The Saunders-Roe Skeeter is a two-seat training and scout helicopter that was developed and produced by British manufacturer Saunders-Roe ("Saro") of Cowes and Southampton, in the United Kingdom.
Skeeter hangs in a museum
Saunders-Roe Skeeter AOP12 XL 814 at Middle Wallop, 1994
Doors open (preserved example, 2018)
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.
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