients before and during their flight, allowing our crew to focus on treatment.

£100 could pay towards a vaccum splint, used to support and hold fractured limbs during transport to hospital

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No one ever knows when a call will come in for our local critical care team, but we do know that people in our community need our life saving services 24/7 and 365 days of the year.

Like on our helicopters, the Critical Care Cars, previously known as Night Cars, have highly trained medics onboard who effectively bring emergency hospital care to the patient – providing vital medical intervention to them sooner. These are the things that can mean the difference between life and death so it’s important we choose the most suitable way of reaching those who need our help.

Right now, we choose not to fly our helicopters at night as we have a good local road network and the roads are clearer at night and this is when the car really comes into its own. However, our Critical Care Cars, are also frequently used within the day to attend emergencies that are quicker to reach by road.