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

• Force Publique ♠

Ceylon

• Royal Ceylon Air Force ♠
• Sri Lanka Air Force

  Germany

• West German Air Force ♠

  Ghana

Ghana Air Force

  Iraq

• Royal Iraqi Air Force ♠ ^[1]

  Jordan

• Jordan Arab Air Force ♠
• Royal Jordanian Air Force

Katanga

• Katangese Air Force

  Kenya

• Directorate of Civil Aviation

  Kuwait

• Kuwait Air Force

  Malaysia

• Royal Malaysian Air Force ♠

  Morocco

• Royal Moroccan Air Force purchased a single Heron on formation in 1956. ^[2]

  South Africa

• South African Air Force

  United Kingdom

• Royal Air Force ♠
  • No. 60 Squadron RAF
  • Queen's Flight
• Fleet Air Arm
  • 781 Naval Air Squadron

Civil operators

  Australia

• 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

  Bahamas

• Bahamas Airways ♠

  Bahrain

• Gulf Aviation

  Belgium

• Sabena

  Brazil

• TAS – Transportes Aéreos Salvador ^[4] ♠

  Canada

• Department of Transport
• Newfoundland Air Transport

  Ivory Coast

• Air Ivoire

  Colombia

• ACES Colombia

  Denmark

• Cimber Air
• Dan-Fly
• Falcks Flyvetjeneste ♠

  Fiji

• Air Pacific
• Fiji Airways ^[4]

  France

• Air Paris
• Union Aéromaritime de Transport ^[4] ♠

  Ghana

• Ghana Airways ♠

  Honduras

• Aeroservice S de RL

  India

• Indian Airlines ^[4] ♠

  Indonesia

• Garuda Indonesia ^[4] ♠

  Italy

• Itavia ^[4]
• Avio Linee Siciliane ^[5]

  Jamaica

• British West Indian Airways

  Japan

• All Nippon Airways ^[4]
• Fuji Airlines
• Japan Air Lines ♠
• Japan Air Services
• Toa Domestic Airline ^[4]

  Nigeria

• Nigeria Airways
• West African Airways Corporation ^[4] (joint venture between Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Ghana) ♠

  New Zealand

• Air North
• National Airways Corporation ^[4] ♠

  Norway

• 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.

  Portuguese Timor

• Transportes Aéreos de Timor ^[6]

  Puerto Rico

• Prinair ^[4]

  Rhodesia

• Air Trans Africa

  São Tomé and Príncipe

• Transportes Aéreos São Tomé

  Saint Lucia

• St. Lucia Airways

  Sierra Leone

• Sierra Leone Airways

  Spain

• Aviaco ^[4] ♠

  Sweden

• Västerås Flygande Museum  : US-registered example operated by museum. (modified with boxer engines).

  Thailand

• Sky of Siam

  Tonga

• Tongair

  Turkey

• Devlet Hava Yolları ^[4] ♠
• Türk Hava Yolları

  United Kingdom

Heron 2D operated by Ferranti as an executive transport 1962-1970

• 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]

  United States

• 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

  Uruguay

• PLUNA ^[4] ♠

References

1. 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.
2. Air International November 1985 , p. 229
3. "BTE Working Paper 41: page 14" (PDF). Bureau of Infrastructure & Transport Research Economics .
4. Stroud 1997 , p. 63
5. "World Airline Survey". Flight: 557. 12 April 1962.
6. Archive 1982, No. 2 , p. 32
7. "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.