Emergency Airlift

What Emergency Airlift does

Emergency Airlift, Inc. is a privately held U.S. air ambulance operator headquartered in Klamath Falls, Oregon, specializing in long-range critical care and emergency medical transport. The company was founded in 1994 (firmographic data references 2005 but the company's own materials and over-30-years operational claim confirm 1994) and is led by President/CEO Ed Langerveld. Emergency Airlift owns and operates a fleet of six medically configured Dassault Falcon tri-jet aircraft (five Falcon 50s and one Falcon 900), maintained in-house at a 45,000-square-foot facility, and staffs each mission with its own flight nurses, paramedics, and critical care specialists under a 24/7 dispatch model.

The company serves three primary customer segments: hospitals and healthcare systems requiring inter-facility transfers and repatriations; individual patients and families needing urgent cross-border or overwater evacuation; and insurance providers and medical case managers coordinating complex logistics. Service reach spans the United States (with bases in Oregon, Hawaii, and Nevada), Mexico, Asia/South Pacific, and worldwide destinations, with explicit capability and infrastructure for extended overwater missions such as Hawaii emergency transport via the Falcon tri-jet's three-engine redundancy. Core technical assets include advanced life support equipment (ventilators, cardiac monitors, infusion pumps), onboard pharmacy, stretcher and electric lift systems, and the Falcon 900's ultra-long-range capability exceeding 4,500 miles for up to four stretcher patients.

Emergency Airlift generates revenue through one-time, quote-based fees per air ambulance mission. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; each mission is individually priced based on patient acuity, distance, aircraft type, and medical team composition. The full payment for patient responsibility is required before dispatch. The go-to-market model is sales-led and direct-to-consumer, relying on 24/7 phone dispatch lines (+1-888-988-4911 domestic, +1-541-882-4643 international) and a website quote-request form, with secondary marketing via social channels (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter) and a company blog. Operations are ARGUS-certified and conducted under FAR Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate #LDIA742M.

Name

Emergency Airlift

Legal name

Emergency Airlift, Inc.

Website

https://emergencyairlift.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Emergency Airlift is a privately held U.S. air ambulance operator providing long-range critical care medical transport for hospitals, patients/families, and insurance case managers using a self-owned fleet of six Dassault Falcon tri-jet aircraft maintained in-house in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Air Ambulance Services

NAICS

Nonscheduled Air Transportation (4812), Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation (481219)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Air Medical Transport (Helicopter/Fixed-Wing) (HLAFANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Air Ambulance & Medical Passenger Charter Operators (THABADAK), Emergency Response, Assistance & Medical Evacuation Services (THACAEAC)

Keywords

• Air ambulance services
• Medical air transport
• Critical care transport
• International medical evacuation
• Interfacility patient transfer

Headquarters

HQ city

Klamath Falls

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Air Ambulance Transport Services: Emergency Airlift generates revenue through one-time service fees charged per air ambulance transport mission. Pricing is quote-based, determined by patient care needs, distance, aircraft type, and medical team composition. The company also handles ground ambulance arrangements and medical clearances as part of the full-service transport package. Revenue is event-driven per transport rather than recurring in nature.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Emergency Airlift provides long-range air ambulance transport services using an owned fleet of Dassault Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 tri-jet aircraft configured as fully equipped airborne ICUs for critical and emergency medical transport. Services include bedside-to-bedside patient transfer coordination, advanced in-flight critical care staffed by flight nurses, paramedics, and critical care specialists, and worldwide operations spanning the United States, Mexico, Asia, South Pacific, and Hawaii. The company operates 24/7 dispatch, in-house aircraft maintenance, and per-mission quote-based pricing for medical evacuations, inter-facility transfers, and international repatriation.

Product overview

Emergency Airlift is a premier provider of long-range air ambulance services operating the largest fleet of medically configured Dassault Falcon tri-jet aircraft (Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 models) in North America. The company offers a unified air ambulance service combining advanced critical care medical transport with its own aircraft fleet, in-house maintenance, and 24/7 flight coordination. Services include bedside-to-bedside patient transfers, ground ambulance coordination, international medical evacuations, and emergency transport across the United States, Mexico, Hawaii, Asia/South Pacific, and worldwide destinations. The product portfolio centers on the core air ambulance service supported by the Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 aircraft fleets, backed by in-house maintenance capabilities and a 24/7 communications center for seamless mission coordination.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Air Ambulance Services Long-range critical and emergency medical air transport services using a fleet of Dassault Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 tri-jet aircraft, providing bedside-to-bedside care 24/7 worldwide for hospitals, case managers, insurance providers, patients, and families needing urgent medical evacuation, inter-facility transfer, or international repatriation.
• Falcon 50 Air Ambulance Transport Super-midsize tri-jet air ambulance transport using Dassault Falcon 50 aircraft, designed for long-range missions including overwater flights to Hawaii and other geographically isolated regions, configured with onboard medical stretcher, electric lift system, and advanced life support equipment.
• Falcon 900 Ultra-Long-Range Air Ambulance Transport Heavy-category ultra-long-range air ambulance transport using the Dassault Falcon 900, featuring a larger cabin, nearly twice the range of the Falcon 50, capacity for up to four stretcher patients, range of more than 4,500 miles, and a lower cabin altitude that reduces passenger stress and fatigue on extended missions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Near 100% dispatch reliability enabled by in-house maintenance operations
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• International SOS: International SOS is a global medical and security assistance company with air ambulance capability embedded in a broader travel risk and duty-of-care platform—overlapping with Emergency Airlift's corporate/insurer customer segment.
• PHI Air Medical: PHI is one of the largest US air medical providers with a predominantly rotor-wing and short-range fixed-wing fleet; it is a broader incumbent whose scale and hospital contracts pose competitive pressure on Emergency Airlift's domestic fixed-wing business.

Direct peers

• MedJetAssist: MedJetAssist is a membership-based air medical transport and repatriation provider serving individuals and families—directly overlapping with Emergency Airlift's patients-and-families segment, though with a recurring-membership revenue model rather than per-mission billing.
• Jet Rescue Air Ambulance: Jet Rescue operates a fleet of medically configured jets providing international air ambulance services out of Mexico and the US, directly competing in the cross-border repatriation corridor that Emergency Airlift serves.
• REVA Air Ambulance: REVA operates one of the largest dedicated fixed-wing air ambulance fleets in the Americas, providing long-range international medical repatriation on Learjet and Challenger platforms—the closest like-for-like competitor to Emergency Airlift in long-range international medevac.
• AirMed International: AirMed International provides worldwide fixed-wing air ambulance and medical escort services with a comparable global, bedside-to-bedside operating model and similar customer base of hospitals, insurers, and families.
• Global Jetcare: Global Jetcare provides worldwide long-range air ambulance transport on dedicated medically configured aircraft, with a comparable focus on international patient repatriation and bedside-to-bedside service.

Regional players

• AMREF Flying Doctors: AMREF Flying Doctors provides fixed-wing air ambulance across Africa with international repatriation capability, a comparable long-range air ambulance model though serving a different continent.
• Life Flight Network: Life Flight Network is a large not-for-profit air ambulance operator in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West, overlapping geographically with Emergency Airlift's Oregon and Nevada bases though primarily rotor-wing and short-range fixed-wing.
• CALSTAR (California Shock Trauma Air Rescue): CALSTAR is a regional rotor-wing air ambulance provider in California and the western US, overlapping with Emergency Airlift's western US footprint but focused on scene response rather than long-range international transport.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/EmergencyAirlift
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/emergency-airlift-inc
• Instagraminstagram.com/emergencyairlift
• Xx.com/emergncairlift

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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