On call 24 hours a day, every day of the year, 771 Squadron provides Search and Rescue cover across the South West.

Regularly in the news and currently featured in the BBC’s Blue Peter, Seaside Rescue and Real Rescue programs, you may have seen their red and grey helicopters on daring rescue missions. Every year they save many lives in some of the most hazardous conditions imaginable, often putting their own lives at risk.

771 also delivered the Olympic Flame to Lands End to start the 2012 Olympic relay and is perhaps best known as the aircraft flown by Prince William.