Child Flight was an Australian helicopter service dedicated to the emergency transport of sick children. It operates two twin-engined instrument-flight rated helicopters. As a not-for-profit organisation, the service relies on community support and corporate sponsorship to complement a government operating grant.
The service was located at the Newborn Emergency Transport Service (NETS) base at Westmead in Sydney. It was the preferred helicopter transport vehicle for NETS, the emergency medical transport service for newborns children. The service employed ten pilots, an aircraft maintenance engineer and fund-raising and office staff.
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