About us
Who we are
Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) is an independent charity providing a life-saving rapid response emergency service to 5 million people across the whole of Yorkshire. Operational seven days a week, 365 days a year, the Charity currently attends over 1,300 missions a year, with an average of 4 incidents every single day.
YAA currently operates two helicopters – one based at Nostell Air Support Unit, near Wakefield, with the second based at RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk.
Equality, diversity and inclusion policy
We encourage applications from all backgrounds and groups – we value equality, diversity and inclusion in all our employment practices, including recruitment, selection and induction.





