* The United States Navy tank landing ship, fitted with a miniature flight deck, begins operations off Wonsan, Korea, with a detachment of two HO3S helicopters from Utility Helicopter Squadron 1 ( UH-1 ).

650 marines and 23 tons of equipment were flown in ten Westland Whirlwind Mark 2s of 845 Naval Air Squadron from the deck of the HMS Theseus, and six each Whirlwinds and Bristol Sycamore HC. 12s and HC. 14s off HMS Ocean's embarked Joint Experimental Helicopter Unit ( JEHU ) ( Royal Air Force ).

Cargo Helicopter loadmasters provide aircraft clearance information and direct pilots to safe positions when landing and taking off.

Copterline Helicopter taking off from Helsinki-Malmi airport

The Helicopter Division started out at the main Bristol Aeroplane Company site in Filton, but from 1955 it was moved to the Old Mixton factory in Weston-Super-Mare, which had been used to build Blenheims during the War.

Helicopter main and tail rotors produce aerodynamic noise.

Helicopter noise is aerodynamically induced noise from the main and tail rotors and mechanically induced noise from the main gearbox and various transmission chains.

One of the last projects started by Curtiss Aeroplane was the ambitious Curtiss-Bleecker SX-5-1 Helicopter, a design that had propellers located midpoint on each of the four large rotors that drove the main rotors.

It opened on September 16, 2000, and is a station on the TRE commuter line, serving the city of Hurst, Texas and the main plant of Bell Helicopter Textron ( which is physically located in Fort Worth, across the street from the station ).

* 724 Sea King Helicopter and Apollo Spacecraft Capsule ( 1971 ) – motorised main rotor.

* February 27 – A U. S. Navy helicopter of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron ( HM-12 ) flies the first air mine countermeasures mission in the main shipping channel at Haiphong, North Vietnam.

The base remained as the home of the Commando Helicopter Squadrons, using the Wessex HU. 5 and later the Sea King HC. 4, and the fixed wing Fleet Requirements and Aircraft Direction Unit ( FRADU ) and became the main shore base for the Navy's fleet of Sea Harrier FRS. 1 ( and later, FA. 2s ).

It passes near the main facility of Bell Helicopter Textron.

The base also uses a portion of the nearby island of Niihau for a remotely operated APS-134 surveillance radar, an Test Vehicle Recovery Site, the Perch Electronic Warfare site, multiple EW Portable Simulator sites, and a Helicopter Terrain Flight training course.

There are seven domes, Dumbbells, Contour, Hoodoo, Malloch, Haakon, Helicopter and Isachsen Dome ( 260m ) which is the highest point on the island.

On July 1, 1976, the red wolf became the official mascot of the United States Navy's premier Naval Special Warfare Support Helicopter Squadron, HAL-4.

The Bell AH-1G ' HueyCobra ' US Army Helicopter ( 920 ) was issued in March 1975, the German Hanomag Sdkfz 251 Semi-Track Rocket Launcher ( 907 ) in July 1975 and the Sikorsky Skycrane US Army Helicopter ( 923 ) in September 1975.

* July 25 – On Okinawa, the U. S. Army forms its first armed helicopter company, the Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter Company ( UTTHCO ) using Bell HU-1A (" Huey ") helicopters equipped with machine guns and air-to-ground rockets.

* USAF Helicopter Pilot School, 1 July 1956 – 1 July 1958

The first test flight of the prototype Model 30 occurred in July 1943, and on March 8, 1946 the company received Helicopter Type Certificate H-1 for the world's first commercial helicopter, the Bell Model 47.

On 22 July the other companies of 2 / 4 joined Company H and began patrolling through Helicopter Valley.

In Helicopter Valley, 2 / 4 Marines was replaced by 2 / 9 Marines on 26 July and on 27 July 1 / 3 and 2 / 9 and marched south out of the valley.

* 29 July The U. S. Army awards a contract for the purchase of 368 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters ( ARH ) to Bell Helicopter Textron.

It was formed in July 1982, following the introduction of the Chinook HC MK1 Helicopter.

