ANGUS Bowles loves his "red and blue".

That's his name for the AGL Action Rescue Helicopter which flew to his rescue last year after the seven-year-old suffered a heart attack on the Sunshine Coast.

Angus and his mother Sonya stopped by the chopper's hangar at the Sunshine Coast Airport yesterday to meet the staff and say thanks.

An inquisitive Angus got the chance to sit in the front seat, try on a helmet and talk with crewman Daniel King.

It was a far cry from his previous encounters with rescue helicopters - where it was life or death situations.

The Maryvale boy suffers from pallister-hall syndrome, a rare genetic disorder affecting the development of parts of the body, as well as kidney abnormalities.

He has been airlifted to various medical facilities throughout Queensland three times.

His first was in January 2012 with the AGL Action Rescue Helicopter, the others have been with the RACQ CareFlight.

Yesterday's visit for mother Sonya was a reminder of just how valuable the AGL Action Rescue Helicopter was.

She teared up recalling the times they almost lost Angus.

"We're just so grateful for these services," she said.

"He has no bad memories. To him it's just normal.

"We're so grateful. We've been to hell and back and red and blue has been our saviour once but hopefully not again; we don't want to be frequent flyers."

Angus received a kidney transplant in September last year which helped put an end to the heart attacks.

He's had four throughout his young life.

On Australia Day this year, he got a urinary tract infection at his Maryvale home and had to be rescued by the RACQ CareFlight chopper as the roads to the hospital were cut by flood-waters.

"We nearly lost him," Sonya said.

"We were totally cut off, my husband was stuck at home with him. It was a matter of life and death.

"I got a text saying to prepare myself for the worst."

Sonya said the family accepted their time with Angus was not something they could control.

"He writes his own book and we just try to keep up," she said.