The East Anglian Air Ambulance was officially launched by champion jockey Frankie Dettori in the Summer of 2000 at the Millennium Grandstand at Newmarket Racecourse.

Since its foundation in 2000, the charity has expanded to provide a 365 day a year service covering the 5,000 sq. miles of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. It is now the second busiest air ambulance in the country flying an average of 4 missions per day.

Here in East Anglia we need an air ambulance more than ever. Our roads are getting increasingly congested, leading to ever more road traffic accidents - which already make up more than 50% of our work.

The Air Ambulance began flying in January 2001 and in the early days the service was only able to operate one day a week, but within five months Anglia One was flying five days a week.

With a top cruise speed of 132 miles per hour Anglia One reaches patients quickly delivering high level, clinical care to patients in the field. It can then transport them to hospital within minutes, making it an extra life-saving resource in out region.
	Anglia One consists of a pilot and two highly skilled paramedics, or a doctor and a paramedic, and now the helicopter and its crew are on stand-by for 365 days a year and can reach almost anywhere in the region within 20 minutes and often quicker. The helicopter is equipped with a special stretcher, defibrillator/multi monitor for
checking blood pressure and oxygen in the blood, twelve lead ECG and Respiratory ventilator. The equipment is extensive and running costs are high. Yet the air ambulance receives no government or national lottery funding and is totally dependent on your generous sponsorship and fundraising to keep Anglia One operational.

Operating during daylight hours, the helicopter begins and ends its day at Norwich airport where Sterling Helicopters, the operator, is based. During the day, however, Anglia One can be found at a temporary location at Red Lodge, near Mildenhall, the central point from where the region’s eight hospitals – including the trauma centre at Addenbrooke’s – can be accessed within the shortest time frame.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance is now the second busiest air ambulance in the country flying an average of 4 missions per day. It’s our job to get patients to hospital within the “Golden Hour”, and in an air ambulance that journey will take only minutes, greatly increasing patients’ chances of making a full recovery. Air ambulance cover can make a crucial difference in a medical emergency. The helicopter’s speed and its ability to access remote areas makes it an ideal solution to the particular problems posed by our region.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance has just received its new helicopter a Eurocopter BK117 once it has been fully fitted out with equipment and re-sprayed in yellow it will come into service in March/April 2006. This new Air Ambulance will then replace the existing Bolkow 105, which is now 27-years-old.

Running costs for the new aircraft are more expensive - it will cost about £110,000 per month to keep in the air, however, this equates to just £1 per person per year for the population of East Anglia.

The ambulance trust covers Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and receives no NHS, government or lottery funding and is therefore entirely dependent on fund-raising and public donations.

How to make a Donation

By post

Please send a cheque made payable to:
East Anglian Air Ambulance
Hangar D
Gambling Close
Norwich Airport
Norwich
NR6 6EG

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