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).
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.