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Established | 2011 |
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Legal status | Registered charity |
Headquarters | Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England |
Region served | |
Royal patron | Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh [1] |
Revenue | £12.2 million [2] (2024) |
Staff | 128 [2] (2024) |
Volunteers | 103 [2] (2024) |
Website | www |
The Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA), previously the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance, is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter-based air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East England region.
The charity's helicopter, which is night-capable, is a Eurocopter EC135 [3] , registered G-TVLY, operating between 7 am and 2 am. [3] [4] It is based at RAF Benson – roughly halfway between Oxford and Reading – with two pilots and a medical team. It also operates five emergency response vehicles (ERV), which, like the helicopter, carries a doctor and paramedic. [3]
In the year ending March 2024, TVAA's income was £12.2 million, against expenditure of £12.2M, of which £7.9M was spent on operating the charitable emergency service. [2] In 2019, TVAA responded to 2,670 incidents. [5]
In 2018, the charity appeared on Channel 4's TV programme Emergency Helicopter Medics , which follows the crews responding and treating emergency patients. [6] Other air ambulances that featured in the show include Great North Air Ambulance and East Anglian Air Ambulance.