Aircraft Data Sheet: Skeeter

Skeeter
First flight: October 1948
Rotor diameter: 9.75m/32ft 0ins
Length: 8.66m/28ft 5ins
Max weight: 1,010kg/2,250lb
Max speed: 175 kph/94knots
Power: One 215shp/160kW Gypsy Major 215
Accommodation: Pilot plus one
No Built: 88

With the acquisition of Saunders-Roe Westland became responsible for the Skeeter, which was in service with the Army Air Corps and the German Army as a light observation helicopter.