Westland Aircraft
From Graces Guide
There is a separate entry for the Westland Aircraft Ltd company history.
Fixed Wing Aircraft
| Westland Aircraft - Fixed Wing | ||
| Model | Date | Detail |
| Woodpigeon. | 1924 | Two-seat light biplane designed to compete in the 1924 Lympne light aircraft trials. |
| Yeovil. | 1925 | Bombing Machine. |
| Pterodactyl. | 1926 | Experimental tailless aircraft designs developed by Geoffrey T. R. Hill |
| Widgeon. | 1927 | Light two seater. |
| Wapiti (IIa). | 1928 | General purpose bomber and army co-operation. Two-crew biplane. Powered by one 480 hp Jupiter VIII / VIIIF or 500 hp Jupiter XFA engine. The Mk1 (87 made) was a wooden construction and the Mk2 (430 made) was metal. Around 500 aircraft built. |
| Wizard | 1928 | Monoplane Fighter. |
| Limousine | 1929 | Fixed wing. |
| Wallace | 1931 | General purpose. Originally known as the Wapiti Mk VII. Powered by one Pegasus IIM3 engine. 63 MkI and 107 Mk2 produced. |
| Wessex | 1933 | General purpose. 8 Seater Monoplane. |
| F 7/30 | 1935 | Single-seater fighter. |
| Lysander | 1938 | STOL army co-operation monoplane built to replace the Audax and Hector. Powered by one 890 hp Bristol Mercury XII radial engine. |
| Walrus | Spotter-reconnaissance biplane. Developed from DH9A. | |
| IV | Four-passenger high wing monoplane transporter. Powered by three Armstrong Siddeley Motors Genet Major engines. | |
| Whirlwind | 1938 | Single-seater twin engined long-range fighter and fighter-bomber. |
| N.1B | 1917 | Fighter Prototype. 2 built. |
| Wagtail | 1918 | Fighter Prototype. 5 built. |
| Weasel | 1925 | Fighter Prototype. 4 built. |
| Dreadnought | 1924 | Experimental Monoplane. 1 built. |
| Westbury | 1926 | Fighter Aircraft. |
| Witch | 1928 | Bomber Prototype. |
| Interceptor | 1929 | Fighter Aircraft. |
| C.O.W. Gun Fighter | 1930 | Fighter Aircraft |
| PV-3 | 1931 | Torpedo Bomber |
| PV-6 | 1943 | Prototype Wallace Biplane |
| PV-7 | 1933 | Military General Purpose Aircraft |
| Lysander | 1938 | British Army liaison aircraft. |
| Welkin | 1944 | Heavy high-altitude fighter aircraft. |
| Wyvern | 1953 | Multi-role strike aircraft. |
| Westland Aircraft - Fixed Wing | ||
Helicopters
| Note: Built by Westland Helicopters. |
| Note: Built by AgustaWestland. |
| Westland Aircraft - Helicopters | ||
| Model | Date | Detail |
| Westland-Lepere Autogiro | ||
| CL.20 | 1934 | A two-seater autogiro built by Westland. One built. |
| Dragonfly | 1950 | License-built version of the American Sikorsky S-51. |
| Whirlwind | 1954 | British licence-built version of the U.S. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw. |
| Widgeon | 1955 | Improvement on the Westland WS-51 Dragonfly. |
| Wessex | 1958 | Developed and produced by both Westland Aircraft and Westland Helicopters. |
| Westminster | 1958 | Heavy Lift Helicopter |
| Scout | 1960 | |
| Wasp | 1962 | |
| Sioux AH.1 /HT.2 | 1945 | |
| Sea King | 1969 | |
| Puma | 1968 | |
| Gazelle | 1973 | |
| Lynx | 1978 | |
| 30 | 1982 | |
| AW101 (Merlin) | 1999 | |
| Apache | 2004 | |
| Westland Aircraft - Fixed Wing | ||
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Sources of Information
- The Encyclopedia of British Military Aircraft by Chaz Bowyer. Published in 1982. ISBN 1-85841-031-2
- [1] Wikipedia
- Warplanes of the World 1918-1939 by Michael J. H. Taylor. Published 1981. ISBN 0-7110-1078-1