Over the worst periods of the floods, the three RAF Sea King crews rescued a total of 67 people. The crew of Rescue 122 from C Flight, 22 Squadron, RAF Valley, rescued 27 people over a marathon ...

An airman manning one of the last RAF rescue flights to leave Kabul has been lauded as a 'hero' after pictures emerged of him cradling the baby of an Afghan refugee too exhausted to hold her child.

Since official records began on 1 January 1983, RAF SAR helicopters in the UK have responded to a total of 34,122 callouts and have given life-saving assistance to 26,916 people. RAF SAR Force ...

The RAF is sending one in five of its helicopter crews from Britain's search and rescue service to Afghanistan. The crews will pilot helicopters serving British troops in Helmand Province. Helicopters ...

The Air Sea Rescue service, whose most famous pilot was Prince William, has saved tens of thousands of lives since it was formed in 1941 by an emergency committee headed by Arthur Harris, later ...

Two transatlantic rowers were successfully rescued at the end of last week after their vessel had capsized, and a Royal Air Force (RAF) Poseidon aircraft was an important part of the rescue efforts.

As the RAF Search and Rescue service is disbanded, Andrew English spends time with the last squadron and its Westland Sea King helicopter My wife used to cry when she saw the RAF’s Search and Rescue ...

The US Air Force's 56th and 57th Rescue squadrons will relocate from RAF Lakenheath to the Aviano air base in Italy as part of efforts to establish a long-term personnel recovery location in Europe.

The Duke of Cambridge's days as an RAF Sea King pilot are numbered following confirmation that Britain's search-and-rescue helicopter service is to be privatised. The £1.6 billion deal with ...

Technical problems with rescue helicopters at RAF Valley on Anglesey delayed the rescue of a stricken ship's crew, an accident report has said. An RAF helicopter from Yorkshire instead battled ...

THE Search and Rescue helicopter service at RAF Valley will be privatised. Transport chiefs announced the plans to turn it to a civilian-only service by 2016, the year the existing Sea King ...

Sarah Hassall spent time in Scotland while stationed at RAF Kinloss Tributes have been paid to a former Scottish-based RAF mountain rescue team member killed in Wales. Sarah Hassall, 38, died at a ...