Aircraft Data Sheet: 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.