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Search and rescue helicopter statistics

Data and statistics about the number of civilian search and rescue helicopter activity in the United Kingdom.

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From:
Department for Transport and Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Published:
18 November 2015
Last updated:
10 June 2025
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  1. Search and rescue helicopter statistics for the year ending March 2025 published.

  2. Search and rescue helicopter statistics for the year ending March 2024 published.

  3. Latest SARH statistics for the year ending March 2023 added to collections page.

  4. Search and rescue helicopter bi-annual statistics for April to September 2022 added.

  5. Search and rescue helicopter annual statistics for the year ending March 2022 added.

  6. Search and rescue helicopter bi-annual statistics for April to September 2021 added.

  7. Search and rescue helicopter statistics annual for year ending March 2021 added to the collection.

  8. Collection page updated for the Search and rescue helicopter bi-annual statistics, April to September 2020 report. Pre-release access list as a HTML page attachment added to collection.

  9. Collection page updated for Search and rescue helicopter annual statistics, year ending March 2020.

  10. Collection page updated for Search and rescue helicopter bi-annual statistics: April to September 2019 and National Statistics information.

  11. New release published - annual statistics for year ending March 2019.

  12. New release published for October to December 2018 data.

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  16. New release published and text summary updated.

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Latest search and rescue helicopter statistics

Statistics on civilian search and rescue helicopter (SARH) taskings for the UK, with breakdowns by tasking type, location type (land, maritime or coast) and helicopter base. The data are derived from information recorded by the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC), who are responsible for the coordination of search and rescue helicopters.

Search and rescue and helicopter information on current and previous search and rescue helicopter statistics are available.

Interactive search and rescue helicopter statistics dashboard: explore the data via our dashboard - covering SARH taskings from April 2015 onwards.

About the search and rescue helicopter data and reports

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