List of rotorcraft manufacturers by country
Rotorcraft manufacturers fall into two categories:
- those that can design, certify and manufacture new designs from scratch and
- those that can only manufacture extant designs under license.
Boeing Vertol is an example of the first type and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, who license-produced Boeing Vertol designs for much of its recent history, is an example of the second.
Argentina
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Australian Aerospace – a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter[9]
Belgium
[edit]- Dynali Helicopter Company – light helicopter manufacturer
Bosnia and Herzegovina
[edit]- SOKO – no longer produces aircraft
Brazil
[edit]- Baumgartl[10]
- Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento[10]
- Helibras – now a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter[11]
Canada
[edit]- Airbus Helicopters Canada (previously Eurocopter Canada)
- Avian Aircraft[12]
- Bell Helicopter – all of Bell Helicopter's commercial rotorcraft are produced at their plant in Mirabel, Quebec.
- CHR International
- Safari Helicopter – kit manufacturer
China
[edit]- Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation
- Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
- Hongdu Aviation Industry Group
- Qingdao Haili Helicopters
- Red Eagle Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Sichuan Lantian Helicopter Company Limited
Czech Republic
[edit]Egypt
[edit]- Arab British Helicopter Company[15] – no longer producers of helicopters
France
[edit]- Aérospatiale – now part of Eurocopter
- Breguet Aviation[16]
- Citroën[17] – development and flight tests only
- Etablissements Charles Dechaux[4]
- Gaucher Remicopter[4]
- Helicopteres Guimbal
- Nord Aviation[18] – in 1970, merged with Sud Aviation to create Société Nationale d'Industrie Aérospatiale (SNIAS), later renamed Aérospatiale and ultimately merged into European aerospace corporation EADS in 2000
- Sud Aviation – became part of Aérospatiale, now part of Airbus Helicopters (formerly Eurocopter Group)[19]
Germany
[edit]- Bölkow – merged with Messerschmitt AG to become Messerschmitt-Bölkow and later Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm[20]
- Dornier Flugzeugwerke – no longer produces aircraft[21]
- Flettner – no longer in business[22]
- Focke-Achgelis – no longer in business[23]
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm – became part of Airbus Helicopter[24]
- Youngcopter – develops a kit helicopter
India
[edit]- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- Mahindra Aerospace
- Tata Advanced Systems
- National Aerospace Laboratories[citation needed]
Indonesia
[edit]- Indonesian Aerospace – formerly known as Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) or Industri Pesawat Terbang Nurtanio (IPTN)
Iran
[edit]Italy
[edit]- Aero Eli Servizi Costruzioni Aeronautiche
- AgustaWestland[25]
- Elicotteri Meridionali – now called the Sesto Calende (VA) facility of Agusta
- Alpi Aviation
- DF Helicopters Srl
- Fiat[4] – in 1969, Fiat Aviazione merged with Aerfer to create Aeritalia
- Heli-Sport
- Konner Srl
- Partenavia[18] – declared bankruptcy and Vulcanair bought all the assets, design rights and trademarks
- Piaggio Aero[18]
- Silvercraft – went out of business in the late 1970s[26]
Japan
[edit]Korea (ROK)
[edit]- Korea Aerospace Industries (aka KAI)
Netherlands
[edit]New Zealand
[edit]Poland
[edit]- PZL-Świdnik WSK[14] – now part of AgustaWestland[29]
Romania
[edit]- IAR – the sole Romanian manufacturer of helicopters
Russia
[edit]- Bratukhin[30] – a helicopter design bureau dissolved in 1951
- Russian Helicopters (a division of Oboronprom)
- Yakovlev – no longer produces helicopters[13]
Serbia
[edit]- EDePro – developed a tip jet helicopter
South Africa
[edit]- Atlas Aircraft Corporation – became Denel Aviation
- Denel Aviation
- RotorWay South Africa[36]
Spain
[edit]- Aerotécnica[37]
- Aeronáutica Industrial S.A. (AISA)[12] – part of CASA and no longer produces rotorcraft
- ELA Aviación
- Eurocopter España – located in Madrid and Albacete
Switzerland
[edit]- Berger-Helicopter (defunct)
- Marenco Swisshelicopter[38] – founded in 2007
- SKT Helicopter
Taiwan
[edit]Turkey
[edit]- Turkish Aerospace Industries (aka TAI or TUSAŞ)
Ukraine
[edit]- Aerokopter (formerly DB Aercopters)
- Aviaimpex[citation needed]
- Aviakon[citation needed]
- Skyline Construction Bureau[citation needed]
- ViAZ[citation needed]
United Kingdom
[edit]- Airmaster Helicopters (defunct)
- Bristol Aeroplane Company – now part of BAE Systems and no longer produces aircraft[16]
- Cierva Autogiro Company (defunct)[39]
- Fairey Aviation – aircraft manufacturing arm was taken over by Westland Aircraft in 1960[40]
- Firth Helicopters[4]
- Gadfly Aircraft (defunct)
- Saro – merged with Westland Aircraft, later Agusta-Westland[41]
- Thruxton Aviation[28]
- Wallis Autogyros[42]
- Westland Aircraft – merged with the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe (with their hovercraft) to create Westland Helicopters in 1961[43]
- Westland Helicopters – now part of AgustaWestland[43]
United States
[edit]- A-B Helicopters
- Aerodyne Systems Engineering (defunct)
- AirScooter Corporation
- American Eurocopter – founded as Vought Helicopter Inc, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter
- American Helicopter[10]
- Aviodyne U.S.A.
- Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company
- Bell Helicopter[44]
- Bendix Helicopter Company (defunct)[10]
- Bensen Aircraft Company (defunct)[10]
- Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters & Boeing-Vertol)[45]
- Brantly International[20] – all manufacturing is done in Qingdao, China[46]
- Campbell Aircraft Company (defunct)[10]
- Carter Aviation Technologies[47]
- Cessna[48]
- Columbia Helicopters
- Curtiss-Wright[21]
- Doman Helicopters[4]
- Enstrom Helicopter Corporation[49]
- Erickson Air-Crane
- Fairchild Aircraft[50]
- FH1100 Manufacturing Corporation
- Glenview Metal Products
- Goodyear[4]
- Gyrodyne Company of America[51]
- Higgins Industries (defunct) – no longer produces aircraft
- Hiller Aircraft[51]
- Hillman Helicopter[52]
- Hughes Aircraft[53]
- Kaman Aircraft[54]
- Lockheed Martin – formerly Lockheed Aircraft[24]
- MD Helicopters – formerly McDonnell Douglas Corp[55]
- Piasecki Aircraft
- Piasecki Helicopter – acquired by Boeing and became Boeing Vertol[39]
- Revolution Helicopter Corporation (defunct) – went out of business in November 1999
- Robinson Helicopter[18]
- RotorWay International – produces kit helicopters[28]
- Sikorsky Aircraft[56]
- Schweizer Aircraft – acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft in 2004 and closed down in 2011 and 2012[57]
- Spitfire Helicopter Company[26]
- Texas Helicopters Co (no longer manufacturers)
- Umbaugh[42]
- Vertical Aviation Technologies
- Vought Helicopter Inc. (VHI) – a subsidiary of Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV); became American Eurocopter
- NASA/JPL for Ingenuity helicopter
International
[edit]- Airbus Helicopters – was Eurocopter
- European Helicopter Industries, now AgustaWestland[50]
- NHIndustries
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ a b "Desarrollo de Helicópteros en la Argentina - Imágenes". Taringa!. 21 February 2006.
- ^ a b c d e f g Apostolo p. 122
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- ^ "Argentine Minister of Defense nos ofrecieron cooperación tecnológica en materia de radares y helicópteros y, en ese caso, no hicimos opción de la misma,". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011.
- ^ Judy Rumerman. "Helicopter Development in the Early Twentieth Century". U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Archived from the original on 5 May 2012. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
- ^ "S.A. PESCARA HELICOPTERACION", Flight: 50, 25 January 1923
- ^ Australian Aerospace Press Release (July 2009). "Australian Aerospace Farewells The Grande Dame Of The Skies". Retrieved 18 December 2009. [dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f Apostolo p. 121
- ^ Helibras, retrieved 18 August 2022
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 44
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 119
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 120
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- ^ a b Apostolo p. 60
- ^ "Helicopter mit dem Citroën Comotor Wankelmotor". Der-wankelmotor.de. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d Apostolo p. 124
- ^ Apostolo p. 93
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 59
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- ^ a b Apostolo p. 74
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- ^ a b Apostolo p. 92
- ^ Apostolo p. 73
- ^ a b c Apostolo p. 125
- ^ Skomra, Sławomir (February 2010). "Już nie ma PZL Świdnik. Jest AgustaWestland Świdnik in Gazeta Wyborcza". Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 108
- ^ Kamov (n.d.). "Продукция (Russian language)". Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ fas.org (August 2000). "Kazan Helicopter Plant (KHP)". Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ Pike, John (April 2006). "Kazan Helicopter Plant (KHP)". Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ Borodulin, Vladislav (December 2007). "Helicopter industry overview for Russia". Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ Apostolo p. 111
- ^ "RotorWay International - Premiere Kit Helicopters". Archived from the original on 19 September 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ^ Apostolo p. 40
- ^ "Home page – marenco". Marenco-swisshelicopter.ch. Archived from the original on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 21
- ^ Apostolo p. 66
- ^ Apostolo p. 80
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 101
- ^ a b Apostolo p. 102
- ^ Apostolo p. 45
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- ^ "Brantley company profile". Archived from the original on 2 February 2016.
- ^ Carter Aviation Technologies (November 2009). "Carter Aviation Technologies". Retrieved 20 December 2009.
- ^ Apostolo p. 62
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- ^ a b Apostolo p. 65
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- ^ "Sikorsky Aircraft to close plant near Elmira, cut 570 jobs". syracuse. Associated Press. 25 September 2012.
Bibliography
[edit]- Apostolo, Giorgio. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Helicopters, Bonanza Books, New York, 1984. ISBN 0-517-43935-2.
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