Delivery of the helicopter is expected to take place within Q4 2023 and entry to service is anticipated in Q1 2024 with its fully customised medical interior provided by Specialist Aviation Services. The introduction of an additional AW169 into the EHAAT fleet will support the charity’s strategic objectives in providing advanced, life-saving care to the communities of Essex and Hertfordshire.

The Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust signed for its first AW169 in 2016. The helicopter then took to the skies in the summer of 2017. Five years on and the air ambulance charity will be expanding its fleet with another of the light intermediate-sized twin-engine 4.8 tonne type.