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Mar 18 2024
‘Cold sweats were coming and going – I knew it was serious.’ SCAA patient recalls being airlifted from remote location in Tay Forest Park
A heart attack can occur at anytime, anywhere, and unfortunately for Martin Drummond, this was to strike while he was staying in an “off-grid caravan deep in the Tay Forest Park” last October (2023). “I was awoken at 6am with a searing pain in my chest,” Martin recalls. “It...Read More -
Mar 13 2024
Meet the Islander cycling from London to Paris to raise thousands for SCAA
From his spare room on Islay, David Brodie is hard at work training for a 520km cycle from London to Paris in aid of Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA). At the time of writing (three months prior to the challenge), David has raised over £2,600 for SCAA – just over half of his £5,000...Read More -
Mar 5 2024
Find out what happens in the five minutes between tasking and take off
Since our inception in 2013, Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) has responded to thousands of time-critical emergencies. Every year, our crews are tasked to hundreds of call outs. SCAA’s tagline is ‘Saving Time, Saving Lives’, as when dealing with a medical emergency, every...Read More -
Feb 26 2024
Walk 100K in March benefits for you and our crews
Our latest fundraising challenge is asking you to walk 100 kilometers in the month of March. Now while 100 kilometers might sound like a lofty target, the average person takes around 5,000 steps a day, which can be close to four kilometers. Do that for 25 days and – congratulations – you’ve...Read More -
Feb 22 2024
Discover the highlights from our SCAA Volunteer Day
On Saturday 17 February, SCAA’s Perth base was brimming with volunteers as we hosted our biannual Volunteer Day. Highlights from the event consisted of training, charity updates, crew Q&A, a tour of the helicopter – and plenty of homemade sweet treats! At the time of writing, SCAA has...Read More -
Feb 19 2024
Meet the skydiving gran raising thousands for SCAA
Staff and crew at the SCAA Perth base recently hosted a special visitor. At 80 years of age, Aberfeldy local Irene Cattanach has added a skydive among her list of adventurous accomplishments. Despite having a fear of heights, Irene completed her skydive in November of last year at Errol Airfield and...Read More -
Jan 15 2024
Demand on Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance continues to rise
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance took to the air a record number of times in 2023 as demand on our life-saving emergency response service continues to grow. Our helicopter air ambulances took to the air 718 times in response to serious illness and injury throughout Scotland, marking a 3% increase...Read More -
Jan 3 2024
Mission Review
SCAA was returning to base from a job in Wick when the crew – including a specialist doctor-led team - was diverted to a medical emergency involving a young boy in Banff. After treatment at the scene, the boy was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, accompanied by the Emergency Medical Retrieval...Read More -
Dec 22 2023
Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance gifted four-legged lifesaver
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance has a new lifesaver on the team. For while the pilots and paramedics are flying life-saving pre-hospital care to those most seriously ill or injured throughout Scotland, Ronin the HeroRAT is busy saving lives in mine-strewn Cambodia under the sponsorship of the...Read More -
Dec 8 2023
Gold Buffalo coin glitters for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance received an early Christmas present when a foreign coin deposited in one of our collection cans turned out to be worth £1,462. The 2015 American Gold Buffalo 50-dollar coin languished among other foreign rejects from our coin counting machine for several...Read More