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U Michigan Becomes First U.S. EC155 EMS Customer

The University of Michigan Hospital’s Survival Flight program will take delivery of the first EMS-configured Eurocopter EC155 to be placed in U.S.

By Mark Huber • Contributor

August 28, 2011

The University of Michigan Hospital’s Survival Flight program will take delivery of the first EMS-configured Eurocopter EC155 to be placed in U.S. service in October. The medical interior completion is being done by Metro Aviation in Shreveport, La. This is the first of three EC155s expected to join the Survival Flight program. Survival Flight currently operates a trio of Bell 430s and a Cessna Citation Encore managed and supported by Pentastar Aviation.

Survival Flight transports patients and harvest teams for organ donations. The service flies more than 160,000 miles each year and has flown more than 4 million miles in the past 26 years. Since 1983, Survival Flight has flown more than 30,000 patient transports.

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