Sparrowhawk (disambiguation)

Sparrowhawk is a name applied to several bird species.

Sparrowhawk or sparrow hawk may also refer to:

Ships

  • HMS Sparrowhawk, the name of several ships belonging to the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom
  • Sparrow Hawk (pinnace), an English ship that wrecked on Cape Cod in New England in 1626, and is currently owned by the Pilgrim Hall Museum

Aircraft

  • AAI Sparrowhawk, a two-seat homebuilt gyroplane
  • Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk, a light biplane fighter aircraft, formerly carried by the United States Navy airships USS Akron and USS Macon
  • Gloster Sparrowhawk British single-seat fighter aircraft
  • Miles Sparrowhawk, British single-seat racing and touring monoplane
  • Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero (Sparrowhawk in Italian), a three-engined Italian medium bomber
  • Soko J-20 Kraguj (English: Soko J-20 Sparrowhawk), Yugoslavian light ground-attack and training aircraft
  • Windward Performance SparrowHawk, a high-performance ultralight sailplane
  • Sparrowhawk, the call sign given to civilian aircraft carrying members of the British Royal Family or which has 'royal flight' status

Other uses

  • Operation Epervier (English: Operation Sparrowhawk) (1986present), codename for the French military presence in Chad
  • Sparrowhawk Hill, Cayman Islands
  • Sparrowhawk Media, British media company
  • Sparrowhawk, a series of novels by Edward Cline
  • Mount Sparrowhawk, Canadian Rockies
  • The common name of Ged (Earthsea), main protagonist in the Earthsea novels by Ursula Le Guin


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