---
title: "Helicopter Emergency Medical Service — aviation glossary — OnlyPlanes"
description: "HEMS stands for Helicopter Emergency Medical Service in FAA terminology."
canonical_url: "https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/helicopter-emergency-medical-service"
locale: en
meta:
  keywords: "Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, HEMS"
  "og:description": "HEMS stands for Helicopter Emergency Medical Service in FAA terminology."
  "og:image": "https://onlyplanes.ru/images/aviation/aircraft/boeing-787.webp"
  "og:title": "Helicopter Emergency Medical Service — aviation glossary"
---

> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://onlyplanes.ru/llms.txt)

Aviation abbreviation

# Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

HEMS

ABBR · Safety

At a glance

## Meaning of Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

HEMS stands for Helicopter Emergency Medical Service in FAA terminology.

### More about Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

This abbreviation is used in safety. The English reference lists Helicopter Emergency Medical Service with the abbreviation HEMS.

FAA abbreviations reflect US aviation usage. Their meaning and permitted use can differ in documents from other countries.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DefinedTerm","@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/helicopter-emergency-medical-service#term","name":"Helicopter Emergency Medical Service","alternateName":["Helicopter Emergency Medical Service","HEMS"],"description":"HEMS stands for Helicopter Emergency Medical Service in FAA terminology.","inDefinedTermSet":{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn#glossary","name":"OnlyPlanes aviation glossary"},"url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/helicopter-emergency-medical-service"}
```

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"News, stories and rare images from the world of aviation","inLanguage":"en-GB","name":"OnlyPlanes","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en","publisher":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#identity"},"translationOfWork":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website"}},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/helicopter-emergency-medical-service#webpage","@type":"WebPage","description":"HEMS stands for Helicopter Emergency Medical Service in FAA terminology.","name":"Helicopter Emergency Medical Service — aviation glossary","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en/learn/helicopter-emergency-medical-service","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#website"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://onlyplanes.ru/learn/helicopter-emergency-medical-service"]}],"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo"}},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#identity","@type":"Organization","name":"OnlyPlanes","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en","logo":{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo"},"sameAs":["https://t.me/legkoenebo"]},{"@id":"https://onlyplanes.ru/en#logo","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"OnlyPlanes","contentUrl":"https://onlyplanes.ru/search-logo.png","inLanguage":"en-GB","url":"https://onlyplanes.ru/search-logo.png"}]}
```

## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://onlyplanes.ru/sitemap.md) for all pages.