ei7dar Kinloss Rescue Centre
RAF Search and Rescue organisation was established formally in 1941 to aid all military aircrew in trouble over land or sea while training or on operations. By the end of World War II more than 8000 aircrew and 5000 civilians had been rescued. In the five decades since then more than 55,000 people have been rescued by the RAF, Royal Navy and HM Coastguard helicopter crews, and RAF Mountain Rescue Teams based around the UK.
Area covered by Kinloss rescue
ARCC Kinloss co-ordinates all SAR incidents within the UK search and Rescue region. This region extends to the Faeroes in the North, to the Median boundaries of continental Europe in the South and East, and to mid Atlantic in the West. The total area is a little over one million square miles of land and ocean.