Metro Aviation Celebrating 30th Anniversary

Metro Aviation, the Shreveport, La., EMS provider and completions facility, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The company was launched at Baton Rouge Municipal Airport, then moved to Shreveport. Metro Aviation initially provided aircraft maintenance services and flew aeromedical and news gathering missions in a Hughes 500. The missions were unique, in that while gathering news, the helicopter was on standby for EMS calls. When an EMS mission popped up, the patient would board, swapping places with the camera operator who would leave the tape from the news gathering operation to be dropped off after the patient was taken to the hospital.

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