[09-26-07 – Satellite Today] Iridium Satellite has signed contracts with four North American air ambulance and medical transportation fleets to provide mobile satellite communications services, the company announced Sept. 25.

Air Methods Corp., which provides air medical transport services for hospitals and communities in 42 states, and the California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue fleet are installing Sky Connect tracker systems for automatic flight following and cockpit voice and data communications.

Ornge, an Ontario-based aero-medical transport services provider, is installing Latitude Technologies’ Skynode S200 terminals on its fleet of Sikorsky S76 helicopters and King Air 200 fixed-wing aircraft.
Reach Air Medical Services has chosen SkyTrac Systems to provide Iridium-based automatic flight following and satellite communication solutions.