EastCare endured a tragedy in its early years as well, with one of its helicopters that crashed in 1987. As one of the original EastCare flight nurses, Mary Joe Nimmo worked alongside those killed ...

In early 1970, the Army got in on the action, when the Richard H. Bitter Chapter of the Army Aviation Association of America donated a UH1 helicopter, colloquially known as a Huey, to the city for ...