List of de Havilland Heron operators explained

There are few remaining flying examples of de Havilland Heron. The following are owners or former operators of the aircraft:

♠ Original operators

Military operators

• Force Publique ♠

Ceylon

• Royal Ceylon Air Force ♠
• Sri Lanka Air Force

• West German Air Force ♠

Ghana Air Force

Iraq

• Royal Iraqi Air Force ♠^[1]

• Jordan Arab Air Force ♠
• Royal Jordanian Air Force

Katanga

• Katangese Air Force

• Directorate of Civil Aviation

• Kuwait Air Force

• Royal Malaysian Air Force ♠

Morocco

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

South Africa

• South African Air Force

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

Civil operators

• 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 Airways ♠

• Gulf Aviation

• Sabena

• TAS – Transportes Aéreos Salvador ♠

• Department of Transport
• Newfoundland Air Transport

• Air Ivoire

• ACES Colombia

• Cimber Air
• Dan-Fly
• Falcks Flyvetjeneste ♠

• Air Pacific
• Fiji Airways

• Air Paris
• Union Aéromaritime de Transport ♠

• Ghana Airways ♠

• Aeroservice S de RL

• Indian Airlines ♠

• Garuda Indonesia ♠

• Itavia
• Avio Linee Siciliane^[4]

• British West Indian Airways

• All Nippon Airways
• Fuji Airlines
• Japan Air Lines ♠
• Japan Air Services
• Toa Domestic Airline

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

• Air North
• National Airways Corporation ♠

• Braathens SAFE ♠ : 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.

• Transportes Aéreos de Timor

• Prinair

• Air Trans Africa

• Transportes Aéreos São Tomé

• St. Lucia Airways

• Sierra Leone Airways

• Aviaco ♠

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

• Sky of Siam

• Tongair

• Devlet Hava Yolları ♠
• Türk Hava Yolları

• Air Ecosse
• British Airways
• British European Airways ♠
• British United Airways
• British Westpoint Airlines
• Cambrian Airways ♠
• Channel Airways
• Cunard Eagle Airways
• Dragon Airways ♠
• Fairflight
• Ferranti
• Jersey Airlines ♠
• Mercury Airlines
• Morton Air Services
• Peters Aviation
• Progressive Airways
• Silver City Airways

• Air Idaho
• Air Pacific
• Albany Aero Club^[5]
• 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

• PLUNA ♠

References

• Complete Civil Registers: 5: CR-T: Portuguese Timor . Archive . . 1982 . 2 . 32 . 0262-4923 . .
• The Royal Moroccan Air Force...A Seasoned Air Arm . . November 1985 . 29 . 5 . 226–232, 250–252 . 0306-5634.

Notes and References

1. Book: Sipos . Milos . Cooper . Tom . Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 1931-1970 . 2020 . Helion & Company Publishing . Warwick, UK . 978-1-913118-74-7 . 40.
2. Air International November 1985, p. 229.
3. Web site: BTE Working Paper 41: page 14.
4. World Airline Survey. Flight. 12 April 1962. 557.
5. Web site: Home. Albany Aero Club.