Dauphin N2 Helicopter Child Flight AustraliaChild Flight Dauphin N2 helicopter (Lola Douglas) seen here at the Canberra Hospital helipad, Australia. Child Flight provides medical treatment and retrieval to all children in NSW & the ACT that don’t have access to the services of a specialist hospital. It was the first emergency helicopter service in the world totally dedicated to the retrieval of critically ill and injured children and infants.
Specs
• 2 X 763 shaft horse power (SHP) engines
• Flying range of 540 nautical miles (or 1,000kms)
• Maximum cruising speed of 165 knots or 325 kilometres per hour
• Fast cruise speed of 150 knots or 305 kilometres per hour
• Normal cruise speed of 140 knots or 285 kilometres per hour
• Maximum take-off weight of 4250kgs.
• On average burns 340 litres of fuel per hour
• Endurance of 3.5 hrs including reserves
• Can carry 2 neonatal ICU's plus 4 medical crew or 2 stretchers and 4 medical crew plus pilots.
• The helicopter has complete instrumentation for all weather instrument flight including night satellite navigation systems for hospital based instrument approaches, besides the normal airport instrument approaches.
Picture added on 21 December 2007
