Avalon 2015: Toll Group signs for eight AW139s
The helicopters will be operated to perform Emergency Medical Service (EMS) missions in the Southern Region of New South Wales from the newly constructed base in Bankstown (Sydney), Orange, Wollongong and from the existing base in Canberra under a contract part of the newly established Helicopter Retrieval Network in New South Wales.
In addition to this order, Toll’s base in Bankstown, will become an AgustaWestland Authorised Training Center for the AW139 providing Australia’s first AW139 Level D Full Flight Motion Simulator. The base will also include facilities for maintenance, crew training, the latest high fidelity virtual reality crewman and integrated crew training simulator and a Full Helicopter Underwater Escape Training Facilities.
AgustaWestland has a long history of providing state-of-the-art helicopters to both commercial and government customers in Australia and New Zealand where, other than the helicopters already in operation, 24 new AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters are on order for deliveries covering 2015 and 2016.
Toll Group is the Asia Pacific region’s leading provider of transport and logistics. Toll has more than 10 years’ experience in providing helicopter emergency medical services including helicopter aeromedical evacuations for several Australian Government agencies such as the Australian Federal Police and Australian Defence Force.
