EMERGCO® is a Canadian company based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1994, EMERGCO® has become a world leader in creating innovative techniques and equipment for human external cargo (HEC) load operations for light to medium sized category helicopters. Our research and development section consists of airborne operatives/practitioners, pilots, and qualified design engineers with many years of aeronautical design and engineering experience. We use the latest computer aided design (CAD) and engineering analysis software to optimize the products we manufacture. Our products meet the needs of the airborne operative/practitioner who uses the equipment in the field. In addition, we are fully equipped with the latest digital video production facilities for analysis and training purposes. Our laboratory is the Coastal Mountain Range. Our testing and evaluation teams do their work in real world conditions.

Manufacturing and Distribution

EMERGCO® holds a number of Transport Canada Civil Aviation–issued Supplementary Type Certificates (STCs) for aerial human external cargo products and is currently in the approval process for a number of US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued STCs. We are a Transport Canada Approved Manufacturing Organization for aerospace products under DOT Approval Number 96-99. EMERGCO® manufactures and distributes a variety of external load cargo equipment for helicopter Human External Cargo (HEC) and Non-human External Cargo (NHEC) lifting operations, including:

• Fixed Line (Shorthaul) equipment approved for Class D and Class B Helicopter External Cargo operations




• Personal carrying devices (i.e. airworthiness approved - harnesses, strops, patient carrying devices)






• Cargo nets
• Synthetic rope longlines and wire rope assemblies






• Lanyards
• Remote Cargo hooks and swivels





• Accessories such as communications, medical, survival, and ground-based technical and work access equipment

All of our equipment meets either mandated regulatory standards and/or advisory circulars such as 14 CFR Part 27.865 or 29.865 or FAA issued TSO C-167 for HEC external cargo load equipment, the US Forest Service Standard 5100-500 for NHEC external load equipment and NFPA and CE standards for the personal protection and work access equipment.