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
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- Royal Moroccan Air Force purchased a single Heron on formation in 1956.[2]
Civil operators
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- Airlines of Tasmania[3] this airline is not the present airline of the same name.
- Ansett-ANA
- Altair
- Amalgamated Air
- Associated Airlines ♠
- Butler Air Transport ♠
- Connellan Airways
- Coveair
- Kendell Airlines
- Northern Airlines
- Qantas
- Southern Airlines
- Southern Airways
- Nigeria Airways
- West African Airways Corporation[4] (joint venture between Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Ghana) ♠
- Braathens SAFE[4] ♠ : 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.
- Västerås Flygande Museum : US-registered example operated by museum. (modified with boxer engines).
- Air Ecosse
- British Airways
- British European Airways[4] ♠
- British United Airways
- British Westpoint Airlines
- Cambrian Airways[4] ♠
- Channel Airways[4]
- Cunard Eagle Airways
- Dragon Airways[4] ♠
- Fairflight
- Ferranti
- Jersey Airlines[4] ♠
- Mercury Airlines
- Morton Air Services[4]
- Peters Aviation
- Progressive Airways
- Silver City Airways[4]
- Air Idaho
- Air Pacific
- Albany Aero Club[7]
- 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
References
[edit]- ^ 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" (PDF).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Stroud 1997, p. 63
- ^ "World Airline Survey". Flight: 557. 12 April 1962.
- ^ Archive 1982, No. 2, p. 32
- ^ "Home". Albany Aero Club.
- "Complete Civil Registers: 5: CR-T: Portuguese Timor". Archive. No. 2. Air-Britain. 1982. p. 32. ISSN 0262-4923.
- Stroud, John (March 1997). "Tamblin's Tram". Aeroplane Monthly. Vol. 25, no. 3. pp. 58–64. ISSN 0143-7240.
- "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.