>>2266995

When helo owner is listed as a bank, I feel an additional step may be needed to ascertain ownership. Because the bank may be the owner of record; the operator may have gotten a bank loan to purchase the helo.

Here's an example of that:

N419AE owner Regions Equip Finance, operator Air Evac LifeTeam EMS Columbus, OH

N4558MT Owner TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc Trustee, EMS EC35. Operator: Erlanger Medical Ctr

N601MT owner: People’s Capital & Leasing / Operator: Childrens Hospital EMS EC35 Chapel Hill, NC

Unfortunately owner vs. operator is not always that clear-cut.

>>2267130

I hate to be obstinate but why do you think the combination of police and medevac might signify an extraction?

Let's say there's a car wreck. There might be a police chopper and an air ambulance called to the scene.

Or an armed robbery where somebody gets hurt. They call an air ambulance for the victim, and maybe a police chopper to look for the perps who ran off?

I used to live in a place that well positioned to receive lots of police radio on the VHF band, and we used to listen to some of the incidents. In jurisdictions that are very well equipped and have helos, they do call in a chopper with a searchlight when they are trying to locate criminals fleeing from an incident.

I honor your intuition and experience but am trying to make sense of patterns that will be DEFINITE proof of extractions, and haven't seen any yet, despite trying.

A chopper is dispatched to a location – it flies there from the nearest regional airport or hospital parking lot and lands. You zoom in and see, perhaps, a highway or a neighborhood, not an exact address. Then the chopper takes off and flies to a city and lands in the parking lot near a big building that matches the description of 'hospital' but is unidentified. To me, that is a medevac.

What are we looking for that would have a different signature than a routine medevac?

Help me learn how to do this better.

R7