Is CareFlight owned by Canadians?
No. CareFlight is an independent Australian charity which has been serving the people of NSW since 1986. In December 2006 the Ambulance Service of NSW awarded a tender for the provision of retrieval helicopters to a Canadian helicopter company, CHC. However, NRMA CareFlight has a seven-year contract with the Ambulance Service to provide specialist doctors to the medical retrieval system, from bases at Orange and Bankstown. The only connection between the two companies is that we are both service providers to the Ambulance Service: CHC provides the helicopters and aviation crew, and we supply the doctors who fly on the helicopters. This service is separate from HIRT.
