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Response Ready for WA

Our Flying Doctor crews on the frontline of our 24-hour aeromedical emergency service continue to work through these unprecedented times. Find out more about how we are actively helping every day, in many different ways.

RFDS Local Hero nominations are now open for 2020

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) is once again casting a spotlight on all those community members who have helped keep the Flying Doctor in the air and in the communities that need it most.

RFDS Visitor Experience

Victory and Kimberley turn one!

It is with great pride that we mark the first year of successfully integrating two world-first Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jets to our wider fleet.

New Bundaberg Aeromedical Base officially opened

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) and RACQ LifeFlight Rescue have officially launched their new, joint Bundaberg Aeromedical Base - and patients are already benefiting.

From Bondi to the bush: 31st Outback Car Trek supports RFDS to bring health equality to regional Aus

RFDS seeking SA and NT consumer representatives

Do you have an interest in the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the care it provides every ten minutes to someone living, working or travelling in SA and NT?

Help close to home

Fortunately for one Adelaide motorcyclist, the RFDS was on hand to assist very close to home.

Desert drama

I kept trying to convince my son he wasn't about to die. But we all thought he was.

The bush gets in your blood

Our newest RFDS Life Member recalls his outback memories of the Flying Doctor.

Little helpers

Meet Jack and Cowboy Roy – two kids doing big things for the Flying Doctor.

Baby Daisy's Flying Doctor journey

Shantell Kennell was enjoying the perfect pregnancy, when almost overnight her blood pressure shot through the roof. Shantell was told she had severe preeclampsia, her life was in danger and the only sure ‘cure’ was to deliver her baby in a specialist unit 600km away...

Rio Tinto invests in a third aeromedical jet for RFDS Western Operations fleet

A third Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet is set to join the RFDS Western Operations fleet in 2022.

First Flying Doctor midwife scholarship recipient hits the skies above Isa

In January, the first recipient of a new Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section) midwifery scholarship has taken to the skies over North West Queensland.

Weighing a RFDS PC-12 Aircraft

When our PC-12 aircraft arrive from the Pilatus factory in Switzerland, the plane undergoes an aeromedical fit-out, performed by our specialist engineers. The 760 hour fit-out equips the aircraft to serve as an intensive care unit in the sky.