Helicopter helmet bags for pilots and crew
A round 20-litre helicopter helmet bag built around a flight helmet: one zipped main compartment, a side pocket, a transparent A5 document pocket and a velcro panel with four patch slots for name tags and crew branding. Blue and grey ship from Denmark; a crew can have its own colour made from 20 pieces, with logo print or embroidery applied by NVQ.
Choosing a helmet bag
Why a helmet bag is round
A flight helmet is the most expensive single item a crew member carries and the easiest to damage in transit: a visor scratched against a zip, a shell dented under a kit bag, comms leads crushed at the bottom of a holdall. A dedicated helmet bag exists to give the helmet its own space, upright, with nothing pressing on it.
The EMG Helmet Bag is a round 20-litre bag, 33 cm across and 33 cm high, built around exactly that — one large zipped main compartment sized for a flight or work helmet, so the helmet sits centred rather than wedged. It weighs 0.7 kg empty and is made from D1800×900 flat-coated PVC, which wipes clean and does not soak up fuel, rain or hangar-floor grime.
On whether it takes your helmet: we have had both an Alpha Eagle and an MSA flight helmet in this bag with the visor cover fitted. That is our own test rather than a manufacturer compatibility list, so if you are buying for a whole crew, measure one helmet at its widest point against the 33 cm opening before you commit to the order.
Identification: the velcro panel and four patch slots
On a base with twenty identical black bags, identification is a practical problem, not a cosmetic one. The bag carries a large velcro strip and four Ø 10 cm velcro slots on the outside — room for a name tag, a role patch, a company patch and a unit marking, placed the same way on every bag in the crew.
NVQ applies logo print or embroidery before shipping: choose the placement, upload the artwork, and the bag arrives branded. For an operator running a crew equipment programme, that means every new crew member's bag matches the rest of the roster without anyone on the base doing the work.
Pockets and carry
Two pockets besides the main compartment, both zipped: a small side pocket for ear seals, a spare visor cloth or a torch, and a transparent A5 pocket on the outside where a checklist, a laminated card or documents can be read without opening the bag. Top carry handles for the short walk to the aircraft, and a detachable shoulder strap for the longer one.
In stock in blue and grey, or your own colour
The Helicopter Pilot Helmet Bag 20 L is ready to ship from Denmark in blue and grey — standard delivery is up to 14 business days, and personalisation adds 7–14 business days for print or embroidery. It can be ordered individually or added to an operator's NVQ catalogue so crew members order their own.
Operators who want the bag in their own colour can have it made from 20 pieces per colour. Black, orange, green, grey and camouflage are all available, and most other colours can be matched on request. Combined with logo print or embroidery, that puts a whole crew on matching bags in the company's own colour rather than a stock blue. Tell us the colour and the quantity and we will come back with a price and a lead time.
For everything else a crew member carries between base, aircraft and home — backpacks, trolleys, a survival suit bag — see flight bags and crew backpacks.