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

A

(American Aircraft International)

(Aviatsionnyy Nauchno-Yekhnicheskiy Tsentr Aero-Astra (Aero-Astra))

(API/Aeronautical Products Inc)

From 2000, AgustaWestland

(Air Command International, Caddo Mills, Texas, United States)

(Donvale, Victoria, Australia)

(Newport News, Virginia, United States)

(AutoGyro GmbH)

Avicopter (Avic Helicopter Company)

B

(Albert Gilles von Baumhauer)

(Jean Baylac)

(Léonce Bertin)

Brondetti

Brondetti

C

(Lansing, Illinois, United States)

(Capital Helicopter Corporation)

British-built models

(Paul Cornu)

(Montana, United States)

D

(Louis Damblanc - Lacoin)

The Damblanc–Lacoin Alérion helicopter under construction

(Doak Aircraft Co Inc, Torrance CA. )

Doman

DSH

(Henri and Armand Dufaux)

E

Engineering System

F

(Fama Helicopters srl.)

Paducah, Kentucky, United States

(Félix Faure)

(Nicolas Florine, Belgium)

(Otto Frank)

G

(Glenview Metal Products Company)

(Eugene Michael Gluhareff / E (Eugene) Gluhareff Helicopter Corp, Palm Springs FL.)

H

(Heli-Sport srl, Turin, Italy)

Helibras is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters.

(Fountain Valley, California)

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

(1945: Hoppi-copters Inc (fdr: Horace T Pentecost), Boeing Field, Seattle WA. 1954: Capital Helicopter Corp.)

I

J

K

((W Wallace & Roderick G) Kellett Autogiro Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

(Cleveland, Ohio, United States)

L

(Louis Lecoin and Louis Damblanc)

(Curtis, William, and Victor H Leineweber, Chicago, Illinois)

(Mayflower, Arkansas, United States)

M

(Mécanique Aviation TRAction)

As McDonnell Douglas:

(Overland Park, Kansas, United States)

(United States)

N

O

P

(A. Papin and D. Rouilly)

Pawnee Aviation, Inc., Longmont, Colorado, and later McCook, Nebraska, United States

(Horace Pentecost)

(Major Stephan Petróczy - Oberleutnant Dr. Theodor von Kármán and Ingenieurleutnant Wilhelm Žurovec)

  • PKZ-1[25] 1917 tethered helicopter (Schraubenfesselflieger)
  • PKZ-2[25] 1917 tethered helicopter (Schraubenfesselflieger)

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

Platt-LePage Aircraft Co

Q

R

(Boulder Colorado and later El Prado, New Mexico, United States)

(Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia)

(Colonel Renard)

(Glendale, California)

RotorSport UK Ltd

(Salt Lake City, Utah, United States)

S

(Belá Samu, Jenö Orosz and Dániel Hatházi)

(S.E Saunders Limited)

(Milton, Pennsylvania, United States)

(Stichting voor Ontwikkeling en Bouw van Experimenteel Hefschroefvligtuig)

(N. I. Sorokin)

(United States)

T

(Texas Helicopter Corporation)

(Tsentrahl'nyy Aerodinamicheskiy i Ghidrodinamicheskiy Institoot - Central Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics Institute; CAHI)

U

United Helicopter, Inc

V

(Vertical Aviation Technologies Inc (pres: Brad Clark), Sanford FL / Vertical Aviation Technology / VAT)

(Federico Cantero Villamil)

(Vortech, Inc., Fallston, Maryland)

W

(Oskar Westermayer)

From 2000, AgustaWestland

(Long Green, Maryland, United States)

(St Columb, Cornwall, United Kingdom)

X

Y

Unmanned helicopters

Z

Zaschka

Notes

US Army helicopters designations:

  • AH: Attack Helicopter
  • CH: Cargo Helicopter
  • OH: Observation Helicopter
  • RAH: Reconnaissance and Attack Helicopter
  • UH: Utility Helicopter

Project acronyms

  • AAH: Advanced Attack Helicopter

See also

References

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