Guardian Air

Guardian Air, a division of Flagstaff Medical Center, is an emergency air ambulance company. We provide 24-hour, seven-day-a-week helicopter and airplane service to the state of Arizona, the Southwest region and the Native American Nations. Guardian Air believes that each flight mission is as individual as the patient. As patient care providers, we work cooperatively with other departments and facilities to deliver optimal patient care.

The medical flight team includes registered nurses, respiratory therapists and paramedics who are under the direction of four licensed medical directors. Crewmembers are required to maintain a high level of fitness to respond to scene and hospital-to-hospital transports around the clock. The team is cross-trained to provide specialty care for adult, pediatric, maternal and neonatal patients. They also are skilled in the management of advanced airway ventilators, intra-aortic balloon pumps, and isolettes.

Guardian Air operates a dedicated 800 telephone line for physician and/or referring parties to request transport services. A communication specialist/transport coordinator is available at all times to initiate a mission, serve as mission control, broadcast information, coordinate transport and flight following.

Three pressurized fixed-wing airplanes and three emergency medical service helicopters, equipped with night vision goggles, provide facility-to-facility transports and on-scene response throughout Arizona, as well as long distance transports to various regions of the United States. Each year, Guardian Air responds to approximately 3,000 calls for service.

City	Type of transportation available
Kingman	Helicopter
Cottonwood	Helicopter
Flagstaff	Helicopter / Fixed-wing
Winslow	Fixed-wing
Show Low	Fixed-wing