LifeSave Transport to Open New Base at Salina Regional Airport
Salina,KS (June 24 2019) - LifeSave Transport, has rented a hangar at the Salina Regional Airport to provide emergency medical transportation services to Salina and north-central Kansas.
At a special meeting Thursday, June 20 the Salina Airport Authority board approved a five-year lease for Hangar 504 to the Wichita-based air ambulance company. LifeSave will base 16 pilots, paramedics and flight nurses at its new Salina base. LifeSave flight operations may begin as early as July 15.
The board also approved financing and a budget for $195,000 in H504 improvements. The improvements will include a new fire sprinkler system and remodeled crew quarters. The hangar will house a LifeSave Bell LongRanger helicopter and has enough space to also support a Beechcraft King Air if the need arises.
A formal introduction and welcome of LifeSave Transport to Salina and North Central Kansas will be announced.
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LifeSave Transport is an independently held medical transport system founded by Kansas emergency medicine physicians and includes fixed wing, rotor wing, ground ambulances, state-of-the art communication center, in-house maintenance facility, education department, and patient billing division. LifeSave operates emergency transport aircraft under its own FAA part 135 certificates throughout Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Hawaii.
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Salina Airport Authority operates the Salina Regional Airport and Airport Industrial Center. Over 100 Airport and Airport Industrial Center businesses and organizations generate 5,996 total jobs and account for nearly $1.2 billion in total economic activity. Docking Institute Economic Impact Study.
The Salina Regional Airport offers daily United jet flights to the Denver International Airport and Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Book a flight online at www.united.com. Passenger information is available at www.flysalina.com.
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Salina Airport Authority
Timothy F. Rogers, A.A.E.
Executive Director
email: trogers@salair.org
phone: 785.827.3914
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LifeSave Transport
Courtney Bachrodt
Director of Business Operations
email:cbachrodt@lifesave.com
phone: 316-932-1418
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