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Graphic: Leia at Fortescue HQ
Leia's Story
As a fly-in fly-out HR professional for 15 years, Leia Piccoli had witnessed many mining colleagues require an RFDS retrieval in a medical emergency. She had never expected to need the service herself.
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Response Ready for WA Appeal
07 Apr 2020The Response Ready for WA Appeal will enable the immediate bolstering of frontline people – doctors, nurses and pilots.
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BHP leads industry COVID-19 funding for Flying Doctor in Western Australia
02 Apr 2020The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia has today launched an appeal to support its COVID-19 efforts which includes boosting its front line workforce by 25 per cent, investment in critical capital and operational supplies.
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Response Ready for WA
26 Mar 2020Our Flying Doctor crews on the frontline of our 24-hour aeromedical emergency service continue to work through these unprecedented times. Find out more about how we are actively helping every day, in many different ways.
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Victory and Kimberley turn one!
19 Mar 2020It is with great pride that we mark the first year of successfully integrating two world-first Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jets to our wider fleet.
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Rio Tinto invests in a third aeromedical jet for RFDS Western Operations fleet
19 Feb 2020A third Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet is set to join the RFDS Western Operations fleet in 2022.
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Weighing a RFDS PC-12 Aircraft
17 Feb 2020When our PC-12 aircraft arrive from the Pilatus factory in Switzerland, the plane undergoes an aeromedical fit-out, performed by our specialist engineers. The 760 hour fit-out equips the aircraft to serve as an intensive care unit in the sky.
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Meet the Team Monday
12 Feb 2020"I am really proud and privileged to work here at the RFDS!"
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Flying Doctor's world-first aeromedical jet on show for Australia Day
24 Jan 2020RFDS Western Operations chief pilot Albin Unger will be operating the Rio Tinto LifeFlight PC-24 jet aircraft as it does two laps around the iconic Swan River at the City of Perth sky show event on Sunday at approximately 4.45pm.
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