Organisers of the Airborne Response Conference, taking place at Oxford Airport on May 10 and 11, have updated the line-up of aircraft that will be making guest appearances, as well as releasing further details of the conference programme.

Gloucestershire-based Specialist Aviation Services and its subsidiaries, Police Aviation Services, Medical Aviation Services, and the West Midlands County Air Ambulance, will be showing the MD Explorer and EC-135. The Dyfed/Powys E109 Power will no longer be able to attend.

Serge Divounguy, chief of the air transport section for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN, will be presenting a case study on the co-ordination of airborne services in response to the Tsunami disaster. At the same time, Chief Superintendent Simon Humphrey of the Metropolitan Police will also be participating in the event.