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Child Flight is an Australia n Helicopter service dedicated to the Emergency transport of sick children. It operates two twin-engined instrument-flight rated helicopters. As a not-for-profit organisation, the service relies on community support and corporate Sponsorship to complement a government operating grant. The service is located at the NETS base at Westmead in Sydney, Australia . It is the preferred helicopter transport vehicle for NETS , the emergency medical transport service for children. The service employs 9 pilots, an aircraft maintenance engineer and fund-raising and office staff. Founded by Bart Bassett, Dr. Andrew Berry and Jeremy Ovens to supply air transport to NETS , the service started with a twin-engined BO 105 helicopter on November 19 , 1989 . Within twelve months, a new BK 117 was delivered from the factory in Germany as the flagship of the service. In 2000, a second helicopter was purchased to improve service continuity to NETS . It is a twin-engined Eurocopter AS 365 N2 'Dauphin' with tricycle retractable landing gear and high-speed, long distance performance. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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