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Metro Celebrates One Million Flight Hours
By: Mark Huber
Caption: Metro marks millionth flight hour since 1982.
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Metro Aviation (Booth C4012) celebrated its one millionth flight hour at this year’s Heli-Expo. Metro operates a fleet of 170 air ambulances for 43 hospital programs nationwide and employs more than 1,000. The record-setting flight took place on January 6 in an Airbus EC145 Metro operates for Indiana University Health. Metro estimates that it has flown 704,228 patients since its founding in 1982.