BY JOHN CROPLEY, The Daily Gazette

GLENVILLE — Air ambulance service REVA on Tuesday showed off upgrades to its Glenville-based aircraft.

The ribbon-cutting was a bit belated, for the two longer-range jets have been operating out the Schenectady County Airport for months. But the Florida company wasn’t holding out for warm weather — it has been flying patients so often it was hard to get everyone together in the same place at the same time.

As it was, one of the two planes was on the way back from Colombia by way of Haiti on Tuesday.

CEO Stuart Hayman noted the late summer and early autumn were very busy for REVA, as it assisted with relief during the busy 2017 hurricane season, which also left the company’s facilities in Florida and Puerto Rico damaged. Glenville-based crews flew missions to St. Thomas and San Juan during this period, he said.

In November 2015, REVA announced it would create a Northeast operations base in Glenville. It initially stationed a single Learjet here, then upgraded to the larger Hawker 800XP, which can fly up to 2,500 miles without refueling. A second Hawker was later added.

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