Hospital Wing gets AHI helo

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Hospital Wing, a Memphis, Tenn.-based non-profit air medical transport service, has taken delivery of its second Airbus Helicopters Inc.’s H130 helicopter, designed to augment the HW's fleet of seven Airbus Helicopters. Hospital Wing also operates three earlier model H130-series helicopters, and three AS350 B3 AStars. HW services a consortium of Memphis-area hospitals, and operates from five bases in the Mid-South serving 27 hospitals and residents within a 200 nautical mile circle, including West Tennessee, and parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Alabama, and Kentucky. Six of the eight helicopters are staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. AHI also manufactures H125 and UH-72A helicopters at its production facility in Columbus, Miss. (Source: Airbus Helicopters 08/11/16)