Heliraft Aviation Liferaft

Mission-Validated Life Support for Helicopter Crews

The Heliraft Aviation Liferaft is expertly designed to offer reliable life-saving capabilities for passengers and crew during helicopter emergencies. Emphasising reduced weight for more efficient fuel, cargo, and passenger capacity, this liferaft is configured for carriage on rotary-wing aircraft. Built to withstand harsh environments, it provides rapid inflation, full reversibility, and advanced entry features, ensuring high survivability in critical situations.

Performance

In aviation, performance means more than function, it means readiness under pressure. Our lifejackets and crew safety systems are engineered for rapid deployment, reliable flotation, and operational endurance across both civil and military platforms. Whether supporting commercial aviation or tactical flight operations, they deliver consistent, trusted performance when it counts.

Innovation

We advance crew safety through continuous innovation in design, materials and survivability technology. From lightweight lifejackets for civil aviation to high-performance systems for rotary and fixed-wing aircrew, our products are shaped by real-world feedback, evolving regulatory requirements and a commitment to continually raising the standard in aircrew protection.

Protection

Crew protection is central to safe and effective aviation. Our life-saving systems are designed to perform in high-stress, high-consequence environments, providing flotation, thermal protection and secure fit across a range of mission and commercial profiles. Certified and rigorously tested, they help protect lives at altitude, on approach, or in emergency descent.

Product Benefits

High Survivability:
The advanced design ensures rapid inflation, easy boarding, and full reversibility, maximising survivability in emergency scenarios.

Compact and Lightweight:
Reduces overall weight, allowing for greater fuel efficiency and increased passenger or cargo capacity on helicopters.

Reliability Across Temperatures:
Provides dependable operation in various weather conditions, ensuring the raft’s usability in global operations.

Key Features

Rapid Inflation:
Fully operational and boardable in under 60 seconds, offering fast and reliable protection.

Full Reversibility:
Uniquely designed to ensure the liferaft is always the right way up, regardless of how it lands in the water.

Improved Entry System:
Features an inflatable reversible boarding ramp for optimal access from the water, ensuring swift and easy boarding.

Internal and External Stowages:
Customised to comply with JAR OPS 3 helicopter regulations, providing efficient storage solutions.

Open Platform Design:
Enhances the boarding and rescue phases, making the raft easily accessible during emergencies.

Reliable in All Conditions:
Engineered to perform optimally in all temperatures, with an excellent performance-to-weight ratio.

Essential Survival Packs:
Includes emergency packs with essential survival aids, ensuring passengers are prepared for prolonged survival situations.

High Survivability:

The advanced design ensures rapid inflation, easy boarding, and full reversibility, maximising survivability in emergency scenarios.

Compact and Lightweight:

Reduces overall weight, allowing for greater fuel efficiency and increased passenger or cargo capacity on helicopters.

Reliability Across Temperatures:

Provides dependable operation in various weather conditions, ensuring the raft’s usability in global operations.

EASA-approved, compliant with JAR OPS 3 helicopter safety standards.

Technical Specification

Capacity:	Available in multiple sizes, including 7, 10, 14, and 18-person configurations, with overload capacities ranging from 11 to 27 persons.
Activation:	Manual
Packed Weight:	Ranges from 28 kg to 51 kg, depending on the model.
Compliance:	Certified under EASA Form 1 for aviation standards.
Warranty:	12 months, with recommended overhaul every 12 months.