Talk:Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter Service

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==What==I hate to correct you but the below is not quite correct, this service did not start until 1975, the Auckland Surf Life Saving Association, New Zealand started their Rescue Helicopter Service in the summer of 1970 at Muriwai beach patrolling the West Coast beaches of Auckland.This service is now known as The Auckland rescue Helicopter Trust which has now neem operational for 45 years.

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The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service is a helicopter surf lifesaving service that operates in Australia.

Founded in 1973 by Surf Life Saving Australia, a not-for-profit organisation, the Service has carried out more than 50,000 flights ranging from patient transfers to search and rescue missions. The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service is the longest serving search and rescue helicopter service in the world, it is also the largest non-profit search and rescue, and aeromedical retrieval service in Australia. Its aircraft and trained medical and operational crews respond quickly and effectively to emergencies threatening the life, health and safety of people caused through medical emergency, illness, natural disaster, accidents or mishap.

What about other states? I thought every state used to have one Wespac helicopter. The Adelaide one is now sponsored by Adelaide Bank. --Scott Davis ^Talk 23:37, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

In other states they have are less involved. Hopefully in the near future i will be putting more information about them in other states. In QLD, and SA the helicopters are only there to provide back up and assistance to Surf Life Savers Patrolling Beaches. The helicopter in adelaide is on standby 24hrs a day, and the Adelaide Bank State Rescue Helicopter has no association with Westpac Life Saver.--Feelinsoryan 01:54, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I Thought Newcastles Helicopter Was a Bell 407 Not A BK 117

Newcastle recently purchased two BK 117s, one for Tamworth (primary) and one for Newcastle (secondary); the Newcastle primary aircraft is a bell 412 - the NSW Government required twin-engined aircraft for the health contract so they moved from 407s to BKs. --121.218.192.155 (talk) 07:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)