UK SAR is currently provided by RAF and Royal ... Caernarfon and Humberside airports and AgustaWestland AW189 helicopters will operate from Lee on Solent, Prestwick airport, and new bases at ...

ABOVE: Three down, three to go: the AW189 is expected to fly operational missions later this year. The latest AW189 for the ...

AAR’s contract selection of the AW189 means it becomes the second ... to include the Falkland Islands with its wider SAR-H program for rescue helicopters on the mainland U.K. and in Cyprus.

The first of the new AW189 helicopters operated by Bristow ... The Sligo, Waterford and Dublin SAR helicopter bases are still being operated by the outgoing contractor CHC Ireland and are due ...

The Bristow-operated AW189 helicopter was scrambled on July 22 to the scene of the sinking, being guided into position by an RAF A400M Atlas aircraft that had pinpointed the spot. Efforts to hoist ...