Medevac Helicopter Fagging
Sometimes we suspect medevac choppers are being used for extractions. Often these are type EC35 (Europcopter, Lakota) on which military pilots are trained. Also EC30, EC45.
You can often tell it's a medevac by the owner's name. Failing that, by a photo of the chopper; air ambulances are prominently marked.
When sorting medevacs the following Reg. No. suffixes are often chosen by medevac owners:
AM = Air Methods (co. name)
PH = Phi Air Med (co. name)
ME = MEdevac
MT = Med transport
LF = life flight
ER = emerg room
RX = med
MH = med helicopter.
We are compiling a list of known US medevac choppers. Attached list is just a first stab to get the list started.
Try ADSB with filters MIL=OFF, species=helicopter. When suspect is ID'd, click that chopper's flightaware link to open flightaware tracking.
Or try Flightradar24 with 1 filter, type=EC35. Use Multi-Select (upper right corner) to select up to 4 helicopter dots at once and display their ownership. Change settings to display either just Reg. No. or just Callsign. No-callsign "blocked" does not necessarily mean anything and if you change it to display to Reg. No., at least you can input that chopper's Reg. No. into flightaware for tracking.
On flightaware you can zoom into the map and actually see exactly where it lands and takes off, near a hospital, military base, residential address, middle of nowhere, etc. Chopper tracking often disappears a few hundred feet elevation before landing though. Watch the altimeter to decide if it's fixing to land and screencap before it disappears.
MedevacFagging is an advanced level of planefagging and it's definitely an acquired skill with a learning curve.
Hope this helps somebody.
Over.