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David Craig: How you can help SCAA prepare for take off

SCAA's Chief Executive David Craig.
SCAA's Chief Executive David Craig.

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) saves lives.

The launch of our second aircraft – based at Aberdeen – will see even more lives saved and impacted on positively across Scotland.

And The Press And Journal readers are helping us prepare for take-off.

Your support will help us double our service and bring a new vital pre-hospital care resource to our front-line emergency response network.

Click here to donate

SCAA is thrilled to have the backing of the P&J as it sets out on an exciting new chapter in the six-year-old charity’s story.

Helimed 79 will launch from Aberdeen airport in the spring, flying help and hope to communities right across the country.

And knowing the P&J and its thousands of readers are helping to fuel our flights is fantastic.

We can’t thank everyone enough for their donations which could literally make the difference between life and death for some people.

SCAA can’t fly without the public’s support.

Every gallon of fuel, every highly trained paramedic and experienced pilot, the complex aircraft and our state-of-the-art equipment are all paid for by the public.

The P&J will play a huge part in ensuring Helimed 79 becomes a second people’s helicopter for Scotland – funded by the people of Scotland, for the people of Scotland.

Thank you on behalf of everyone at SCAA and for the many hundreds and, by association, thousands of people who will benefit from this exciting and generous campaign.


David Craig, chief executive of Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance