NOVA Lightweight Transport Chair with Locking Hand Brakes, 12" Rear Wheels, Removable & Flip Up Arms for Easy Transfer, Anti-Tippers Included, Color Red

Sturdy chair - wheels are great for all the different types of terrain. The breaks on the handle bars are such a plus, not having to bend down to each side of the chair to put on breaks is awesome. It cost more than the other transport chairs for a reason. We have one of the cheaper ones that we use in the house, it's okay but the sturdiness and the ease of wheeling around are not the same. This one is a little heavier but it works great for my mom when we have to go out to doctors visits and such. I would definitely recommend... the only suggestion - do the full 20inch seat - it's like 18.5 it's roomy but would be great for those with a little bit of hips to have that extra room to move around in.

Please look at the dates of reviews. One of the "most helpful" reviews for this chair was posted six years ago!We recently purchased this for my father, and I am pleased to report the chair is AWESOME!If you're looking for a lightweight chair, however, this isn't it. It weighs about 30# with the footrests attached. Fortunately they're extremely easy to pop on and off, and you'll probably want to remove them before folding and lifting the chair into your trunk, so expect the lifting weight to be about 27#. We previously "test drove" a loaner from the nursing home that was spec'd at 19#, and I really enjoyed the weight of that one. However, it lacked features we wanted and felt pretty flimsy, so this Nova 352 was our choice. And am I ever glad we settled on the 352!!!First of all, the build quality is awesome. It feels like the Rolls Royce of transport chairs. It pretty much "drives" itself. On level ground and a smooth floor, you can push it with one finger and hardly feel the pressure. It's that smooth. Opening and closing is effortless. The footrests are extremely easy to put on and take off, and I'd advise that whenever you put it into a car trunk as it reduces the weight 2-3 pounds and also makes it that much more compact (and less chance of banging it in your trunk and damaging the footrests or vice versa).A huge plus for this chair is the arms. We might never need to remove them or lift them out of the way; time will tell whether we need that feature or not. But I'm glad it's available to us. But what I love about the arms is that they allow full access to a table due to the armrests only being at the elbow end of the arm. The front part is low enough to allow the chair to fit under a table, and this has made a world of difference for my father. With the loaner chair, when we took him into a restaurant, he was forced to sit well back from the edge of the table, and he kept dropping food in his lap. (Plus it was a little awkward for him to reach some things on the table.) Now he can get as close to the table as his stomach will allow. He actually asked us to back him off an inch the other day because he felt it was too close! So "desk arms" is a feature I would highly recommend for anyone who expects to use a transport chair for dining. If you're only going to use it to move someone for a couple minutes, then that's probably a feature you don't need, but we wanted to buy a transport chair once, not buy a cheap one then realize we needed another feature or two and have to buy another.Another must-have feature for us was the hand brakes. The Nova 352 has two sets of brakes. One is the traditional lever that either the transporter or the seated person can operate. They're convenient to reach back if you're in the seat; not so much if you're standing behind it pushing, as it requires you to bend down each time. The hand brakes are a separate braking system and are extremely convenient. You pull up on the handles to temporarily engage the brakes, and push down on the handles to lock the brakes. So you can lock the wheelchair in place either way, or both ways. We rarely use the front, patient-accessible brakes when we're transporting my dad. The handbrakes do what we need, and are so easy to operate.Again, the build quality on this is a joy to experience. We'll see how it holds up after hundreds, or thousands, of transports, but if it eventually wears out from that, I'll probably want to just buy another one.By the way, I didn't care for the color of blue in the photos I saw, and ordered red instead. We were then called by the vendor who said red was on back order but they could ship the blue immediately. I somewhat reluctantly agreed to the blue, since we wanted the chair right away. We were very pleasantly surprised that the blue is an attractive deep, metallic finish, not a lighter shade implied by some of the photos I've seen.After a couple outings we decided to purchase a gel cushion for this, since my dad sometimes sits for an hour or more at a time in it, such as at church or at a restaurant. I let my wife pick out the cushion, since she's a nurse who has been around wheelchairs for years. We ended up buying a Drive Medical Deluxe Skin Protection Gel "E" 3" Wheelchair Seat Cushion, Dark Blue, 18" x 16" 3" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002VWJZHE/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . For under $30, we couldn't complain about the price and decided if it didn't fit the bill, we wouldn't cry over the money and would find another cushion. So far I can recommend that cushion. My dad is 5'6" or so now and about 145#. The cushion lifts him up enough that the arm rests are a perfect height for him, and he says the cushion is very comfortable. The first one we were shipped was leaking and there was clearly moisture between the cushion and the plastic wrap. You could really feel the weight shift as you tilted the cushion from side to side. I simply made a few mouse clicks and Amazon immediately sent a replacement, and had UPS come to my door the very next day to pick it up. They had a return label already with them. It was a total no-hassle return. No cost to us. And the replacement cushion is fine. I know this part of my review belongs under that product, but I did want to share our shopping and using experience here as an overall part of the transport chair review.So to summarize, if you only want a very lightweight transport chair to move someone from point A to point B for a minute or two and they won't use the chair for dining or otherwise sitting at a table, a cheaper chair will probably suffice for you. But if you want a chair to use for outings, need "desk arms" that will fit under a table, want handbrakes for your convenience, removable foot rests for the patient's safety and comfort, and want a chair that is built extremely well and makes you and the person you're transporting feel safe, secure, and comfortable, I highly recommend the Nova 352. (Sure wish I was in the Vine program and got this free! Oh well. Money very well spent!)

Fantastic transport chair. It’s well designed, comfortable with some really nice features. It rolls well over many different surfaces due to the larger wheel that aren’t just hard plastic and the ability to moved the arm rests out of the way to pull up to a table was invaluable. It’s a great product. I don’t have any insight into durability because we didn’t use it for very long but my dad is very mechanically minded and fussy about quality and he think it’s a very solid product.

I’ve shopped around for lightweight wheelchairs, something that I’m able to lift by myself. I came across this brand and I’m glad I chose it over the others!! It’s lightweight enough for me to fold them and put it inside my trunk. It fits my trunk without taking the whole space there!Manuevering is super easy, even my 10 year old daughter can push my mom without difficulty. The ride is super smooth and so comfortable per my mom. The arm rest can be easily slide down for easy transferring to car seat. The foot rests are also removable and so easy to set up in seconds! Breaks are working great and everything was perfect.The only misleading part is the color. I got the blue and it looks more of a “peacock blue” and more on the greener side than blue. It’s definitely not the same as the color in the picture.Other than the color, it’s worth every penny!