CALSTAR Air Medical Services (Sacramento Mc Clellan) , a subsidiary of REACH Air Medical Services (REH, Santa Rosa, CA), is set to open a base at Watsonville Municipal Airport in central California.
The new base will serve the Santa Cruz County, which currently lacks a trauma centre. The carrier plans to base a single Airbus Helicopters (ECF, Marseilles) H135 at the airport.
CALSTAR Air Medical Services, a subscription-based medevac programme, is currently serving Santa Cruz County out of its base at Salinas, CA.
REACH Air Medical Services group, including the CALSTAR unit, currently operates a mix of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, encompassing EC135s, Bell Helicopter 407s, Eurocopter AS350s, AW109s, Beech (twin turboprop) 200s, and PC-12s.
