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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance’s (SCAA) longest-serving pilot has proved he’s the best in the business. Captain Russell Myles, who helped establish the charity’s life-saving service 10 year ago, has won the prestigious Air Ambulances UK Awards of Excellence “Pilot of the...

SCAA was quickly on scene to help a motorcyclist injured in an accident near Kirriemuir. SCAA paramedics worked alongside Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues and Police Scotland before the injured rider was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. A walker injured in a recent fall on Mull was flown...

When medics examined Debbie’s battered and broken body at her family farm near Tomintoul, they knew that speed would be a determining factor in saving her life – and Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance was there to fulfil that critical race against time. Debbie was tossed and trampled...