EMS helicopter stranded after pilot breaks leg
Source: HeliHub.com, 25-Feb-13
A German air ambulance helicopter was grounded recently after the pilot suffered a broken leg away from base. The “Christoph 70″ helicopter – a Eurocopter EC135 – had landed on the rooftop pad at Pößneck on Tuesday 12th February at 15:30 hours for a patient transfer to Bad Berka. However, the pilot broke his leg [...]
ADAC releases 2012 operations in numbers
Source: ADAC, 23-Jan-13
(electronic translation) The rescue and intensive care transport helicopter of the ADAC air rescue in 2012 had so many missions flying like never before. Overall, the “Yellow Angel” moved out of the sky 49 243 times, in 2011 there were approximately 47 000 operations. This represents an increase of four per cent compared to 2011. Here, a [...]
ADAC orders 14 EC145T2 and 3 EC135P2e
Source: Eurocopter, 13-Sep-12
ADAC Air Rescue today signed its latest order in a framework acquisition agreement with Eurocopter for the purchase of 14 EC145 T2 and three EC135 P2e helicopters, which are to be delivered between 2013 and 2017. The contract concluded today at the ILA Berlin Air Show was for an EC145 T2, which is part of [...]
UK – WPD Helicopter Unit prepares for third and fourth EC135s
Source: HeliHub.com, 22-Jun-12
British powerline patrol operator WPD Helicopter Unit is expanding its EC135P1 fleet from two to four aircraft. The third EC135 arrived Thursday 21st June at Oxford Airport for the fitment of high-intensity strobe lights by Eurocopter UK, and was still carrying it’s German registration D-HKUG, serial 0090. It will shortly be re-registered in the UK [...]
Germany – “Christoph 5″ flies 50,000th mission
Source: Christoph 5, 08-May-12
(electronic translation) On 2 May started the rescue helicopter “Christoph 5″ on his 611th Use this year. In the space Speyer, a 32-year-old man had contracted when handling methylated spirits severe burns on face and body. After the emergency medical first aid on the spot he was in a helicopter in the center of the burn victims brought BG [...]
ADAC welcomes first female pilot
Source: HeliHub.com, 11-Apr-12
German EMS operator ADAC has recently welcomed the first female pilot to their roster of around 150. Melanie von Allwörden has joined their “Christop 39″ base at Perleberg, approx 100 miles south east of Hamburg, flying a Eurocopter EC135. The 34-year old previously worked for the Hamburg Police – and lives in Hamburg with her [...]
SAF Helicopters buys EC135 from Germany’s ADAC
Source: HeliHub.com, 08-Mar-12
French operator SAF have bought an early Eurocopter Ec135T1 from the German EMS operator ADAC. The particular example is serial number 0042, previously registered D-HEUR in Germany and now in France as F-GMTU As they are replaced in Germany by new EC135s, ADAC is selling off all its T1 and P1 models. British operator WPD [...]
UK: First EC135P1 registered for WPD
Source: HeliHub.com, 09-Dec-11
WPD Helicopter Unit have now registered their first EC135P1 as G-WPDB. Previously D-HAIT with German EMS operator ADAC, it is expected to be joined by sister ship G-WPDA from the same source within days. As recently as 22nd November, the helicopter was still in its ADAC yellow scheme at Bonn-Hangelar airport, but it is expected [...]
ADAC sells two EC135P1s to UK operator
Source: HeliHub.com, 25-Oct-11
German motoring and EMS operator ADAC has sold two of its early ambulance-role Eurocopter EC135s to a British operator. The two EC135P1s will be the first P1 models on the UK register – prior to serial 0501 being imported for the West Midlands Police, every 135 in the UK had had Turbomeca power, and by [...]
Becker intercom system installed in 1000th EC135
Source: Becker Avionics, 08-Sep-11
Becker Avionics is pleased to announce the recent delivery by Eurocopter Germany GmbH of the 1000th EC135 to ADAC Air Rescue with a Becker Avionics digital audio and intercom system, DVCS6100, installed. The EC135 light twin-engine multi-purpose helicopter, along with the Becker DVCS have been very successful products over the last decade. ADAC Air Rescue [...]
