With 183 road vehicles and 79 aircraft, the RFDS fleet is transporting hundreds of patients everyday. | Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

This week we celebrated Royal Flying Doctors Day, which marks the anniversary of the first RFDS flight in Australia on May 17, 1928. The RFDS's courageousness is legendary, and their daily adventures in the outback were dramatised in ‘The Flying Doctors’, one of the biggest Australian TV shows of the late 1980s. Set in the fictional town of Coopers Crossing and featuring a cast including Andrew McFarlane, Peter O'Brien, Liz Burch, and David Reyne, the series is based on the work and lives of the

On this day - 93 years ago - John Flynn's 'Flying Doctor' scheme conducted its inaugural flight in 'Victory', a single engine timber and fabric bi-plane leased from Qantas for two shillings per mile flown. A total of 225 patients were airlifted in that first year. How far we have come! | Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia