Westland Wasp
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The Westland Wasp is a small 1960s British turbine-powered, shipboard anti-submarine helicopter. Produced by Westland Helicopters, it came from the same Saunders-Roe P.531 programme as the British Army Westland Scout, and is based on the earlier piston-engined Saunders-Roe Skeeter. It fulfilled the requirement of the Royal Navy for a helicopter small enough to land on the deck of a frigate and carry a useful load of two homing torpedoes.
Westland Wasp
First Wasp at the SBAC show 1962, a month before the first flight
Wasp from HMS Galatea landing personnel on Aldabra atoll, Indian Ocean (1970)
Wasp HAS.1 (AH-12A) of the Dutch Koninklijke Marine, 1967
Westland Helicopters
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Westland Helicopters was a British aircraft manufacturer. Originally Westland Aircraft, the company focused on helicopters after the Second World War. It was amalgamated with several other British firms in 1960 and 1961.
Entrance to AgustaWestland's works in Yeovil, England
Privately owned ex-military Westland Scout AH.1 (XV134)
UK Army Air Corps Westland Apache WAH-64D Longbow displays at a UK airshow
Privately owned ex-military Westland Wasp HAS.1.