Their services include the Wellington-based BK117 Westpac Rescue Helicopter, as well as two nationwide J32 Jetstream air ambulance planes that transport patients who are critically ill and in need of hospital transfer for specialist care.

[1][2][3] In 1975, Peter Button and Dr Russell Worth launched The Life Flight Trust, which would go on to save over 36,000 New Zealanders.

[10] Life Flight's J32 Jetstream air ambulance, ZK-LFW, replaced their older Metroliner plane in 2012.

He commented that calls involving premature babies were often the most rewarding, as he was often able to see how much they had grown when later flying them home after weeks in hospital incubators.

[12][13] Other fundraising events are often put on by Life Flight itself[14] and funds are also raised by word of mouth, online donations, and telemarketing.