Who We Are
What We Do
First Minutes Matter
At LifeFlight, we’re proud to operate from 10 strategic bases, each designed to bring critical care closer to home.
Our expansive network ensures that, wherever you are, our rapid-response fleet is ready to deliver life-saving services with unmatched efficiency and expertise. Each base is equipped with the latest technology and staffed by dedicated professionals, committed to bringing top-tier medical care right to your doorstep. With LifeFlight, you’re never far from the best in aeromedical care!
Capabilities
Our Townsville base is home to our Air Ambulance jet, a Challenger 604, and our critical care doctors. Our jets can fly to most countries in the world, and are expertly crewed for long-range, high acuity transfers.
Capabilities
Townsville Fixed Wing
Challenger 604
We share our current base facility with RFDS in Mount Isa, where crews operate a BK117 helicopter. Construction has officially commenced for a new base build in the region so we can better service the North West.
Capabilities
Mount Isa Rotary Wing
BK117 C1
LifeFlight’s critical care doctors are on board the local aeromedical services based in Mackay.
Capabilities
LifeFlight’s critical care doctors are on board the local aeromedical services based in Rockhampton.
Capabilities
The Lee Family and Australian Country Choice LifeFlight Centre officially opened in 2023. The base is home to the Surat Gas Aeromedical Service (SGAS) AW139 chopper and crew who service the South West region. The Roma base is home to the inaugural LifeFlight Visitor Experience.
Capabilities
Roma Rotary Wing
AW139 (SGAS)
The Bundaberg Aeromedical Base is a joint facility, shared with LifeFlight and RFDS that officially opened in 2020. Our crews operate from a Bell 412 helicopter, and have successfully fundraised to have a critical care doctor on board seven days per week.
Capabilities
Bundaberg Rotary Wing
Bell412
The LifeFlight Clive Berghofer Maintenance Centre officially opened in August 2024. It is the largest facility in our network, spanning 5,000sqm, to support the ongoing maintenance and engineering of the LifeFlight fleet.
Capabilities
Heavy Maintenance Facility
AW139
AW139
The Clive Berghofer LifeFlight Centre is home of the Toowoomba-based LifeFlight rescue helicopter and the Surat Gas Aeromedical Service (SGAS) rescue helicopter, officially opening in September 2018.
Capabilities
Toowoomba Rotary Wing
AW139
AW139 (SGAS)
The Roy and Nola Thompson LifeFlight Hangar is the centre of our operations on the Sunshine Coast. Both our Bell 412 and AW139 helicopters operate out of our Sunshine Coast base.
Capabilities
Sunshine Coast Rotary Wing
Bell412
Our LifeFlight Brisbane base is home to our helicopter rescue crew, operating an AW139 aircraft, and our Air Ambulance jet crew, operating a Challenger 604. Our critical care doctors are on board each mission that departs from our Brisbane Base.
Capabilities
Brisbane Fixed Wing
Challenger 604
Challenger 604
Brisbane Rotary Wing
AW139
The LifeFlight Singapore Base is home to LifeFlight’s Air Ambulance jet – a Challenger 604 and LifeFlight’s critical care doctors. LifeFlight Australia operates a fully-integrated and dedicated Air Ambulance service, with four of the longest range medically-configured jet aircraft based in the South Pacific
Our fleet of helicopters and jets provide emergency medicine and protection where others can’t. We perform a unique and vital function in the healthcare system, connecting you to the best medical specialists, no matter where you are. Explore our base locations to learn more about our impact in your community.
We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of the land on which we serve and fly, and pay respect to their Elders past, present and future.
