Metro hits the magic one million flight hours mark

In January, a Metro Aviation helicopter belonging to Indiana University Health lifted off and marked the one-millionth flight hour for the air medical operator.

This achievement follows another significant milestone the company achieved last year: its 40th anniversary.

“This is a huge accomplishment for the entire Metro family,” said Metro Vice President, Todd Stanberry. “It’s the continued commitment of not just our pilots and technicians, but our customers, their communication centers, our records department, admin and management, and the thousands of people that have trusted us over the years.”

Metro is a family-owned air medical business, that operates and maintains 170 aircraft for 43 programs across the US.

Stanberry added: “There are incredible stories behind every minute of these one million flight hours.  Within them, we have flown 704,228 patients who wouldn’t have otherwise received the care they needed and deserved. But it doesn’t stop there. The number of lives positively impacted as a result of all the work that went into flying that many hours is untold. 

“From the first hour logged from a single-wide trailer in 1982 to the millionth hour logged, there have been thousands of folks involved, all working tirelessly and proudly. They don’t do it because we told them to. They do it because they love it.”

Metro recently delivered an EC135 to Health First in Florida.