Licensing and Regulatory Status

The licence

Med Jets USA, Inc. DBA Jet Rescue Air Ambulance holds air ambulance licence AIR9505, issued by the Florida Department of Health.

Licence number: AIR9505
Issuing authority: Florida Department of Health
Licence type: EMS Service Provider – Air
Qualification: Interfacility
Status: Clear
Originally issued: 06/12/2017
Current expiration: 06/11/2027
Discipline on file: None

Verify this licence on the State of Florida public register →

We are the only Mexican air ambulance company that holds one

Mexican operators fly into Florida regularly. Holding a Florida Department of Health air ambulance licence is a different matter: it means the State of Florida has reviewed and licensed the service as an EMS air provider, and continues to regulate it. Jet Rescue is the only Mexican air ambulance company that holds that licence.

We state it here with the licence number and a link to the State of Florida’s own register so that you do not have to take our word for it.

Why a licence is not the same as an accreditation

These two things are routinely presented as if they were equivalent. They are not.

An accreditation is awarded by a private membership body. Providers apply, pay, and display the badge. Standards vary between bodies, renewal is a private matter, and in most cases there is no public register where a hospital or an insurer can independently confirm that the accreditation is current.

A licence is issued by a government regulator with statutory authority. It can be suspended or revoked. It carries an expiry date, a compliance history and a disciplinary record, and all of it sits on a public register that anyone can search.

When you are deciding who moves a patient, the question worth asking is not which badges a provider displays. It is which of those claims you can verify yourself, from the issuing authority, in under a minute.

Corporate structure

MED JETS S.A. de C.V. is the Mexican operator and holds Mexican air operator certificate AOC MTS/2015. It operates the aircraft.

Med Jets USA, Inc. is a sister company that does not operate aircraft. It acts as an indirect air carrier under U.S. DOT Order 83-1-36, and it is the entity that holds Florida licence AIR9505.

Jet Rescue Air Ambulance has flown patients since 1994, and MED JETS S.A. de C.V. was incorporated in 1996.

For case managers, insurers and procurement

If your organisation requires documented evidence of licensure before authorising a transport, the Florida register link above is the primary source and is sufficient for most files. If you need the licence certificate itself, a certificate of insurance, or the Mexican AOC for a file, our operations desk will send them the same day.