National Police Air Service Archives

Photo of GWAAC crew with air ambulance G-GWAC on the apron of the new Almondsbury air base

Saturday 1st December 2018 SH (Editor)

Air ambulance and police chopper now operating out of new Almondsbury base

Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) has taken up tenancy of a new air base in Almondsbury. The move is a huge milestone for the charity, which had previously been operating from a hangar at the former Filton Airfield. The air ambulance has been joined at the new site by the local police helicopter, which was also previously based at

Proposed new helicopter base for the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and National Police Air Service in Almondsbury, Bristol.

Saturday 2nd April 2016 SH (Editor)

Almondsbury helibase decision quashed

South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) has chosen to quash its decision to grant planning permission for a new helicopter base in Almondsbury, on a green belt site just across the M5 motorway from north Bradley Stoke, following a legal challenge from a determined objector. The new base would serve the needs of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and National Police

Helicopter of the the Western Counties Air Operations Unit.

Monday 6th July 2015 Mary Hawksworth (Forum)

[Letter] No objection to proposed helibase

With reference to the article in the June edition of the BSJ magazine concerning the proposed new helicopter base at Almondsbury (‘Councillors demand noise barrier if new helicopter base approved’), I live at Woodlands Park and have no objections whatsoever to the siting of the new base. We have lived here for eight years and have never been troubled by

Thursday 18th June 2015 SH (Editor)

MP calls public meeting to discuss helicopter base planning application

Jack Lopresti, MP for Filton and Bradley Stoke, has called a public meeting to discuss a planning application for a new operations base for the Great Western Air Ambulance and the police helicopter which has been submitted for a green belt site in Almondsbury, just across the M5 motorway from the RAC building in north Bradley Stoke. The public meeting will be held

Thursday 11th June 2015 Julian Stinton (Forum)

[Forum] Almondsbury helibase: Air ambulance chief’s comments challenged

In response to the previous Journal news article ‘Councillors demand noise barrier if new helicopter base approved‘. Thank goodness for Caroline Sullivan raising this matter with the people of Bradley Stoke. The Great Western Air Ambulance is a superb adjunct to the NHS in saving lives in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset and Bristol.

Tuesday 9th June 2015 SH (Editor)

Councillors demand noise barrier if new helicopter base approved

Bradley Stoke town councillors have demanded the provision of noise attenuation barriers for Woodlands Park and Ormonds Close should plans for a new helicopter base near the Almondsbury Interchange be approved by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC). The new base would serve the needs of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) and National Police Air Service (NPAS), whose helicopters are currently based

Tuesday 19th May 2015 SH (Editor)

Parish and town councils to discuss Almondsbury Interchange helicopter base plans

Parish councils in Almondsbury and Bradley Stoke are to discuss a controversial planning application for a proposed new helicopter base on on green belt land close to the M4/M5 junction, just across the M5 motorway from the RAC building in north Bradley Stoke. The new base would serve the needs of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and National Police Air Service, whose

Monday 13th April 2015 SH (Editor)

Plan for new helicopter base near Almondsbury Interchange

Property consultants Alder King have announced the selection of a preferred site for a new helicopter base to serve the needs of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity and National Police Air Service. Currently based at Filton Airfield, the air ambulance and police helicopter service has been looking for a new site for their joint helicopter base since last September.