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[]
Ceylon
- Royal Ceylon Air Force ♠
- Sri Lanka Air Force
- Royal Iraqi Air Force ♠[1]
- Jordan Arab Air Force ♠
- Royal Jordanian Air Force
Katanga
- Royal Moroccan Air Force purchased a single Heron on formation in 1956.[2]
Civil operators[]
- Airlines of Tasmania[3] this airline is not the present airline of the same name.
- Ansett-ANA
- ♠
- Butler Air Transport ♠
- Connellan Airways
- Northern Airlines
- Qantas
- Southern Airlines
- Southern Airways
- ♠
- Department of Transport
- Cimber Air
- ♠
- Air Pacific
- Fiji Airways
- British West Indian Airways
- All Nippon Airways
- Japan Air Lines ♠
- Toa Domestic Airline
- Nigeria Airways
- West African Airways Corporation (joint venture between Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Ghana) ♠
- Air North
- National Airways Corporation ♠
- Braathens SAFE ♠ : Eight aircraft from 1952 to 1960
- Fjellfly Air Services
- : One aircraft on magnetometric surveys, 1966 - 02.01.1969, when ac ditched in Vestfjorden.
- ♠ : One aircraft on service Stavanger - Bergen - Trondheim, 1956 - 1957.
- Aviaco ♠
- : US-registered example operated by museum. (modified with boxer engines).
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 ♠
- Ferranti
- Jersey Airlines ♠
- Morton Air Services
- Silver City Airways
- Air Idaho
- Air Pacific
- [6]
- Allegheny Commuter (Fischer Brothers Aviation)
- Florida Airways
- (HATS)
- Illini Airlines ♠
- Norstar
- North American Airlines
- (AAT Airlines)
- Prinair
- Seagull Air
- Shawnee Airlines
- Swift Aire Lines
- Trans Magic Airlines
- Wright Airlines
- PLUNA ♠
References[]
- ^ Sipos, Milos; Cooper, Tom (2020). Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970. Warwick, UK: Helion & Company Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-913118-74-7.
- ^ Air International November 1985, p. 229.
- ^ BTE Working Paper 41: page 14
- ^ "World Airline Survey". Flight: 557. 12 April 1962.
- ^ Archive 1982, No. 2, p. 32
- ^ Albany Aero Club
- "Complete Civil Registers: 5: CR-T: Portuguese Timor". Archive. No. 2. Air-Britain. 1982. p. 32. ISSN 0262-4923.
- "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.
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