The Westland Wyvern is a British single-seat carrier-based multi-role strike aircraft built by Westland Aircraft that served in the 1950s, seeing service in the 1956 Suez Crisis. Production Wyverns were powered by a turboprop engine driving large and distinctive contra-rotating propellers, and could carry aerial torpedoes.
Westland Wyvern
A Wyvern prototype with the Rolls-Royce Eagle piston engine
Wyvern S.4 strike aircraft of 813 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Stretton in 1955
Wyvern TF.2 being demonstrated at the Farnborough Air Show in 1953 by a Westland pilot
Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil, Somerset. Formed as a separate company by separation from Petters Limited just before the start of the Second World War, Westland had been building aircraft since 1915. During the war the company produced a number of generally unsuccessful designs, but their Lysander would serve as an important liaison aircraft with the Royal Air Force. After the war the company focused on helicopters, and was merged with several other British firms to create Westland Helicopters in 1961.
Westland Wapiti
Westland Whirlwind heavy fighter
Westland WS-51 Dragonfly
Westland Lysander