List of de Havilland Heron operators

There are few remaining flying examples of de Havilland Heron. The following are owners or former operators of the aircraft:

♠ Original operators

Military operators

Belgian Congo

• Force Publique ♠

Ceylon

• Royal Ceylon Air Force ♠
• Sri Lanka Air Force

Germany

• West German Air Force ♠

Ghana

Ghana Air Force

Iraq

• Royal Iraqi Air Force ♠

Jordan

• Jordan Arab Air Force ♠
• Royal Jordanian Air Force

Katanga

• Katangese Air Force

Kenya

• Directorate of Civil Aviation

Kuwait

• Kuwait Air Force

Malaysia

• Royal Malaysian Air Force ♠

Morocco

• Royal Moroccan Air Force purchased a single Heron on formation in 1956.

South Africa

• South African Air Force

United Kingdom

• Royal Air Force ♠
  • No. 60 Squadron RAF
  • Queen's Flight
• Fleet Air Arm
  • 781 Naval Air Squadron

Civil operators

Australia

• Airlines of Tasmania this airline is not the present airline of the same name.
• Ansett-ANA
• Altair
• Amalgamated Air
• Associated Airlines ♠
• Butler Air Transport ♠
• Connellan Airways
• Coveair
• Northern Airlines
• Qantas
• Southern Airlines
• Southern Airways

Bahamas

• Bahamas Airways ♠

Bahrain

• Gulf Aviation

Belgium

• Sabena

Brazil

• TAS – Transportes Aéreos Salvador ♠

Canada

• Department of Transport
• Newfoundland Air Transport

Ivory Coast

• Air Ivoire

Colombia

• ACES Colombia

Denmark

• Cimber Air
• Dan-Fly
• Falcks Flyvetjeneste ♠

Fiji

• Air Pacific
• Fiji Airways

France

• Air Paris
• Union Aéromaritime de Transport ♠

Ghana

• Ghana Airways ♠

Honduras

• Aeroservice S de RL

India

• Indian Airlines ♠

Indonesia

• Garuda Indonesia ♠

Italy

• Itavia
• Avio Linee Siciliane

Jamaica

• British West Indian Airways

Japan

• All Nippon Airways
• Fuji Airlines
• Japan Air Lines ♠
• Japan Air Services
• Toa Domestic Airline

Nigeria

• Nigeria Airways
• West African Airways Corporation (joint venture between Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Ghana) ♠

New Zealand

• Air North
• National Airways Corporation ♠

Norway

• Braathens SAFE ♠ : Eight aircraft from 1952 to 1960
• Fjellfly Air Services
• Nor-Fly : One aircraft on magnetometric surveys, 1966 - 02.01.1969, when ac ditched in Vestfjorden.
• VLS - Vestlandske Flyselskap ♠ : One aircraft on service Stavanger - Bergen - Trondheim, 1956 - 1957.

Puerto Rico

• Prinair

Rhodesia

• Air Trans Africa

São Tomé and Príncipe

• Transportes Aéreos São Tomé

Saint Lucia

• St. Lucia Airways

Sierra Leone

• Sierra Leone Airways

Spain

• Aviaco ♠

Sweden

• Västerås Flygande Museum : US-registered example operated by museum. (modified with boxer engines).

Thailand

• Sky of Siam

Tonga

• Tongair

Turkey

• Devlet Hava Yolları ♠
• Türk Hava Yolları

United Kingdom

Heron 2D operated by Ferranti as an executive transport 1962-1970

• Air Ecosse
• British Airways
• British European Airways ♠
• British United Airways
• British Westpoint Airlines
• Cambrian Airways ♠
• Channel Airways
• Cunard Eagle Airways
• Dragon Airways ♠
• Fairflight
• Ferranti
• Jersey Airlines ♠
• Mercury Airlines
• Morton Air Services
• Peters Aviation
• Progressive Airways
• Silver City Airways

United States

• Air Idaho
• Air Pacific
• Albany Aero Club
• Allegheny Commuter (Fischer Brothers Aviation)
• Baja Cortez Airlines
• Colony Airlines
• Florida Airways
• Great Plains Airways
• Hawaiian Air Tour Service (HATS)
• Illini Airlines ♠
• King Airlines
• Norstar
• North American Airlines
• Orange Blossom Commuter (AAT Airlines)
• Prinair
• Seagull Air
• Shawnee Airlines
• Swift Aire Lines
• Trans Magic Airlines
• Wright Airlines

Uruguay

• PLUNA ♠

References

• "The Royal Moroccan Air Force...A Seasoned Air Arm". Air International. Vol. 29, no. 5. November 1985. pp. 226–232, 250–252. ISSN 0306-5634.