The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) helicopter aircraft At the Glebe Bowness Bay Lake Windermere
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4896 x 3264 px | 41.5 x 27.6 cm | 16.3 x 10.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
8 November 2014Location:
Bowness on Windermere Lake District National Park Cumbria England United Kingdom Great Britain GB UKMore information:
Dr Rupert Bennett, B.Sc., M.B., B.S., D.R.C.O. tragically killed whilst climbing Ben Nevis in Scotland He was a member of the Patterdale and Penrith Mountain Rescue Teams for which he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. As he enjoyed emergency medicine he worked for the Air Ambulance team and the helicopter is dedicated to him. Wikipedia: The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is an English charity based in the United Kingdom. It provides air ambulance services across the North of England, including North Yorkshire, the North-East, Cumbria and Scottish borders. It currently operates three helicopters across its bases at Langwathby, near Penrith, Cumbria and Durham Tees Valley Airport. All three aircraft were introduced into service during 2010 and 2011 are owned by the charity, previous aircraft being leased. The three helicopters are Eurocopter Dauphin AS 365 N2s[1] G-NHAA, G-NHAB and G-NHAC. he charity’s roots go back to 1991, when the Great North Air Ambulance Service Appeal was launched with the aim of providing the North East of England’s first helicopter air ambulance. It took four years to raise enough money to bring this dream to fruition. A controversial but ultimately visionary decision by the Chief Executive of the North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Simon Featherstone, really set the wheels of the new-look charity in motion. He realised that if the charity was to be successful, it would not be under the control and strict guidance of the Ambulance Service. From this moment, the NHS began its gradual withdrawal from the running of the helicopter’s operations. In 2010 the decision was taken to buy three helicopters in order to ease the financial strain of leasing the aircraft. In March 2010, a deposit was placed on the Guardian of the North helicopter, which arrived in the North-East after undergoing a refit. It was followed in 2011 by the new Pride of Cumbria aircraft, which was stationed at Langwathby, near Penrith.