7-Jul-2010Source: Times of India
Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday minced no words while shooting down the four proposals to construct private helipads in the island city and suburbs.... Read more
7-Jul-2010Source: Invermere Valley Echo
Helipad “failed the inspection”. The local mayor says that required upgrades will be very expensive and include things such as burying hydro lines and moving oxygen tanks at the hospital.... Read more
7-Jul-2010Source: BBC
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has carried out tests of the pad using a Stornoway-based Sikorsky S92... Read more
6-Jul-2010
A new helipad has been inaugurated at Fratta and is available 24×7... Read more
6-Jul-2010Source: Seattle Times
A proposal to put a helistop on top of Bellevue’s downtown Bank of America building will once again come before the Bellevue City Counci... Read more
23-Jun-2010Source: Recorder & Times
Brockville General Hospital wants air ambulances to land at the municipal airport in Tincap rather than the Gord Watts Municipal Centre, as the city’s helipad is becoming too costly to maintain.... Read more
22-Jun-2010Source: ABC
Local business owner Rex D’Aquino wants to build the landing pad at the Highland Heritage Estate on the Mitchell Highway, east of the city.... Read more
7-Jun-2010Source: Altru Health System
Altru Health System, Grand Forks, NDÂ – As part of a grant awarded to UND Aerospace by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Altru Health System received a state-of-the-art helipad. This is similar to one currently used at the FAA research and technical center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This spring, Altru became the first test... Read more
27-May-2010Source: Shetland Times
Health officials say the much-vaunted site will help save lives as casualties are flown in to a dedicated area as close as possible to the Gilbert Bain Hospital.... Read more
26-May-2010Source: BBC
A new helipad has opened at Musgrove Park hospital in Taunton allowing paramedics to respond more quickly to incidents in isolated areas. The area is served by an EC135 from Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance... Read more
23-May-2010Source: Murray Ledger
Murray-Calloway County Hospital officials welcomed the Taylor family and members of the public Friday morning for the dedication of the Della Taylor Memorial Helipad.... Read more
17-May-2010Source: Amarillo Globe-News
The $550K Gray County Heliport Facility to be built near the Pampa Regional Medical Center will house the LifeStar ambulance helicopter that now serves the eastern Texas Panhandle.... Read more
15-May-2010Source: The Guardian
Prince Edward Island”s government refuses EMS helipad, reiterating position that all helicopter transfers originate from the Province’s two primary referral hospitals.... Read more
13-May-2010Source: Deccan Herald
The Environment Ministry has approved terms of reference (TOR) for development of the country’s first fully automated helipad in the national capital.... Read more
11-May-2010Source: KOSA, CBS channel 7
City council members will vote on a new ordinance, which will enable the police chief to review all landing requests, and approve sites as needed.... Read more
8-May-2010Source: Olala
Detailed project reports for constructing three helipads, submitted by the Department of Tourism, Government of Sikkim, have been recently sanctioned, while two more proposals are under consideration.... Read more
7-May-2010Source: News West 9
State Department of Transportation project development engineer Richard Allison says the latest heliport in Cimarron and the other three were put into areas that had no airports for emergency medical evacuations.... Read more
7-May-2010Source: Beatrice Daily Sun
A new emergency helipad has been completed just to the east of Big Indian Lake in southern Gage County.... Read more
7-May-2010Source: Colombo Page
The eight-storey, 175,000 square feet building constructed at a cost of 2.8 billion rupees is equipped with a roof-top helipad to provide air ambulance services.... Read more
4-May-2010Source: Buffalo Business First
The completion of a $32 million emergency department at Mercy Hospital enables the use of a helipad at the South Buffalo hospital for the first time in more than a decade.... Read more
25-Apr-2010Source: BizAvNews
Helipad is certified for types of gross weight up to 7 tonnes... Read more
9-Apr-2010Source: Queensland Times
AS thousands of Easter Monday Funday visitors jostled for a good car park, a small percentage opted to ditch the roadside in favour of a nice spot on the grass near the city’s helipad.... Read more
26-Mar-2010Source: Manly Daily
RESIDENTS have suggested a helipad on Scotland Island for faster emergency transport to hospital.... Read more
18-Mar-2010Source: St Petersburg Times
Pasco Sheriff Bob White’s plan to build a new helicopter hangar at the Land O’Lakes Jail has gotten complicated and led him to bump heads with county administrators over aspects of it.... Read more
18-Mar-2010Source: STARS
FERNIE: The Elk Valley Hospital’s helipad has been certified by Transport Canada for night landings with the use of night vision goggles (NVG); the helipad is the first day time helipad in Canada to receive this certification. This means that pilots from STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society) air ambulance are now able to land... Read more
