LEGO City 7238 Fire Helicopter

LEGO 7238, Fire Helicopter, depicts a firefighting helicopter in the City theme, under Fire. Released in 2005, the set contains 76 pieces and focuses on a small emergency aircraft with a single firefighter minifigure.

Set 7238, Fire Helicopter, belongs to the Fire area of LEGO City. Its subject is a firefighting helicopter, a vehicle type that fits naturally into city rescue scenes, fire stations, and emergency response layouts. Within the theme, it adds an aerial service vehicle rather than a building or ground based appliance.

The build is compact and uses 76 pieces. The set includes 1 minifigure listed as “Fireman, Black Fire Jacket with Reflective Stripes, Radio, and Badge, Dark Bluish Gray Helmet with Visor, Orange Sunglasses”.

This set suits builders who want to expand a LEGO City Fire display with an aircraft. It can support play, because the minifigure gives the vehicle an immediate operator, and it can also sit in a collection of emergency vehicles. Compared with larger Fire themed subjects, it functions as a small complementary model focused on aerial response.

Inventory of set 7238

The inventory of set 7238 lists 76 pieces, spare parts excluded: 49 different lots (one shape in one color) for 47 part shapes. The box also contains 2 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 7238

Main color: black, making up 22% of the parts, followed by red (21%) and white (18%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 7238

42 of the 47 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 7238

One part shape in set 7238 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 7238 relies on a little-shared assortment.

Size of set 7238 within its line

With 76 pieces, set 7238 ranks #553 out of 723 City sets in our database, which have an average of 306 parts. Among the 208 sets released in 2005, it ranks #116. That is less than half the average City set size.