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Limosa to benefit from Airmedic’s expertise in new partnership to launch electric air ambulance operations in Canada

Airmedic and Limosa have announced a vision­ary part­ner­ship in the elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of air med­ical trans­porta­tion.

Head­quar­t­ed in Mon­tre­al, Limosa is cur­rent­ly devel­op­ing its eVTOL/eCTOL air­craft, named Limo­Con­nect. This col­lab­o­ra­tion com­ple­ments Airmedic’s oper­a­tional excel­lence — with the aim of improv­ing the inte­ri­or design and func­tion­al­i­ty of Limo­Medic, the ambu­lance ver­sion of its air­craft.

Hamid Hami­di, Pres­i­dent and CEO of Limosa, said: “I am excit­ed about this part­ner­ship, as Airmedic brings a wealth of expe­ri­ence in oper­at­ing air ambu­lances in Que­bec, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the north­ern regions. They cur­rent­ly oper­ate heli­copters and fixed-wing air­craft, while our Limo­Medic air­craft com­bines the best of both worlds.

“It can take off and land ver­ti­cal­ly, like a heli­copter, and switch to hor­i­zon­tal flight, like a fixed-wing air­craft. It can also take off and land hor­i­zon­tal­ly. In addi­tion, it is excep­tion­al­ly qui­et, mak­ing it ide­al for use in urban envi­ron­ments.”

Airmedic cur­rent­ly oper­ates a fleet of Air­bus heli­copters and Pila­tus air­craft as air ambu­lances. It is the only com­pa­ny in Que­bec oper­at­ing its own fleet of planes and heli­copters ded­i­cat­ed to emer­gency med­ical evac­u­a­tions and inter-hos­pi­tal trans­fers.

Airmedic was the first pri­vate air med­ical trans­port com­pa­ny in Cana­da to be cer­ti­fied by Accred­i­ta­tion Cana­da in 2016 and has been accred­it­ed by Trans­port Cana­da for night vision gog­gles and IFR for heli­copter oper­a­tions since that same year.

Sophie Larochelle, Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of Airmedic, said: “We are at the begin­ning of an extra­or­di­nary jour­ney in the elec­tric trans­porta­tion sec­tor. We are par­tic­u­lar­ly sen­si­tive to the eco­log­i­cal foot­print of our sec­tor, and with this part­ner­ship we would have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to com­mit to sus­tain­abil­i­ty, as we believe in the inno­va­tion of zero-emis­sion air­craft.”

Mélanie Lussier, Pres­i­dent of Aéro Mon­tréal, added: “This part­ner­ship between Airmedic and Limosa is a strate­gic mile­stone in the evo­lu­tion of advanced air mobil­i­ty in Que­bec. It is a per­fect illus­tra­tion of the sector’s abil­i­ty to inno­vate rapid­ly and sus­tain­ably, while pur­su­ing its goal of con­nect­ing peo­ple.

“Togeth­er, we are tak­ing a sig­nif­i­cant step towards a future where advanced tech­nolo­gies become essen­tial tools in the ser­vice of com­mu­ni­ty well-being.”

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Jason Pritchard

Jason Pritchard is the Editor of eVTOL Insights. He holds a BA from Leicester's De Montfort University and has worked in Journalism and Public Relations for more than a decade. Outside of work, Jason enjoys playing and watching football and golf. He also has a keen interest in Ancient Egypt.

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