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Location: Home / Medical Services / Emergency/Trauma Services / Flight For Life
Flight For Life

612 S. Fleishel
Tyler, Texas 75701
Phone (903) 531-5200 or (800) 441-8677
Fax (903) 592-1755
Click here for map

Introducing our New Helicopter!

We are excited to unveil the newest Trinity Mother Frances Flight For Life aircraft, an American Eurocopter EC 145. This new addition to our medical transportation fleet is bigger, stronger, faster and safer, providing numerous state-of-the-art features to improve patient care and safety.

Our Aircraft Fleet


Meet Our Crew

About Us

Flight For Life provides helicopter transportation for patients needing critical care service within a 150-mile radius covering a 32-county area. Our team includes a pilot, flight nurse and a flight paramedic specially trained in both adult cardiac life support (ACLS) and pediatric advanced life support (PALS) for critical patient transports.

In December of 1985, the Flight For Life aeromedical program was born. Trinity Mother Frances recognized a need for rapid transport, in a critical care environment, of critically ill and injured patients from isolated rural medical facilities and EMS agencies to more advanced care centers such as Mother Frances Hospital.

Today, Flight For Life transports critically ill and injured patients to Tyler’s busiest Emergency Care Center at Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler, seeing over 65,000 patients per year. Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler, a licensed 404-bed acute care facility that includes a Level II Trauma Center, with 50 ICU beds, and serves as the region’s referral center for Cardiac, Obstetrical, Gynecological, Pediatric and Hyperbaric Oxygen Services.



Flight For Life averages 600 to 700 transports each year. When requested, Flight For Life also assists medical helicopter programs in Dallas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and other nearby areas.

When needed, local law enforcement enlists the help of Flight For Life during search-and-rescue missions.

Aviation services are provided and operated by Air Methods Corporation of Englewood, Colorado. FAA air carrier certificate # QMLA253U.



Ground Safety Courses
For agencies interested in utilizing Flight For Life services we offer a Ground Safety Course that includes our Flight Crew and aircraft coming on-site to cover the imperatives of Flight For Life procedures:
• Activating the system
• Preparing the Landing Zone
• Ground operations

3rd Rider Program
Flight For Life offers a 3rd Rider Program where individuals who have completed a 2-4 hour educational course, have the opportunity to spend a day with the Flight Crew on the aircraft.

Public Appearances
Our Flight For Life aircraft and staff are available for non-patient, public event appearances upon request. Please note that appearances are subject to cancellation without notice due to medical emergencies or inclement weather.

For more information on how Flight For Life can work for you, please click here or call (903) 531-4940 or (800) 441-8677.

Our Aircraft Fleet

Meet Our Crew

Dispatch Services
(903) 531-4940 or (800) 441-8677

Champion EMS
(800) 441-8677

Flight For Life Education
(903) 531-4560

Emergency Care Center – Tyler
800 E. Dawson
Tyler, Texas 75701
(903) 531-4262
Click here for map

Trauma Services
612 S. Fleishel
Tyler, Texas 75701
(903) 531-5560
Click here for map

Related Links
 Contact Flight For Life  Contact Flight For Life
 Flight For Life Staff  Flight For Life Staff
 Our Aircraft Fleet  Our Aircraft Fleet


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