List of rotorcraft manufacturers by country
Rotorcraft manufacturers fall into two categories:
- those that can design, certify and manufacture new designs from scratch and
- those that can only manufacture extant designs under license.
Boeing Vertol is an example of the first type and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, who license-produced Boeing Vertol designs for much of its recent history, is an example of the second.
Argentina[]
Australia[]
- – a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter[9]
Belgium[]
- Dynali Helicopter Company – light helicopter manufacturer
Bosnia and Herzegovina[]
- SOKO – no longer produces aircraft
Brazil[]
Canada[]
- Airbus Helicopters Canada (previously Eurocopter Canada)
- [12]
- Bell Helicopter – all of Bell Helicopter's commercial rotorcraft are produced at their plant in Mirabel, Quebec.
- CHR International
- Safari Helicopter – kit manufacturer
China[]
- Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation
- Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
- Hongdu Aviation Industry Group
- Qingdao Haili Helicopters
Czech Republic[]
- Aero Vodochody[13]
- Moravan[14]
Egypt[]
- Arab British Helicopter Company[15] – no longer producers of helicopters
France[]
- Aérospatiale – now part of Eurocopter
- Breguet Aviation[16]
- Citroën[17] – development and flight tests only
- [4]
- [4]
- Nord Aviation[18] – in 1970, merged with Sud Aviation to create Société Nationale d'Industrie Aérospatiale (SNIAS), later renamed Aérospatiale and ultimately merged into European aerospace corporation EADS in 2000
- Sud Aviation – became part of Aérospatiale, now part of Airbus Helicopters (formerly Eurocopter Group)[19]
Germany[]
- Bölkow – merged with Messerschmitt AG to become and later Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm[20]
- Dornier Flugzeugwerke – no longer produces aircraft[21]
- Flettner – no longer in business[22]
- Focke-Achgelis – no longer in business[23]
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm – became part of [24]
- – develops a kit helicopter
India[]
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- Mahindra Aerospace
- Tata Advanced Systems
- National Aerospace Laboratories[citation needed]
Indonesia[]
- Indonesian Aerospace – formerly known as Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) or Industri Pesawat Terbang Nurtanio (IPTN)
Iran[]
- HESA
- Panha
Italy[]
- AgustaWestland[25]
- Elicotteri Meridionali – now called the Sesto Calende (VA) facility of Agusta
- Alpi Aviation
- Fiat[4] – in 1969, Fiat Aviazione merged with Aerfer to create Aeritalia
- Heli-Sport
- Partenavia[18] – declared bankruptcy and Vulcanair bought all the assets, design rights and trademarks
- Piaggio Aero[18]
- – went out of business in the late 1970s[26]
Japan[]
- Fuji Heavy Industries
- GEN Corporation
- Kawasaki Aerospace Company[27]
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Korea (ROK)[]
- Korea Aerospace Industries (aka KAI)
Netherlands[]
New Zealand[]
Poland[]
- PZL-Świdnik WSK[14] – now part of AgustaWestland[29]
Romania[]
- IAR – the sole Romanian manufacturer of helicopters
Russia[]
- Bratukhin[30] – a helicopter design bureau dissolved in 1951
- Russian Helicopters (a division of Oboronprom)
- Yakovlev – no longer produces helicopters[13]
Serbia[]
- EDePro – developed a tip jet helicopter
South Africa[]
- Atlas Aircraft Corporation – became Denel Aviation
- Denel Aviation
- RotorWay South Africa[36]
Spain[]
- Aerotécnica[37]
- AISA (Aeronáutica Industrial S.A.)[12] – part of CASA and no longer produces rotorcraft
- ELA Aviación
- – located in Madrid and Albacete
Switzerland[]
- Berger-Helicopter (defunct)
- [38] – founded in 2007
Taiwan[]
Turkey[]
- Turkish Aerospace Industries (aka TAI or TUSAŞ)
Ukraine[]
- (formerly DB Aercopters)
- Aviaimpex[citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
United Kingdom[]
- Airmaster Helicopters (defunct)
- Bristol Aeroplane Company – now part of BAE Systems and no longer produces aircraft[16]
- Cierva Autogiro Company (defunct)[39]
- Fairey Aviation – aircraft manufacturing arm was taken over by Westland Aircraft in 1960[40]
- [4]
- (defunct)
- Saro – merged with Westland Aircraft, later Agusta-Westland[41]
- [28]
- [42]
- Westland Aircraft – merged with the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe (with their hovercraft) to create Westland Helicopters in 1961[43]
- Westland Helicopters – now part of AgustaWestland[43]
United States[]
- (defunct)
- AirScooter Corporation
- American Eurocopter – founded as , now a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter
- [10]
- Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company
- Bell Helicopter[44]
- (defunct)[10]
- Bensen Aircraft Company (defunct)[10]
- Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters & Boeing-Vertol)[45]
- Brantly International[20] – all manufacturing is done in Qingdao, China[46]
- (defunct)[10]
- Carter Aviation Technologies[47]
- Cessna[48]
- Columbia Helicopters
- Curtiss-Wright[21]
- [4]
- Enstrom Helicopter Corporation[49]
- Erickson Air-Crane
- Fairchild Aircraft[50]
- FH1100 Manufacturing Corporation
- Goodyear[4]
- Gyrodyne Company of America[51]
- Higgins Industries (defunct) – no longer produces aircraft
- Hiller Aircraft[51]
- [52]
- Hughes Aircraft[53]
- Kaman Aircraft[54]
- Lockheed Martin – formerly Lockheed Aircraft[24]
- MD Helicopters – formerly McDonnell Douglas Corp[55]
- Piasecki Aircraft
- Piasecki Helicopter – acquired by Boeing and became Boeing Vertol[39]
- Revolution Helicopter Corporation (defunct) – went out of business in November 1999
- Robinson Helicopter[18]
- Rotair Industries
- RotorWay International – produces kit helicopters[28]
- Sikorsky Aircraft[56]
- Schweizer Aircraft – acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft in 2004 and closed down in 2011 and 2012[57]
- [26]
- (no longer manufacturers)
- [42]
- (VHI) – a subsidiary of Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV); became American Eurocopter
- NASA/JPL for Ingenuity helicopter
International[]
- Airbus Helicopters – was Eurocopter
- European Helicopter Industries, now AgustaWestland[50]
- NHIndustries
See also[]
- List of aircraft manufacturers
- List of rotorcraft
- List of tilt-rotor craft
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