List of rotorcraft manufacturers by country
Rotorcraft manufacturers fall into two categories:
- those that can design, certify and manufacture new designs from scratch and
- those that can only manufacture extant designs under license.
Boeing Vertol is an example of the first type and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, who license-produced Boeing Vertol designs for much of its recent history, is an example of the second.
Argentina
- AeroDreams
- Chincul
- Cicaré
- FAdeA
- Pateras-Pescara
- RACA S.A.
Australia
- Australian Aerospace – a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter
Belgium
- Dynali Helicopter Company – light helicopter manufacturer
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- SOKO – no longer produces aircraft
Brazil
- Baumgartl
- Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento
- Helibras – now a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter
Canada
- Airbus Helicopters Canada (previously Eurocopter Canada)
- Avian Aircraft
- Bell Helicopter – all of Bell Helicopter's commercial rotorcraft are produced at their plant in Mirabel, Quebec.
- CHR International
- Safari Helicopter – kit manufacturer
China
- Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation
- Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation
- Hongdu Aviation Industry Group
- Qingdao Haili Helicopters
- Red Eagle Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Sichuan Lantian Helicopter Company Limited
Czech Republic
Egypt
- Arab British Helicopter Company – no longer producers of helicopters
France
- Aérospatiale – now part of Eurocopter
- Breguet Aviation
- Citroën – development and flight tests only
- Etablissements Charles Dechaux
- Gaucher Remicopter
- Helicopteres Guimbal
- Nord Aviation – in 1970, merged with Sud Aviation to create Société Nationale d'Industrie Aérospatiale (SNIAS), later renamed Aérospatiale and ultimately merged into European aerospace corporation EADS in 2000
- Sud Aviation – became part of Aérospatiale, now part of Airbus Helicopters (formerly Eurocopter Group)
Germany
- Bölkow – merged with Messerschmitt AG to become Messerschmitt-Bölkow and later Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm
- Dornier Flugzeugwerke – no longer produces aircraft
- Flettner – no longer in business
- Focke-Achgelis – no longer in business
- Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm – became part of Airbus Helicopter
- Youngcopter – develops a kit helicopter
India
- Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
- Mahindra Aerospace
- Tata Advanced Systems
- National Aerospace Laboratories[citation needed]
Indonesia
- Indonesian Aerospace – formerly known as Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) or Industri Pesawat Terbang Nurtanio (IPTN)
Iran
Italy
- Aero Eli Servizi Costruzioni Aeronautiche
- AgustaWestland
- Elicotteri Meridionali – now called the Sesto Calende (VA) facility of Agusta
- Alpi Aviation
- DF Helicopters Srl
- Fiat – in 1969, Fiat Aviazione merged with Aerfer to create Aeritalia
- Heli-Sport
- Konner Srl
- Partenavia – declared bankruptcy and Vulcanair bought all the assets, design rights and trademarks
- Piaggio Aero
- Silvercraft – went out of business in the late 1970s
Japan
Korea (ROK)
- Korea Aerospace Industries (aka KAI)
Netherlands
New Zealand
- Mosquito Aviation
Poland
- PZL-Świdnik WSK – now part of AgustaWestland
Romania
- IAR – the sole Romanian manufacturer of helicopters
Russia
- Bratukhin – a helicopter design bureau dissolved in 1951
- Russian Helicopters (a division of Oboronprom)
- Yakovlev – no longer produces helicopters
Serbia
- EDePro – developed a tip jet helicopter
South Africa
- Atlas Aircraft Corporation – became Denel Aviation
- Denel Aviation
- RotorWay South Africa
Spain
- Aerotécnica
- AISA (Aeronáutica Industrial S.A.) – part of CASA and no longer produces rotorcraft
- ELA Aviación
- Eurocopter España – located in Madrid and Albacete
Switzerland
- Berger-Helicopter (defunct)
- Marenco Swisshelicopter – founded in 2007
- SKT Helicopter
Taiwan
Turkey
- Turkish Aerospace Industries (aka TAI or TUSAŞ)
Ukraine
- Aerokopter (formerly DB Aercopters)
- Aviaimpex[citation needed]
- Aviakon[citation needed]
- Skyline Construction Bureau[citation needed]
- ViAZ[citation needed]
United Kingdom
- Airmaster Helicopters (defunct)
- Bristol Aeroplane Company – now part of BAE Systems and no longer produces aircraft
- Cierva Autogiro Company (defunct)
- Fairey Aviation – aircraft manufacturing arm was taken over by Westland Aircraft in 1960
- Firth Helicopters
- Gadfly Aircraft (defunct)
- Saro – merged with Westland Aircraft, later Agusta-Westland
- Thruxton Aviation
- Wallis Autogyros
- Westland Aircraft – merged with the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe (with their hovercraft) to create Westland Helicopters in 1961
- Westland Helicopters – now part of AgustaWestland
United States
- A-B Helicopters
- Aerodyne Systems Engineering (defunct)
- AirScooter Corporation
- American Eurocopter – founded as Vought Helicopter Inc, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Eurocopter
- American Helicopter
- Aviodyne U.S.A.
- Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company
- Bell Helicopter
- Bendix Helicopter Company (defunct)
- Bensen Aircraft Company (defunct)
- Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters & Boeing-Vertol)
- Brantly International – all manufacturing is done in Qingdao, China
- Campbell Aircraft Company (defunct)
- Carter Aviation Technologies
- Cessna
- Columbia Helicopters
- Curtiss-Wright
- Doman Helicopters
- Enstrom Helicopter Corporation
- Erickson Air-Crane
- Fairchild Aircraft
- FH1100 Manufacturing Corporation
- Glenview Metal Products
- Goodyear
- Gyrodyne Company of America
- Higgins Industries (defunct) – no longer produces aircraft
- Hiller Aircraft
- Hillman Helicopter
- Hughes Aircraft
- Kaman Aircraft
- Lockheed Martin – formerly Lockheed Aircraft
- MD Helicopters – formerly McDonnell Douglas Corp
- Piasecki Aircraft
- Piasecki Helicopter – acquired by Boeing and became Boeing Vertol
- Revolution Helicopter Corporation (defunct) – went out of business in November 1999
- Robinson Helicopter
- RotorWay International – produces kit helicopters
- Sikorsky Aircraft
- Schweizer Aircraft – acquired by Sikorsky Aircraft in 2004 and closed down in 2011 and 2012
- Spitfire Helicopter Company
- Texas Helicopters Co (no longer manufacturers)
- Umbaugh
- Vertical Aviation Technologies
- Vought Helicopter Inc. (VHI) – a subsidiary of Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV); became American Eurocopter
- NASA/JPL for Ingenuity helicopter