List of rotorcraft

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This is a list of rotorcraft, including helicopters, autogyros, rotor kites and convertiplanes.

A

A-B Helicopters

Aerocopter

AeroDreams

Aero

Aerokopter

Aeronautical Products

Aerospace General

Aérospatiale

Aero-Sport International

Aerotecnica

Agusta

From 2000, AgustaWestland

AgustaWestland

Air & Space

Airmaster Helicopters

Ambi Budd

American Aircraft Corporation

American Air Jet

American Helicopter

AutoGyro

Aviaimpex

Avian

Aviation Industries of Iran (AII)

Avicopter (Avic Helicopter Company)

Aviotechnica

B

Bell/Agusta

Bell Helicopter Textron

Bendix Helicopters

Bensen

Borgward

Boeing Helicopters (Piasecki Helicopter)

Brantly

Bratukhin

Breguet

Bristol Aeroplane Company

Brondetti

Brondetti B.G.M.2 (helicopter) 4

C

Canadian Home Rotors

Cessna

Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation

Cicare Helicopteros S.A.

Cierva Autogiro Company

Columbia Helicopters

Continental Copters

Convair

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

D

Denel Aerospace Systems

DF Helicopters

DSH

Doak

shrouded-rotor aircraft (Doak VZ-4)

Doman

Dorand

Dornier Flugzeugwerke

Douglas

Dynali Helicopter

E

Eagle Research & Development

Engineering System

Enstrom

Erickson Air-Crane

Eurocopter Group

F

Fairchild Hiller

Fairey Aviation

Fama Helicopter

Fiat

Filper

Firestone Aircraft Company

Flettner

Focke-Achgelis

Focke-Wulf

G

Gadfly Aircraft

Gazda

GEN Corporation

Glenview

Groen Brothers Aviation

Hélicoptères Guimbal

Gyrodyne

Gyronautics

H

Hafner

Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation

Hawker-Siddley

Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation

Heli-Sport

Helowerks

Higgins

Hillberg Helicopters

Hiller Aircraft Corporation

Hillman

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Hongdu Aviation Industry Corporation

  • MD500E light and multi-purpose helicopter
  • MD520N light and multi-purpose helicopter
  • MD530F light and multi-purpose helicopter
  • MD600N and single-turbine engine helicopter

Hughes Helicopters

Hynes

I

Industria Aeronautică Română

Innovator Technologies

Irkut

J

K

KAI

Kaman Aircraft

Kamov

Kawasaki Heavy Industries

Kayaba Industry

Kazan Helicopter Plant

Kellett Autogiro Corporation

Kharkov Aviation Institute

Kinney

(Cleveland, Ohio, United States)

L

Lada Land

Lackner

Landgraf Helicopter Company

Lockheed

M

Manzolini

Marchetti

Marrchetti

MATRA

(Mécanique Aviation TRAction)

Masquito Aircraft

McDonnell

As McDonnell Douglas:

Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm

Mil Helicopters

Millennium Helicopter

(United States)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

N

Nagler

Nederlandse Helikopter Industrie

NHIndustries

Nord

Northrop Grumman

O

P

Panha

Pawnee Aviation

Piasecki

Phoenix Rotorcraft

(Fallston, Maryland, and Louisburg, North Carolina, United States)

Platt-LePage Aircraft Co

PZL

Q

R

Redback Aviation

(Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia)

Revolution Helicopter Corporation

Robinson Helicopter

Rotorcraft Ltd

Rotor-Craft Corp.

(Glendale, Ca.)

RotorSport UK Ltd

RotorWay International

S

Saunders

(S.E Saunders Limited)

Saunders Roe

Scheutzow

Schweizer Aircraft Corporation

Shahed Aviation Industries Research Center

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Silvercraft Italiana

Spitfire Helicopter Company

SNCAC

SNCASE

SNCASO

Star Aviation

(United States)

Sznycer

T

Transcendental Aircraft Corporation

Tenchen Tochen STREP

Texas Helicopters

Thruxton

TAI/AgustaWestland

U

United Helicopter, Inc

V

Vertical Aviation

Vertol Aircraft Corporation

Vortech

W

Wagner

Westland Aircraft

From 2000, AgustaWestland

With Aerospatiale

X

Y

Yakovlev

Yamaha Motor Company

Unmanned helicopters

Youngcopter

Z

Zafar

Zaschka

Notes

(US Army helicopters designations: "AH" means: "Attack Helicopter", "AAH" means: "Advanced Attack Helicopter", "RAH" means: "Reconnaissance and Attack Helicopter", "CH" means: "Cargo Helicopter", "OH" means: "Observation Helicopter" and "UH" means: "Utility Helicopter".)

See also

References

  1. ^ Pulse Jets On Tips Lift Copter" , May 1950, Popular Science rare photos of Top Sergeant
  2. ^ Strap Yourself Into One-Man Helicopter, June 1951, Popular Science rare photo of Buck Private
  3. ^ project only, twin-engined wide-body variant of the Cobra
  4. ^ "Italian Helicopter One of World's Smallest" Popular Mechanics, September 1950, p. 129.
  5. ^ "One-Man Navy Helicopter Test Stabilizing Controls" Popular Mechanics, September 1954, p. 105.
  6. ^ "Projected Convertiplane" FLIGHT, 21 March 1958, p. 397. Tilt-rotor design.
  7. ^ "New Helicopter's Engine Rides Overhead, Close To Propeller" , October 1953, Popular Science rare photo of MC-101 in flight
  8. ^ "Rocket-Powered Pinwheel Points to Back Pack Unit." Popular Mechanics, September 1954, p. 105. First RH-1 large version.
  9. ^ "Latest Version RH-1" FLIGHT, 21 March 1958, p. 388, Second RH-1 back pack version.
  10. ^ "American airplanes: ro - ry". Aerofiles.com. 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2011-03-16. 
  11. ^ a b Taylor, John W. R. (1983). Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982-83. London: Jane's Publishing Company. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2.