FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 20, 2013
Morgantown, Pennsylvania 19543
Keystone Med-Flight LLC announces new Vice President of Operations
Keystone Med-Flight LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawke Aerospace, today announced it has appointed Christopher Bassett as the company’s new Vice President of Operations.
Chris Bassett is a well-known and respected aviation professional with over 25 years of experience in rotorcraft flight operations management. Chris was most recently the vice president of operations for Air Methods Corporation. At Air Methods, Mr. Bassett was responsible for flight operations, safety and FAA compliance for over 300 base sites and 1400 pilots.
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For additional information contact: Rick Hinkle at 717-961-5015 or email: rhinkle@hawkeaerospace.com.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2012
Morgantown, Pennsylvania 19543
Keystone Med-Flight LLC announces new Chief Pilot
Keystone Med-Flight LLC (“Keystone”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawke Aerospace, today announced it has appointed Heidi Ames as the company’s new Chief Pilot.
Heidi is an aviation professional with over 20 years of experience in flight operations management for both commercial air medical companies and the Military. Heidi was most recently the South East Regional Manager and Pilot Hiring Manager for Med-Trans Corporation and was also responsible for the management of 44 helicopter pilots across 11 air medical bases in the Southeastern United States.
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For additional information contact: Rick Hinkle at 717-961-5015 or email: rhinkle@hawkeaerospace.com.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 20, 2012
Morgantown, Pennsylvania 19543
Keystone Med-Flight LLC is awarded the HAI’s Operator Safety Award
Keystone Med-Flight LLC (“Keystone”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawke Aerospace, today announced it has earned the Helicopter Association International’s (HAI) 2011 Operator Safety Award. This coveted honor is presented to helicopter operators who operated without accident in the previous year. HAI acknowledged Keystone for its outstanding 2011safety record and accident-free flight hours.
“This award is a reflection of the dedication and professionalism of our pilots and maintenance technicians as well as our commitment to our “Safety First!” philosophy,” said Keystone’s newly appointed President, Paul Rayhill.
“Keystone Med-Flight can take great pride in the fact that they have met the requirements for this award,” said Matthew Zuccaro, president of HAI. “Keystone’s stated dedication to reducing accident risk and upholding the highest safety standards reflects well on their organization, the air medical transportation industry, and the international helicopter community as a whole.”
Keystone Med-Flight has been awarded the safety award for every year it has been a certified Part 135 operator.
About Keystone Med Flight
Based in beautiful Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Keystone Med-Flight is an FAA Certified Air Carrier and is wholly owned by Hawke Aerospace Holdings, LLC. Keystone provides the highest quality air medical operations, management, consulting and maintenance services. Keystone currently operates four aircraft, including two brand new Agusta SPIFR A109E helicopters, under contract to Tenet Healthcare Corp./Hahnemann University Hospital’s MidAtlantic Medevac program.
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For additional information contact: Rick Hinkle at 717-961-5015 or email: rhinkle@hawkeaerospace.com.
AgustaWestland Delivers First of Two AW109 Powers to Keystone Med-Flight.
14/02/2012
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce it has delivered in January 2012 the first of two AW109 Power helicopters to Keystone Med-Flight LLC. These aircraft will be used to perform flight management operations for the Hahnemann University Hospital’s, Tenet Health System - “MidAtlantic Medevac” Air medical Transport System in Pennsylvania.
The AW109 Power helicopter is equipped with a LifePort designed medical interior, Liquid Oxygen system, Garmin GNS430 system that provides IFR GPS, Com, VOR, LOC, and glide-slope with colour moving map, Bendix/King KMD850 multi-function display, Terrain Awareness and Warning System and a NVG compatible cockpit. AgustaWestland is currently outfitting the second AW109 Power at its facility in Philadelphia to the exact same configuration as the first in service aircraft. The AW109 Power medical fit-out and completion was conducted at Keystone Med-Flights sister company, Uniflight West Penn. ”We are very pleased to have formed this very mutually beneficial partnership with AgustaWestland, Hahnemann and ourselves,” said Rick Hinkle, President of Keystone Med-Flight. “The helicopter has already performed very well for us and we have received numerous compliments from the customer and first responders on its beauty and medical performance.”
AgustaWestland success in the American commercial helicopter market continues to grow with strong sales in recent years across its complete product range for a wide range of applications including medical transport, corporate transport, offshore transport, law enforcement and fire fighting. Today Keystone Med-Flight is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawke Aerospace, a Morgantown, PA, based private equity sponsor. Hawke Aerospace was formed to focus on growing middle market aerospace companies, with a niche specialization in the rotorcraft segment of the industry. Recently Keystone Med-Flight was contracted to provide flight management operations for the Hahnemann University Hospital’s (Tenet Health System) “MidAtlantic Medevac” Air medical Transport System.
