First Ansat equipped with new ambulance module
The Ansat helicopter used by the Republic’s Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of Tatarstan has been upgraded. It was equipped with a new ambulance module with increased convenience of patient loading. The work was done by the UVT Aero airline with the participation of experts from Kazan Helicopters.
The new ambulance module manufactured by the Kazan Aggregate Plant features a modified layout that facilitates patient loading and unloading.
In Tatarstan, 184 Ansat medical evacuations were performed in 2020. For the first time, patients injured in road accidents were evacuated outside the republic. The helicopter flew to the Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, and Kirov regions.
Ansat is a light twin-engine multirole helicopter, serial production of which has been established at the Kazan Helicopters. In May 2015, an addition to the type certificate was obtained for a modification of the medevac helicopter. In August 2018, based on the results of the certification work, the Federal Air Transport Agency issued approval to the Kazan Helicopters for a major modification to increase the resources of a number of Ansat units and systems. In February 2020, aviation authorities of Russia certified the installation of a ditching system on Ansat.
The airline successfully operates in the PPP format performing a job package for the air ambulance needs. For the maintenance of the Ansat helicopter, the UVT Aero has done a lot of work to train engineering and technical personnel, conduct personnel training, and acquire the necessary equipment.