The activation of the 23d Helicopter Squadron on 9 July 1956, was the result of the inactivation of the 516th Troop Carrier Group ( Assault, Rotary Wing ).

The “ 20 ” series Helicopter Squadrons were activated at Sewart AFB, Tennessee on 9 July 1956, assigned to 18th Air Force and attached to the 314th Troop Carrier Wing.

* Redesignated and reactivated as: 23d Helicopter Squadron on 9 July 1956

The Gyrodyne Company of America was founded in 1946 by Peter J. Papadakos ( 26 July 1914 to 26 May 1992 ), using the assets he bought from the bankrupt Bendix Helicopter Company that was developing a one-man synchronized co-axial rotor helicopter.

* Budgie the Little Helicopter books and 1994 animated children ’ s television series:

CHC acquired British International Helicopters in 1994 ; Helicopter Services Group of Norway in 1999 ( including Bond Helicopters ), Helikopter Service AS, Lloyd Helicopters of Australia and Court Helicopters of South Africa.

A helicopter from the U. S. Coast Guard's Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron pursues a go-fast boat during training

* Superior Helicopter, a heavy lift helicopter operator of Glendale, Oregon

The Bristol Aeroplane Company's Helicopter Division had its roots in 1944, when the helicopter designer Raoul Hafner, released from the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment ( AFEE ), came to Bristol along with some members of his team.

After the Type 171, the Bristol Helicopter Division started work on a tandem rotor civil helicopter.

The Type 194 was in an advanced state of design when the Bristol Helicopter Division was merged, as a result of government influence, with the helicopter interests of other British aircraft manufacturers ( Westland, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ) to form Westland Helicopters in 1960.

* Marine Medium Helicopter Squadrons, United States Marine Corps squadrons that fly the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter.

* Wingless Helicopter Flies Straight Up September 1940 Popular Mechanics article showing Sikorsky flying his first helicopter and introducing him to the general public

In 2006 Piaggio Aero Industries has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada to acquire 25 % of the share capital of P & WC Turbo Engines Corp., which is in charge of the production of the PW206 – PW207 helicopter engines which fits out many helicopter models such as the Agusta A109 Power ', the Eurocopter EC / 135, the Bell Helicopter B427, the MD Helicopters MD900 and the Kazan Ansat.

For example, in Hawker Pacific Pty Ltd v Helicopter Charter Pty Ltd ( 1991 ) 22 NSWLR 298, the contract was set aside after Hawker Pacific's threats to withhold the helicopter from the plaintiff unless further payments were made for repairing a botched paint job.

* Helicopter rotor, the rotary wing ( s ) of a rotorcraft such as a helicopter

* January 25 – Bell Helicopter delivers its 25, 000th production helicopter, a Bell 222 to Omniflight Helicopters.

A Bell 214 helicopter piloted by Major Deo Cruz of the 205th Helicopter Wing and Sikorsky S-76 gunships piloted by Colonel Charles Hotchkiss of the 20th Air Commando Squadron joined the rebel squadron earlier in the air.

* Commando Helicopter Force, a helicopter force of the British Armed Forces

The first Marine Aircraft Wing was developed at Quantico, as well as the Corps ' first helicopter squadron, Marine Helicopter Squadron One ( HMX-1 ), the first helicopter squadron to provide rapid transportation for Presidents of the United States (" Marine One ").

* Hawker-Siddeley Helicrane-a cancelled flying crane helicopter project in three variants, HS ( Helicopter Small ), HM ( Helicopter Medium ) and HL ( Helicopter Large ).

During the Second World War the RAF Staff College was the headquarters of RAF Maintenance Command, and gained a unique place in British history, as the first British military helicopter unit, the Helicopter Training School, was formed in January 1945 at RAF Andover.

He was founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, which is responsible for many well-known Soviet helicopter models.

Located in the former Stratford railroad station, the National Helicopter Museum contains a photographic history of the helicopter and model helicopters.

* Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant, a Soviet / Russian helicopter manufacturer named after Mikhail Mil

Mil Helicopters () is the short name of the Soviet Russian helicopter producer Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant () ( design bureau prefix Mi ), named after the constructor Mikhail Mil.