LEGO City 60179 Ambulance Helicopter

LEGO City set 60179, “Ambulance Helicopter”, depicts a medical rescue helicopter within the Hospital subtheme. Released in 2018, it contains 190 pieces and includes 3 minifigures for an emergency response scene.

Its subject is an ambulance helicopter, placing it among the medical, rescue and public service vehicles that support a wider LEGO City layout.

The build uses 190 pieces to create an air rescue vehicle with figures suited to a medical incident. The 3 minifigures are a paramedic with a red Star of Life jacket, white helmet with visor and orange sunglasses, a man with a green jacket, lime legs, white helmet and blue goggles, and a female paramedic with a red Star of Life jacket, red cap with hair and open mouth expression.

This set suits builders who want emergency services in a city display, as well as those collecting LEGO City vehicles. It can be placed near a hospital, combined with other rescue models or used as a standalone medical response scene, adding an aerial service vehicle to the Hospital range.

Inventory of set 60179

The inventory of set 60179 lists 190 pieces, spare parts excluded: 109 different lots (one shape in one color) for 97 part shapes. The box also contains 8 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 60179

Main color: yellow, making up 21% of the parts, followed by red (19%) and light bluish gray (15%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 60179

86 of the 97 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

Exclusive parts in set 60179

One part shape in set 60179 appears in no other set in the catalog, most often a printed element, a sticker or a mold specific to the model. If it gets lost, you will need to look for it individually, for example on BrickLink, rather than in another set. Counting colors, 2 lots in the set are not found in any other set.

No similarly sized set supplies more than a quarter of its parts: set 60179 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 60179 within its line

With 190 pieces, set 60179 ranks #395 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 457 sets released in 2018, it ranks #223.