14-Mar-2010Source: Cambridge News
After years of campaigning and fundraising by dedicated groups and individuals, hospital bosses have lodged detailed plans for a helipad on land south of the Rosie maternity hospital.... Read more
11-Mar-2010Source: Northampton Chronicle & Echo
Dr John Trenfield, a consultant in emergency medicine at NGH, and Richard Craske, the chief pilot at Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance, said land they had identified near the entrance to the A&E department, would be ideal for a landng site and would be a major boost to the hospital.... Read more
11-Mar-2010Source: Times of India
The highway ministry now wants a helipad every 100km along the national highways. National and state highways account for almost 60% of road fatalities and most of the serious injuries in the country.... Read more
13-Feb-2010Source: The Northern Scot
The Queen, Prince William and Prime Minister Gordon Brown have all given their backing for a helipad in Elgin that could save lives.... Read more
13-Feb-2010Source: The Northern Scot
The Queen, Prince William and Prime Minister Gordon Brown have all given their backing for a helipad in Elgin that could save lives.... Read more
3-Feb-2010Source: MySuburbanLife
By a 5-1 vote Monday, Feb. 1, the Hinsdale Village Board approved Adventist Hinsdale Hospital’s request to build a helistop atop the hospital’s existing parking deck as part of the hospital’s proposed $75 million expansion project.... Read more
3-Feb-2010Source: Lebanon Daily News
The current Jonesburg station on Route 72 near the Route 22 overpass includes approximately 10,000 sq.ft, but they need 14,000+ sq.ft, “We have vehicles to park, we have the impound lot, and we need to have space for a helicopter to land,”... Read more
3-Feb-2010Source: Lebanon Daily News
The current Jonesburg station on Route 72 near the Route 22 overpass includes approximately 10,000 sq.ft, but they need 14,000+ sq.ft, “We have vehicles to park, we have the impound lot, and we need to have space for a helicopter to land,”... Read more
30-Jan-2010Source: Cranford Chronicle
The Kenilworth Planning Board approved an application by Merck & Co. to install a helicopter landing pad on top of a seven story parking garage on the site.... Read more
29-Jan-2010Source: MNySuburbanLife.com
Adventist Hinsdale Hospital’s plan to build a new patient wing and add a helistop pad to the existing facility will come to a Village Board vote Monday.... Read more
28-Jan-2010Source: Vindicator
The helipad at Liberty Dayton Regional Medical Center (LDRMC) is being renovated with new amber lights, extended sidewalks and a new lighted, windsock... Read more
21-Jan-2010Source: Eyewitness News
While some residents were concerned about noise pollution and an increase of traffic in their area others said the project was progressive.... Read more
15-Jan-2010Source: Visalia Times-Delta
he Kaweah Delta Hospital Foundation and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., won the grant to finance the project, according to a news release... Read more
6-Jan-2010Source: Helihub.com team
On Monday, the “Villa La Contra” helipad has been authorized for use for operations at night (document reference ENAC Prot No. 0000061/DIRGEN/AIN of 04/01/2010). Smeralda International Service, who operate the helipad, have thus achieved a further milestone in the development of private sector helicopter flight in Sardinia. In summer 2010, it will be allso possible... Read more
30-Dec-2009Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Medical services for Torres Strait island communities will receive a boost, with the Queensland government to spend $4.6 million on a helipad at Thursday Island.... Read more
29-Dec-2009Source: Press & Journal
A bed-and-breakfast operator wants to build a helipad for the north’s lifeline air ambulances in her front garden.... Read more
29-Dec-2009Source: Sun Sentinel
A court has denied a Florida real estate company’s bid to use a helicopter pad originally built for former President Nixon’s island getaway home.... Read more
24-Dec-2009Source: ABC
A new helipad designed to make the transfer of critically ill patients more efficient is being opened at Gilgandra.... Read more
22-Dec-2009Source: Marshall County Tribune
The Farmington-Rich Creek Volunteer Fire Department has plans to build a paved helicopter pad next to its fire hall on Wade Brown Road, the fire chief said... Read more
15-Dec-2009Source: Gazette Virginian
Members of the North Halifax Volunteer Fire Department were joined by representatives from Halifax Regional Health System and Centra Health of Lynchburg to celebrate the department’s new helipad with a groundbreaking ceremony Friday.... Read more
15-Dec-2009Source: WLFI
The new Saint Elizabeth East is one step closer to opening its doors after a successful test landing on the hospital’s new rooftop helipad.... Read more
13-Dec-2009Source: BC Local News
Cowichan District Hospital’s disabled helipad could be open by Monday, pending Transport Canada’s OK on tree safety and other work being finished this weekend, CDH’s site director says.... Read more
9-Dec-2009Source: North Queensland Register
