Multiflight wins new maintenance deal with Yorkshire Air Ambulance
August 24, 2011
The charity Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) has awarded its new maintenance contract for its helicopters to Multiflight.Multiflight is delighted to be awarded the contract, which commenced on August 20th. The new contract sees Multiflight, a leading UK private aviation company, take over all the maintenance of YAA’s two MD902 Explorer helicopters. The YAA has been located on Multiflight’s site at Leeds Bradford Airport, Leeds, West Yorkshire, for more than ten years now, but until now had been tied into a maintenance contract with another aviation firm.
Peter Sunderland, Chairman of the YAA, said: “The YAA are proud of our Yorkshire heritage and enjoy building partnerships with other Yorkshire based companies. We are therefore delighted to be developing our working relationship with Multiflight who will now be maintaining our two helicopters, as well as us operating from their site at Leeds Bradford International Airport.”
The YAA is an independent charity operating two life-saving helicopters in Yorkshire. The charity needs to raise £7,200 every day to keep both of its helicopters in the air and maintained – that’s £2.6million each year. Steve Borrowdale, Managing Director of Multiflight, said: “Multiflight is delighted to be awarded the new five-year Yorkshire Air Ambulance contract and to be the company chosen to manage and maintain the aircraft for the charity. Yorkshire Air Ambulance provides a valuable service to our region and Multiflight is pleased to be able to help and support the charity. The new Yorkshire Air Ambulance contract further cements our reputation for delivering a complete turnkey solution for the customer.”
Multiflight also has a five-year contract with the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) to manage, crew and maintain its helicopters. Multiflight has supplied the charity with two Dauphin Eurocopter AS 365 N2 helicopters.
Multiflight awarded new YAA helicopter maintenance contract
Picture shows (Left to right): Miles Beecham (Finance Director, Multiflight), Peter Sunderland (Chairman, YAA) and Steve Borrowdale (Managing Director, Multiflight).
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