Civil Air Support
Serving The Community
Category: Urgent Transport
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Civil Air Support (CAS) has supported British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and the Port of London Authority (PLA) in a major multi-agency operation to monitor and protect a pod of around 25 long-finned pilot whales which entered the Thames Estuary. The unusual presence of the whales in the tidal Thames created a significant risk…
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Civil Air Support has once again put volunteer aviation at the service of wildlife conservation, flying six young white-tailed eagles from the Scottish Highlands to Exmoor ahead of their landmark release into the National Park. The mission, completed in mid-June 2026, supported the continuing white-tailed eagle reintroduction programme led by Forestry England and the Roy…
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Three charities, one mission, and a race against the clock — Civil Air Support’s Transport Group once again proved the power of teamwork and aviation for good.
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Civil Air Support, the UK’s leading volunteer aviation charity, is proud to announce its continued involvement in one of the most significant wildlife conservation efforts in recent history: the reintroduction of White-Tailed Eagles to southern England. In July 2023 Forestry England and the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation announced that their project to return this species…
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"The ‘not so good’ news was that once prepared, the material has an extremely short shelf life. With the time it takes to transport via road and then ferry to get from Birmingham to the Isle of Wight, you have a problem!"
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Freak weather events can cause humans and wild animals to find themselves in precarious and often life-threatening positions with almost no warning. When such circumstances arise and tragic outcomes are feared, Civil Air Support Operations Managers anticipate the demand for their services and prepare their crews to standby. Storms Babet and Ciarán contributed to October…
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Civil Air Support were alerted to the mass stranding of a pod of 55 pilot whales near Stornoway on Sunday morning. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) mobilised specialist Marine Mammal Medics with the skills and equipment needed to assist local experts already at the scene, but the logistics of getting them from their mainland bases to…
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Raptor enthusiasts are ecstatic that a small breeding colony of Britain’s biggest bird of prey has become established in England again, having successfully hatched a healthy eaglet for the first time since 1780. Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation and Forestry England began the process of restoring the breeding population by translocating young white-tailed eagles from Scotland…
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Healthcare professionals have always promoted breast milk as the optimal source of infant nutrition and immune protection, but when mother and baby are separated by more than 220 miles of land and open sea, presenting baby to her mother’s breast is simply not an option! This became the case for a young mother at a…
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Civil Air Support (CAS) and SERV Wessex (a member organisation of the National Association of Blood Bikes) have united once again to deliver time-critical blood stem cells from a healthy donor in Salisbury District Hospital to a waiting patient in Newcastle Upon Tyne. With the NHS and Emergency Services under considerable pressure through the Covid…