List of VTOL aircraft

This is a list of planes capable of vertical take-off and landing arranged under manufacturer. The list excludes helicopters because they are assumed to have this capability.

A

• Aero-Design & Development Hummingbird^{[citation needed]}
• AeroVironment SkyTote
• Aeryon Scout
• AESIR HODER
• AirBuoyant - VertiPod
• AgustaWestland Erica (tiltwing)^{[citation needed]}
• AgustaWestland AW609
• Avcen JetPod^{[citation needed]}
• Avro Avrocar

B

• BAE Harrier II - vectored thrust
• BAE Sea Harrier - vectored thrust
• Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey (tiltrotor)
• Bell 65 ATV (Tiltjet)
• Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor
• Bell Eagle Eye (tiltrotor)
• Bell X-14
• Bell X-22 (ducted fan)
• Bell XV-15 (tiltrotor)
• Bell/Agusta BA609 (tiltrotor)
• Bensen B-10 Propcopter
• Boeing/Mcdonnell Douglas AV-8 Harrier - vectored thrust
• Boeing-Vertol VZ-2 (tiltwing)
• Boeing X-50
• Butterfly LLC Super Sky Cycle

C

• Canadair CL-84 Dynavert (tiltwing)
• CarterCopter - compound autogyro
• Carter PAV
• Convair XFY-1 Pogo (tailsitter)
• Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 (flying jeep)
• Curtiss-Wright X-19 (tiltrotor)

D

U.S. Army Doak 16/VZ-4DA

• Dassault Balzac V - interim Mirage III VTOL testbed
• Dassault Mirage IIIV - separate lift and thrust engines
• de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle
• Dornier Do 31
• Doak 16/VZ-4DA - Wingtip mounted Ducted Fans
• DM AeroSafe Group Eagle - a VTOL rescue platform, for rescue operations in tall buildings/structures
• DM AeroSafe Group Aero-cart - a much smaller (personal transport) version of the eagle

E

• EWR VJ 101 - Rotatable engines at the wingtips, two further lift jets in the fuselage to supplement the main engines in hovering flight.

F

• Fairey Gyrodyne -
• Fairey Jet Gyrodyne compound autogyro
• Fairey Rotodyne - compound autogyro with powered rotor for takeoff/landing
• Focke-Wulf Triebfluegeljaeger (tailsitter, not built)

G

• Garrett STAMP (Small Tactical Aerial Mobility Platform)
• Gress Aerospace eVader
• Grumman Nutcracker

H

• Hawker P.1127 (prototype of Kestrel/Harrier) - vectored thrust
• Hawker Siddeley P.1154 - vectored thrust supersonic design not completed
• Hawker Siddeley Harrier - vectored thrust
• Hawker Siddeley Kestrel (evaluation aircraft forerunner of Harrier) - vectored thrust
• Hiller X-18 (tiltwing)
• Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee

J

• Junkers EF 009

K

• Kamov Ka-22

L

• Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV)
• Lockheed XFV-1 "Salmon" (tailsitter)
• Lockheed XV-4 Hummingbird
• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II - fan and vectored thrust
• LTV XC-142 (tiltwing)

M

• Martin Jetpack
• McDonnell Douglas DC-X
• Moller Skycar
• Millennium Jet DuoTrek

P

• PAM 100B^{[citation needed]}
• PAM 100T^{[citation needed]}
• PAM 200^{[citation needed]}
• PAM ILV^{[citation needed]}
• Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep
• Puffin (tailsitter) project

R

• Rockwell XFV-12
• Rotary Rocket- Roton
• Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig - vertical engine testbed
• Ryan X-13 Vertijet (tailsitter)
• Ryan XV-5 Vertifan

S

• Sikorsky Cypher
• Sikorsky Cypher II
• Sikorsky X-Wing
• Short SC.1 - separate lift and thrust
• SNCASO Farfadet
• SNECMA Coléoptère (tailsitter)
• SoloTrek XFV
• Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle

T

• Tiltplane (tailsitter)
• Trek Aerospace Dragonfly
• Thunderbird 1
• Thunderbird 2

V

• VFW VAK 191B - vectored thrust plus vertical lift
• VFW-Fokker H3 - Compound helicopter

W

• Williams International WTS-125^{[citation needed]}
• Williams X-Jet

Y

• Yakovlev Yak-141
• Yakovlev Yak-36 - vectored thrust
• Yakovlev Yak-38 - separate lift and thrust

See also

• Helicopter manufacturers
• Coleopter
• Tiltrotor
• Tiltjet
• Tiltwing
• Tailsitter

External links

• Flying Platforms
• Gizmagazines' PAV aircraft
• Horizontal Or Vertical Take-off Or Landing (HOVTOL) Reference US Patent 5,890,441