Abstract: An aircraft cargo and/or equipment pannier system for an aircraft having a weapons bay in its fuselage, the pannier system including a container chassis having a pair of spaced apart beam attachment mountings for suspending the chassis from the ceiling of the weapons bay with a pair of spaced apart cross beams, and an upper support frame assembly which is releasably secured to and interconnects the cross beams. When the cross beams are attached to the container chassis, the cross beams are housed essentially within the confines of the container chassis.

Abstract: A load handling device for transferring a load such as a stretchered patient to and from an aircraft, comprising an elongate pedestal pivotally connected at one end thereof for swinging movement about a horizontal axis located within the opening of an aircraft cabin door, a cantilevered horizontal platform securable to the pedestal and arranged to be driven by drive means for vertical up and down movement along the pedestal between an upper position where it is approximately level with the aircraft floor and the lower position where it is adjacent to the ground, wherein the pedestal is arranged to swing between a retracted stowed position wherein it is contained wholly within the aircraft cabin and an extended operating position wherein it projects approximately vertically downwards adjacent the aircraft cabin door.