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

 Belgian Congo
Ceylon
 Germany
 Ghana
Ghana Air Force
 Iraq
  • Royal Iraqi Air Force ♠
 Jordan
Katanga
 Kenya
  • Directorate of Civil Aviation
 Kuwait
 Malaysia
 Morocco
 South Africa
 United Kingdom

Civil operators

 Australia
 Bahamas
  • Bahamas Airways
 Bahrain
 Belgium
 Brazil
 Canada
  • Department of Transport
  • Newfoundland Air Transport
 Ivory Coast
 Colombia
 Denmark
  • Cimber Air
  • Dan-Fly
  • Falcks Flyvetjeneste
 Fiji
 France
 Ghana
 Honduras
  • Aeroservice S de RL
 India
 Indonesia
 Italy
 Jamaica
  • British West Indian Airways
 Japan
  • All Nippon Airways
  • Fuji Airlines
  • Japan Air Lines ♠
  • Japan Air Services
  • Toa Domestic Airline
 Nigeria
 New Zealand
 Norway
  • Braathens SAFE ♠ : 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.
 Puerto Rico
 Rhodesia
 São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Transportes Aéreos São Tomé
 Saint Lucia
 Sierra Leone
 Spain
 Sweden
  • Västerås Flygande Museum : US-registered example operated by museum. (modified with boxer engines).
 Thailand
  • Sky of Siam

 Tonga

  • Tongair
 Turkey
 United Kingdom
Heron 2D operated by Ferranti as an executive transport 1962-1970
 United States
  • Air Idaho
  • Air Pacific
  • Albany Aero Club[4]
  • 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
 Uruguay

References

  1. Air International November 1985, p. 229.
  2. BTE Working Paper 41: page 14
  3. "World Airline Survey". Flight: 557. 12 April 1962.
  4. Albany Aero Club
  • "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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