Hiller Aircraft

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Hiller Aircraft Company was founded by Stanley Hiller in 1942 to develop helicopters. It was renamed Hiller Helicopters in 1948, and purchased by Fairchild in 1964. It was involved in the development of a number of prototype helicopters. Stanley Hiller repurchased the company in 1973.

List of Hiller aircraft:

• Hiller XH-44
• Hiller X-2-235
• Hiller J-5
• Hiller UH-4 "Commuter"
• Hiller UH-5B "Rotormatic"
• Hiller UH-12 (HTE-1, OH-23)
• Hiller HH-120 "Hornet"
• Hiller HJ-1
• VZ-1 Pawnee "Flying Platform"
• YH-32 Hornet (YH-32, HOE-1, YH-32 ULV)
• Hiller autogyro
• Hiller ROE-1
• Hiller X-18
• Hiller Ten99
• Fairchild Hiller FH-1100

Stanley Hiller donated money and a number of aircraft to form the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California, which opened in 1998.

[edit] External links

• All the World's Rotocraft page about Hiller
• The manufacturer's home page