Eurocopter hands over 1000th EC135 to ADAC in ceremony at Donauworth
Source: Eurocopter, 20-Jul-11
Eurocopter today delivered the 1,000th EC135 to its new owner. Fifteen years after the first of these helicopters rolled off the production line at the Eurocopter plant in Donauwörth, the group’s President and CEO Lutz Bertling handed the keys of the new aircraft on this landmark occasion to Peter Meyer, the President of ADAC, Germany’s [...]
Christoph Europa 1 marks 50,000th mission
Source: HeliHub.com, 02-Jun-11
ADAC, the German-based rescue organisation, has announced that it’s “Christoph Europa 1″ base achieved its 50,000th mission on 18th May. Based at Aachen-Merzbrück airfield, the helicopter was on its 725th Use this year after being called to an emergency to Baesweiler. These impressive figures reflect a high daily operating frequency, which averaged five missions per [...]
MD Helicopters announces new Service Center in Germany
Source: MD Helicopters, 03-May-11
MD Helicopters, Inc (MDHI), a leading manufacturer of commercial and military helicopters, has announced that ADAC Luftfahrt Technik GmbH, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, has been approved as an Authorized MD Helicopters Service Center. ADAC is now approved to provide airframe maintenance, component overhaul, and part and accessory sales to the operators of the MD 900 /902 [...]
Eurocopter India hires EMS expert Dr Erwin Stolpe
Source: Eurocopter India, 19-Apr-11
Dr Stolpe, chief flight surgeon and medical director of the biggest HEMS operator of Europe, Germany’s ADAC Air Rescue, will be in India for four days from April 19th – April 22nd, 2011 to support the urgent need to adopt HEMS in India. Eurocopter, the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer, is pleased to announce the ‘India [...]
ADAC takes over rescue helicopter “Christoph 18″ from DRF
06-Jan-11
ADAC have taken over the running of Germany rescue helicopter “Christoph 18″ at Ochsenfurt for the next five years using an EC135, after winning a tender. The previous operator was DRF
New home for Christoph Europa 1 in Merzbrück
Source: ADAC, 18-Sep-10
With a solemn ceremony today to dedicate the ADAC air rescue and the cities of Aachen the new building of the air rescue Christoph Europa 1 a. After ten months of construction, air rescue center is a completely new developed, the most modern requirements. This will start in the over 35-year history of the rescue [...]
Germany: ADAC wins tender for “Christoph 18″ in Ochsenfurt
Source: HeliHub.com, 03-Aug-10
From 1 January 2011, non-profit operator ADAC Air Rescue Air Rescue will take over the “Christoph 18″ air ambulance base in Ochsenfurt. ADAC believe that the decision in their favour was partly due to to their better training concepts for pilots, paramedics and doctors, something that the Zweckverband für Rettungsdienst und Feuerwehralarmierung (the contracting authority) [...]
ADAC practices over-water rescue – without a winch
Source: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 20-May-10
This press story shows German operator ADAC Luftrettung carrying out some training for over-water rescue operations with their “Christop 33″ Eurocopter EC135. However, HeliHub.com notes the complete absence of a winch, relying instead on a fixed rope with a padded loop on the end. In come countries, we guess that could generate some “health and [...]
cueSim EC135 Full Flight Simulator Qualifies in Germany
23-Apr-10
cueSim Ltd announced that the ADAC HEMS Academy, Germany has received Qualification for the first of two Full Flight Simulators at their base in Hangelar. The device, which simulates EC135 T2 and P2 is the first helicopter Full Flight Simulator to be Qualified in Germany. A second device, providing EC135 T2+ and P2+ and EC145 [...]
German’s ADAC reports 2009 1.5% up with 45,705 mission
Source: ADAC, 27-Jan-10
[automatic translation from German, with manual updates] Internal emergencies are by far the most common causes of Use Never before has the ADAC air rescue helicopter rose into the air as often as 2009: The number of operations to 45 705 had, that is 662 or 1.5 percent more than the year before. The 45-ADAC [...]
