Cornwall Air Ambulance
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The Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust is a charity that provides a dedicated helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The service also has two critical care cars that operate when the helicopter is unable to fly.
Together they attend about 1,100 incidents per year.
As of December 2018, the helicopter service had flown over 28,000 missions since 1987.
Landing on Polzeath beach, August 2008
Cornwall previous Bo105
The former Cornwall Air Ambulance - G-KRNW - a Eurocopter EC135
G-CIOS, a MD 902 of Cornwall Air Ambulance
Isles of Scilly
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The Isles of Scilly is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. One of the islands, St Agnes, is over four miles further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point.
Olaf Tryggvason, who visited the islands in 986. It is said an encounter with a cleric there led him to Christianise Norway.
At the time of King Cnut, the Isles of Scilly fell outside England's rule, as did Cornwall and Wales.
The Isles of Scilly, viewed from the International Space Station
The Scillonian Cross flying above St Mary's Church in Hugh Town.