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The A109 was renamed the AW109 as a consequence of the July 2000 merger of Finmeccanica and GKN plc's respective helicopter subsidiaries Agusta and Westland Helicopters to form AgustaWestland. Since the mid-1990s, fuselages for the AW109 have been manufactured by PZL-Ĺwidnik , which became a subsidiary company of AgustaWestland in 2010.
An attack helicopter is an armed helicopter with the primary ... John C. International Warbirds: An Illustrated Guide to World Military Aircraft, 1914-2000 ...
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation: World's first large-scale mass-produced helicopter and the first helicopter used by the United States Army Air Forces. [2] 1942 Unknown 131 Sikorsky H-5: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 1943 1945 300 Sikorsky R-6: Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation World War II 1943 1945 225 Kellett R-8: Experimental helicopter
In the US Air Force the naming convention for ground attack aircraft is a prefix "A-", followed by a number, e.g. A-10, bomber aircraft are prefixed with “B-”, e.g. B-52, and fighter aircraft with “F-”, e.g. F-35. [3] This list is limited to fixed-wing aircraft that have been built, and does not include abandoned concepts or fictional ...
World's first dedicated armed attack helicopter. [12] 1965 [13] 1967 [14] 1,116 [14] LTV A-7 Corsair II: Ling-Temco-Vought: Replacement for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. Its design was derived from the Vought F-8 Crusader. 1965 1967 1,545 Lockheed AC-130: Ground-attack aircraft and close air support gunship for SOF teams Lockheed Martin; Boeing ...
On the evening of 27 April 1993, a DHC-5 Buffalo transport aircraft of the Zambian Air Force crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Libreville, Gabon. The flight was carrying most of the Zambia national football team to a 1994 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Senegal in Dakar. All 25 passengers and five crew members were ...
Attack helicopters (28 P) S. ... Unmanned helicopters (2 C, 32 P) W. World War II helicopters of Germany (8 P) Pages in category "Military helicopters"