Aviation Statistics
Our Busy Aircraft
In the financial year ending June 2009, the 53 aircraft of the RFDS and a number of chartered aircraft undertook nearly 72,000 flights taking over 73,000 hours and covering a distance of nearly 24 million kilometres. That means an RFDS aircraft was taking off somewhere in Australia on a health-related task on average every 7 ½ minutes, day or night, in all weathers, every day of the year.
Our Statistics at a Glance
Here are some of our national aviation and related patient statistics. The RFDS:
- Has 21 aircraft operating bases
- Flies 53 aircraft and charters a number more
- Employs 178 pilots, 60 engineering staff, 11 radio staff and 15 operational co-ordinators to support our doctors , nurses and clinicians
- Services more than 80% of Australia (7,150,000 km2), an area nearly the size of the United States of America
- Attended 274,237 patients (average of 751 per day)
- Carried out 36,832 aerial evacuations and transfers (average of 101 per day)
- Conducted 14,004 health care clinics (average of 38 per day)
- Flew 23,923,440 kms (average 65,544 per day)
- Flew for 73,211 hours (average 201 per day)
- Made 71,770 landings (average 197 per day)
Aviation Statistics 2008/09 (45.81kB)