Air Evac (airline)
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Air Evac is a Medevac airline that provides services across Arizona. Mainly a helicopter user, Air Evac also uses a handful of small airplanes for emergencies.
The airline is one of the largest daily flight operators from Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.
Air Evac was formed in 1969. The airline would later be bought by Petroleum Helicopters of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Apart from the Phoenix international airport hub, the airline has established seven other hubs in Arizona, including one at Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa.
According to the airline company, they transport an average of 6,500 passengers every year, and they have logged about 25 million miles of flying. The airline also does charter Medevac work in different areas of the world.
Although the airline has acquired a few small aircraft to be put in use when more than one patient needs to be flown from remote areas, Air Evac relies heavily on their helicopters, as most of their rescues involve dangerous landings in streets and avenues that are usually filled with electrical devices, police cars, fire trucks and bystanders.
The patients are flown, in the helicopter flights cases, usually to the nearest hospitals, such as the Good Samaritan Hospital centers or St. Luke's Children's Hospital, for example. Airplane passengers are flown to the nearest Air Evac base, and, from there, driven to a hospital.