Air Evac Lifeteam 179 - London, KY

10/31/2025

Witching you all a SAFE and SPOOKY Halloween!

As much as we love our broomsticks, they just don’t have the same lift as our helicopter. 🚁🧙‍♀️🖤🎃🧡

10/26/2025

If fun were a flight…..we’d be at cruising altitude!!! 🚁 👻💙🖤🧡

Two incredible community nights back-to-back!

Laurel County Sheriff’s Department and St. Joseph London- ✨Thanks✨ for letting us be part of your celebrations! This time again next year? 🗓️⁉️

10/24/2025

London City Fire secured the LZ with assistance from Laurel County EMS 🚒✨

We couldn’t do what we do in the air without the incredible crews on the ground.🚁 Y’all make it possible!!!

Thank you for helping us provide ACCESS when it matters most. ❤️🤍💙

10/21/2025

✨ Blessed and Grateful✨

Today, our crew brought Dorothy to St. Joseph London for their Blessing of the Rigs. We’re thankful for a community that prays over and supports all who serve and respond when seconds matter. 🚁 We are so thankful for our community. 🤍🤍🤍

10/21/2025

AEL 179 and AEL 3 took to the skies over Lexington, KY this evening. 🚁🚁

It’s not every day (or night) we cross paths with our AEL family—but when we do, it’s worth capturing the moment. 📸

10/19/2025

The women of Laurel County are PURE strength and resilience. On a rainy, windy, gloomy day, the city of London still showed up, ran, walked, and celebrated the incredible survivors and fighters who remind us what courage truly looks like.

There is quite literally nothing like this county in our beautiful state of Kentucky. 💕✨🏠😇 The unimaginable strength it takes is beyond comprehension.

10/09/2025

AE 179 would like to take a moment to send a special thank you and our deepest appreciation to our amazing flight nurses during Emergency Nurse’s Week.

From scene flights, the hospitals, and then to the skies, AE179 nurses embody the essence of what it means to be an emergency nurse. So this week in particular, but everyday, we appreciate the role they play in providing A.C.C.E.S.S to our communities.

Thank you for all you do!

10/09/2025

Join us in celebrating Brandon, our incredible Flight Paramedic at AEL179, for earning his FP-C (Flight Paramedic–Certified)!

This certification represents the highest level of knowledge, skill, and dedication in critical care and air medical transport — and Brandon has worked hard to achieve it. His commitment to excellence and patient care makes him an invaluable part of our team and a true asset to every mission.

We’re proud to fly alongside you, Brandon! 🩺🚁

10/09/2025

We are extremely fortunate to have established a strong working relationship with both our medical community and other local organizations. We are delighted to provide support for such a worthy cause and organization.

🌸💖 A huge thank you to Air Evac Lifeteam 179 - London, KY for sponsoring the 3rd Annual Dash For A Cure 5K / 1 Mile Fun Walk / Kids Dash for Breast Cancer! 💖🌸

Air Evac Lifeteam is the largest independently owned and operated membership-supported air ambulance service in the United States, proudly operating over 150 bases across 18 states. Their unwavering dedication to rural communities ensures that those who choose a rural lifestyle have the same emergency trauma care access as metropolitan areas. 🚁💪

With more than 90% of their aircraft based in rural areas, Air Evac is on a mission to provide lifesaving support whenever and wherever it is needed. Their incredible flight crews, made up of a pilot, flight nurse, and flight paramedic, are always ready to respond 7 days a week—whether it’s from the scene of an emergency or transferring patients between medical facilities.

🙏 Your commitment to helping rural Americans truly makes a difference, and your support for events like Dash for a Cure amplifies hope in the fight against breast cancer. Thank you for all that you do for our communities! 💕

Learn more about Air Evac Lifeteam and their great work: 👇 https://www.lifeteam.net/locations/air-evac-lifeteam-179

10/07/2025

Bethany, Butch & James will forever be in our hearts. Today is a heavy day, and we pause to take a moment to think of these amazing human beings who gave so much to this profession. We honor them every day, and we will continue to do so.

Last Call 10-7-2024
Bethany Aicken, Flight Nurse
Gale “Butch” Alleman, Pilot
James Welsh, Flight Paramedic

10/06/2025

🚨WINGS ALERT🚨

We invite you to join us in congratulating our newest crew member, Flight Paramedic Reanna Smith. Although Reanna is new to her role as a flight paramedic, she is familiar with the area. Reanna serves the Laurel Co community as a Paramedic with Ambulance Inc. Of Laurel County .

Flight Nurse Will Auxier presents her wings.

09/27/2025

The sun is shining bright on our old Kentucky home — casting the perfect light on the place we’re proud to call home and the helicopter we so affectionately call Dorothy. ☀️💙

We love our community and how much they share our appreciation of our beautiful bird. 🚁Thank you 📸: Keegan Rogers for capturing this video of our Dorothy leaving LEX Airport.