Official Statistics

Search and rescue helicopter statistics: July to September 2016

Civilian search and rescue helicopter activity statistics in the United Kingdom, from July to September 2016.

From:
Department for Transport
Published
30 November 2016

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Search and rescue helicopter statistics: July to September 2016 report

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Statistics on civilian search and rescue helicopter activity in the United Kingdom.

The operational phase of a new contract to provide civilian search and rescue helicopter (SARH) services in the United Kingdom commenced in April 2015. These new arrangements, managed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), have taken over from the previous mixture of military and coastguard SAR services.

The new arrangement means the department is now responsible for publishing official statistics on the civilian SARH services.

This is the fifth release in a new experimental statistics series covering these civilian SARH operations.

In July to September 2016:

  • there were 864 civilian SARH taskings
  • around two thirds of taskings involving rescue or recovery
  • land-based taskings accounted for 43% of all taskings
  • Caernarfon was the busiest of the 11 bases

Ministry of Defence has historically published a National Statistics series on military search and rescue helicopter activity and continued to publish statistics on military activity until February 2016 in line with the broader transfer of SARH responsibilities to the department. The statistics are available.

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Search and rescue helicopter statistics

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Published 30 November 2016

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