Vita Aerospace redefines what’s possible for flight safety, efficiency, and costs during helicopter hoist operations. We believe in bringing people home every time. It’s why we set out to solve the unsolvable and it’s why we won’t stop until injury and death are eliminated from hoist operations.

Vita Aerospace’s mission is to develop innovative load stabilization technology for helicopter search and rescue creating a higher safety standard for the pilots, crews, patients, and their families.

Vita Aerospace’s system gets soldiers out of harms way quicker, saves on fuel, and eliminates the need for taglines reducing flight and hoist times by up to four times for the average MEDEVAC operation.

Based in Broomfield, Colorado, Vita Aerospace is a division of Vita Inclinata Technologies Inc. Vita Inclinata has additional offices in the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Washington, DC, and Silicon Valley, California.

Vita Aerospace designs and manufactures the Vita Rescue System (VRS) which is a load stabilization device that uses a proprietary high-powered bi-directional propulsion system, allowing for faster, autonomous hoist stabilization and the ability to manually rotate the patient during hoist operations.  

These advantages reduce the time to complete a rescue, and the risk to aircrews, ground personnel, and the patient. The VRS gives the hoist operator precise control of the rescue device, making it the perfect tool for complex hoists on difficult terrain such as mountains, jungles, woods, and urban environments.

The Vita Rescue System easily attaches to a variety of rescue devices, such as SKEDCO, Stokes, Basket, and other rescue bags, making it the perfect addition to your rescue kit.

The Vita Rescue System is a battery-powered; remotely operated, suspended load stabilization system. The device dynamically adjusts to load size up to 600lbs / 272kg in nearly all weather conditions, to eliminate swing, spin, and oscillation without the necessity of a tagline. The control pendant has a range of up to 1,000 ft.

The VRS is also designed for maritime operations and can be deployed to 2 meters underwater for up to 30 minutes.

The VRS is completely autonomous from the aircraft and can be used on any  aircraft without costly integration.

When Vita was founded, the primary stabilization method for helicopter hoist operations was a tagline – a simple rope held by a person on the ground. This method is not only outdated, but also imprecise, time-consuming, and requires someone on the ground to manually control the rescue device, often exposing personnel to additional risk. Our proprietary technology eliminates tagline issues, human error, and environmental factors from the equation by creating total load stabilization for helicopter hoist operations. Our solution is not only more efficient than a rope, it is safer for the patient and ground crew, and it expands a crew’s ability to complete complicated hoists where a tagline is not possible. Our goal is to become the industry standard for safety and efficiency in the aerospace field.

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Our History:

Vita Inclinata was founded on the belief that the lack of technology should never be the difference between life and death for rescue crews, crane operators, and patients.

In 2009, Vita founder Caleb Carr was practicing as a search and rescue volunteer in high school. During a routine training mission, his friend and mentor, Don, went into cardiac arrest next to him. A helicopter arrived to transport Don to the hospital, but couldn’t insert its rescue litter due to gusty winds, rotor wash, and the mountainous terrain. After multiple attempts, the helicopter was forced to turn back without them, and Don died as a result. Caleb learned that this was a fairly common problem that can cause the loss of lives. He enrolled in medical school at the University of Colorado – Denver with the goal of saving lives. There, his professor, Dr. Randall Tagg, listened to his story and challenged him to solve the problem.

With the mission of “Bring them home every time,” Vita’s technology changes the narrative while saving lives, time, and money across industries, including search and rescue, military, firefighting, public safety, construction, wind energy and oil and gas.

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