Deschamps - Heavy Duty Lifting Airbags for safe aircraft lifting with inflatable cushions.

DARC - Deschamps Aircraft Recovery Cushions

The Deschamps Aircraft Recovery Cushions (DARC) range includes various Heavy Duty Lifting Airbags to lift a disabled aircraft and ensure best efficiency and safety during recovery operations. Lifting disabled aircraft with Airbags is often the safest, quickest and most convenient way to raise the aircraft and clear the runway as soon as possible.

The DARC range includes 15T (1800 & 3000), 25T (2400 & 3000) and 40T airbags to fit most of today’s aircraft. A new 60T bags is being developed to lift New Large Aircraft including A380s.

To provide the best safety level on the market, Deschamps uses the Hot Vulcanization Process to manufacture its DARCs. This process avoids the use of glue and guarantees a very high mechanical resistance. The working pressure of those low pressure bags is 7 psi while the bursting pressure of our bags as been recorded at 85 psi. This is more than twice higher than usual bags.

The DARC Airbag kits include all necessary equipment to operate the bags (Hoses, manifolds, repair kits …). Compressors or additional equipment can be delivered on demand.

Our main References are Air National Guards, Air Force Bases and Airlines worldwide which use the Mobi-Mat® DARC together with the DARC Base, Mobi-Mat® Tow-Mat, Mobi-Mat® Quick-Access Temporary Roadways and Roadway Dispensers.