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ACE 2026 - September 8th

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Blugeon raises personnel-carrying capabilities
The HEC solution from Boost Systems offers a carrying capacity of 1,100 lbs and features a quick-install provisions kit. Blugeon Hélicoptères has selected the technology on the AS350.
The provisions kit can be installed or removed in minutes.

French rotary operator Blugeon Helicopteres has selected Boost Systems’ EASA-certified human external cargo (HEC) system, complete with the EASA-approved complex personnel carrying device systems (cPCDS), for its Airbus AS350/H125 aircraft.

“We are proud to be the first operator in France fully equipped with the EASA-certified Boost HEC system, complete with the complex personnel carrying device systems,” states Christian Blugeon, founder of Blugeon Helicopteres. “With Boost’s comprehensive HEC solution, we are now better prepared for aerial operations and confident we have the safest HEC system available in Europe.”

Boost’s HEC System for the AS350/355/H125 offers a carrying capacity of 1,100 lbs and features a provisions kit that installs quickly and easily. The mission kit, which includes the dual hook and load beam, can be installed or removed in minutes.

The complex personnel carrying device system was developed in partnership with Airwork & Heliseilerie and is available directly from A&H.

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