Member for Hinchinbrook, Andrew Cripps, has demanded answers from Health Minister Paul Lucas after concerns were raised the helipad at the Ingham Hospital still does not meet design specifications and Queensland Health will not let helicopters land on it.... Read more
8-Dec-2009Source: Canada.com
Transport Canada has shut down the helicopter landing facility at Cowichan District Hospital. On Nov. 18 the agency closed the helipad due to concerns about trees on a neighbouring property posing a safety hazard to the air ambulances.... Read more
9-Nov-2009Source: Park Record
The company has already used The Canyons as a base for shuttling its customers into the mountains, said Rusty Dassing, a senior guide at Wasatch Powderbird Guides. “Instead of operating out of the parking lot, they’ve got a better place in mind to have helicopters coming in and out of The Canyons,” Dassing said. A... Read more
9-Nov-2009Source: UTV Weekly
REACH and the Bureau of Land Management were showing off a new helipad in Glamis near the Glamis Beach Store... Read more
5-Nov-2009Source: Mineral Daiy News Tribune
Representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration were in Keyser Thursday to inspect the new helipad at Potomac Valley Hospital.... Read more
30-Oct-2009Source: Sutter Medical Center
The Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley project reached another major milestone with the official opening of the newly relocated helicopter landing site today.The site received approval for use following the final state permit inspection earlier this week by the CalTrans Division of Aeronautics.... Read more
29-Oct-2009Source: Somerset County Gazette
PLANS for a helicopter landing pad at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital are set for approval. Hospital bosses want the emergency helipad in front of the Accident and Emergency department, in the Queen’s Building.... Read more
7-Oct-2009Source: KTVZ
The Roseburg Planning Commission recently approved the hospital’s request to construct a landing area for helicopters in the rear parking lot.... Read more
30-Sep-2009Source: Globo
24 bus stops, 25 helipads!... Read more
23-Sep-2009Source: Pierce County Herald
Meeting regarding Conditional Use Permit for a private heliport in the General Rural Flexible 8 District for Christopher Brekken... Read more
22-Sep-2009Source: Norte
It has been common in the hospital the landing of helicopters bringing patients from the entire northern region of Minas Gerais. Some patients from other cities in need of urgent care use the service in order to get faster, and more likely to survive.... Read more
22-Sep-2009Source: The Times
The yacht — the fourth in Abramovich’s private fleet — drips luxury. It boasts two helipads, two swimming pools — the larger of which doubles up as a dance floor when drained — and 6ft-wide home cinema screens in all 24 guest cabins.... Read more
21-Sep-2009Source: The Spectrum
Vandals smashed the lights at the Beaver Dam-Littlefield Fire Department helicopter landing pad earlier this week, leaving Chief Jeff Hunt wondering not just who, but also why.... Read more
11-Sep-2009Source: News-Review
Mercy’s request for a conditional use permit to build the 66-square-foot pad will be the focus of a public hearing during a Sept. 21 Roseburg Planning Commission meeting. The 7 p.m. meeting will be in City Council chambers, City Hall, 900 S.E. Douglas Ave.... Read more
3-Sep-2009Source: Seattle Times
Helicopters hovering over Bellevue will become a more common sight next week after Overlake Hospital Medical Center opens a new helicopter-landing pad at its main Bellevue campus. The hospital expects five to 10 patient transports per month. That’s “quite a big increase” from the current number, said Overlake spokeswoman Karen Johnson.... Read more
3-Sep-2009Source: WCBD
In the past, emergency helicopters were forced to land across the highway at Charleston Southern University... Read more
3-Sep-2009Source: Great Lakes Advocate
THE Westpac Rescue Helicopter will no longer be forced to negotiate uneven landing sites to receive patients in Tea Gardens following the approval of a helipad in town.... Read more
27-Aug-2009Source: East Side Business Journal
Overlake Hospital Medical Center is opening a new helistop at its main Bellevue campus to provide more efficient emergency treatment for patients who need to be airlifted. A private reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new helistop will be held Monday, August 31... Read more
21-Aug-2009Source: Brooks Bulletin
The possible grounding of a Medicine Hat helicopter medivac service will leave STARS as the lone service for southern Alberta. MedicAir announced that funding problems could leave them grounded by the end of the month. But even though STARS is available, without the expansion of the helipad at the Brooks Health Centre, their days of... Read more
18-Aug-2009Source: WABI
The Millinocket Regional Hospital unveiled their new helipad on Monday, much to the delight of hospital staff looking on... Read more
31-Jul-2009Source: PTI
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank today ordered transferring of 21 hectares land in Joshimath area to Chamoli district administration for the construction of a helipad, stadium and an auditorium.... Read more
30-Jul-2009Source: Malay Mail
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