For More Information:
Rick Hinkle
Phone: (717) 961-5015 ext 1411
Email: rhinkle@keystonemedflight.com
Keystone
Med-Flight, LLC signs Distribution Agreement with mVisum, Inc. for
first Air Medical use of mVisum’s medical communication technology.
Morgantown, PA December 8, 2010: Keystone announced today that it has signed a distribution and license agreement with the mobile health care communication firm mVisum, Inc.
This
agreement authorizes Keystone to distribute and sell mVisum’s unique
medical data transmission system for use on medically configured
aircraft. mVisum’s technology provides the ability to send, review, and
respond to diagnostic quality medical data, images, and studies on
virtually any “smart phone” which runs on current operating systems,
such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Apple, and Android.
Keystone
Med-Flight plans to include the system as part of the standard
installation on its own medical helicopters and provide the service
turn-key to hospital customers. This system will provide the capability
to transmit on a “real-time” basis, data such as EKGs, Echocardiograms, pulse oxygen data, or live HD video to the receiving hospital’s clinician’s mobile handheld devices or department based PC’s.
All
data is transmitted securely, reliably and on a HIPPA-compliant basis,
using mVisum’s patent pending proprietary system. Advanced technology
features allow the system to be “network aware” so that another
clinician can immediately be contacted if the originally intended
recipient is unavailable or out of range. Once received, data can be
reviewed, analyzed, and responded to using voice or text communication
back through the system.
Rick Hinkle, President of Keystone Med-Flight said, “We
are dedicated to providing our customers with the safest, most reliable
and effective air medical transportation management and mVisum’s technology
will give our customers an important tool to help them monitor and
maintain the stability of very high risk patients.”
Praveen
Dala, President and CEO of mVisum stated, “We are excited about this
opportunity to market our technology to a new health services segment.
mVisum is certain that emergency medical personnel will see significant
benefits from having the ability to transmit real time critical data to
clinicians. With our success in deploying the technology on the ground
at various hospitals, we believe that air
medical transportation is a natural next step for improving medical
communication using mVisum.We are extremely pleased to be working on
this new program with Keystone Med-Flight, whose management team has
pioneered many of the hospital based air medical programs now in
existence.”
For More Information:
Rick Hinkle
Phone: (717) 961-5015 ext 1411
Email: rhinkle@keystonemedflight.com
Hawke Capital Partners Reaches Agreement to Acquire Keystone Med-Flight Services
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - Hawke Capital Partners
Malvern,
PA – October 12, 2010: The rotorcraft-focused private equity investor
Hawke Capital Partners announced today that it reached agreement to
acquire substantially all of the assets of Keystone Med-Flight Services,
LLC, based in Morgantown, Pennsylvania. All maintenance for Keystone’s
air medical customers will be provided by sister subsidiary Uniflight,
in one of its 3 MRO facilities: Grand Prairie, Texas; Reading,
Pennsylvania; and Rome, New York. In addition, the addition of Keystone
Med-Flight to the Hawke Capital collection of rotorcraft business
creates the fourth operating entity, adding to existing subsidiaries
Uniflight, Aviation Services Unlimited, LLC which provides non-EMS Part
135 and Part 133 flight services, and Hawke Aircraft Holdings, Inc.
Keystone Med-Flight operates a Part 135 certificate with EMS Operations
Specifications.
Joe
Hawke, Chairman of Hawke Capital and President and CEO of Uniflight,
said, “The addition of Keystone Med-Flight to the Hawke Capital family
of companies marks a very special moment in the development of our
business. It enables us to reconnect with one of the most experienced
and well regarded leadership teams in the HEMS industry, and it will
undoubtedly provide the opportunity to expand even further our
Northeastern U.S. operations. In addition, it represents a unique
opportunity to resurrect the Keystone brand that was so beloved by the
Flight Services customers for the 25 years that the division was in
operation. We could not be happier about the opportunity to partner with
Rick Hinkle, or his partners in Keystone Med-Flight, Jack Hustwit and
Steve Weinert.”
Rick
Hinkle, President of Keystone Med-Flight, added, “It is very rewarding
to have reached the point that we can publicly announce this
transaction. Joe Hawke and I worked closely together when we were both
involved with Keystone Helicopter Corporation, and, to borrow Yogi
Berra’s phrase, it has been “déjà vu all over again” watching Hawke
Capital acquire Uniflight and develop its holdings in the helicopter
industry. We are excited about having the opportunity to once again
serve our customers with the same high quality of service that they
became accustomed to at Keystone. The backing of Hawke Capital and the
MRO support from Uniflight will ensure that we can make good on that
promise.”
Hawke
Capital Partners is led by an Advisory Board chaired by Joe Hawke.
Board members include Greg A’slinger, Paul Rayhill, and, with this
acquisition, will expand to include Rick Hinkle. HCP continues to seek
complementary acquisitions that will expand both the MRO and flight
service lines of its operating subsidiaries.
Tel: 610-648-3880. Web: www.hawkecapital.com
