Search & Rescue specialist joins 2Excel Aviation
Aimee Neale has joined 2Excel Aviation as Project Manager for Special Missions Search & Rescue (SAR), based at Lydd Airport, Kent.
Aimee will lead a team of Project Officers to work on delivery of fixed wing aerospace services for the MCA second generation Search & Rescue (SAR2G) aviation contract on behalf of His Majesty’s Coastguard, as part of the partnership between 2Excel Aviation, Bristow Helicopters Ltd and Nova Systems.
Aimee, who hails from Kent, has extensive maritime experience, including crewing a super yacht in the Caribbean, followed by more than 25 years’ experience in UK Search & Rescue.
She was the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) very first female lifeboat trainer, and then spent 18 years with HM Coastguard, including ten years as a Watch Officer, rising to the role of Tactical Commander at the UK’s national maritime command and control centre in Southampton where she took charge of the UK National SAR, and finally as Station Commander at Dover.
Aimee said: “I am looking forward to driving the SAR2G project for 2Excel Aviation and seeing the UK’s search and rescue region benefit from the innovation and advances in technology to save more lives, even more quickly.”
