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Nationwide, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has 47 aircraft that fly from 21 bases across Australia.
Our planes are on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Our aircraft ensure that we can provide essential emergency medical care to more than 80% of Australia.
Our territory spans 7,150,000km² which is larger than Western Europe!
In the year ending June 2007, we made an average of 96 aerial evacuations every day with a total of 35,089 aerial evacuations in the year.
Our pilots spent over 61,381 hours in the air, flying over 21,714,595 kilometres (which is roughly equivalent to flying around the world 465 times!).
The SE Section of the RFDS operates fourteen King Air B200 aircraft. Most of our planes are medically outfitted to carry out
emergency retrievals
. The planes which have not received a full medical fitout, however, provide non urgent inter-hospital transfers for patients travelling long distances for routine treatment or tests.