Hillberg Helicopters Explained

Hillberg Helicopters
Type:Privately held company
Fate:Out of business
Founder:Donald Gene Hillberg
Defunct:after 1998
Hq Location City:Fountain Valley, California
Hq Location Country:United States
Industry:Aerospace
Products:Kit aircraft

Hillberg Helicopters was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Fountain Valley, California and founded by Donald Gene Hillberg. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of helicopters in the form of kits for amateur construction.[1]

The company offered a turbine conversion kit for the Rotorway Exec, using a Solar T62 auxiliary power unit engine to create the Hillberg Turbine Exec. The Hillberg EH1-01 RotorMouse was a single-seat helicopter with stub-wings. At least one example of each design was flown.[1] [2]

A Hillberg EH1-02 TandemMouse, two-seats-in-tandem version of the RotorMouse design was proposed and construction of a prototype commenced.[1]

Aircraft

+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"Summary of aircraft built by Hillberg Helicopters
Model nameFirst flightNumber builtType
Hillberg Turbine Exec1990sat least oneTurbine conversion of the Rotorway Exec
Hillberg EH1-01 RotorMouse1993at least oneTurbine single-seat helicopter

Notes and References

  1. Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 324-325 and 352. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.
  2. Web site: N-Number Inquiry Results - N10TE. 30 March 2015. Federal Aviation Administration. 30 March 2015. April 2, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402172511/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=10TE. dead.