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Helicopter Traffic Around NIH Campus: Going Up |
| By Belle Waring |
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A frequent flyer around the Bethesda campus is the EC AS-65, a medical evacuation helicopter. |
Choppers! Their sound is unmistakable, their profile unforgettable. When you hear that whap-whap-whap as they skirt the Bethesda campus, you might wonder if air traffic is increasing. It is.
The campus is in the approach and departure pattern of two active heliports:
to the east, the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC); and to the west, Suburban Hospital.
“The increase in helicopter traffic,” says Office of Community Liaison Director
Dennis Coleman, “coincides with two trends.”
First, air transport has become a trauma-care standard; as part of Maryland’s
Trauma Center Network, Suburban Hospital is regularly visited by helicopters
operated by the Maryland State Police, as well as 3 state-licensed private air ambulance services.
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