List of most-produced rotorcraft

This is a list of the most-produced rotorcraft. Production runs typically include variants and licensed production. Aircraft still in production are highlighted in blue.

Name	Number produced	Nation	Notes	Production period
Mil Mi-8	17,000 +	Soviet Union/Russia	Most-produced helicopter. Still in production.	1961–present
Bell UH-1 Iroquois	11,582 +	United States	Most-produced Western helicopter; nicknamed "Huey". UH-1Y derivate in production.	1959–1976
Bell 206 Jetranger	8,460	manufactured at Bell plants in United States and Canada	Also made under licence by Agusta in Italy and Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Australia	1966–2010
Bell 47	5,600	United States	Produced under license by Agusta in Italy, Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan, and Westland Aircraft in the United Kingdom.	1946-1974
Mil Mi-2	5,497	Soviet Union, Poland	Produced only in Poland.	1965–1998
Robinson R44	5,324 +	United States		1993–present
Hughes OH-6 Cayuse	4,700^[1]	United States	In production as MD-500 series. Also built under licence by Kawasaki, Korean Air Aerospace and Breda Nardi (Agusta).	1965–present
Robinson R22	4,484 +	United States		1979–present
Eurocopter AS350	4,105 +^[2]	France		1975–present
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk	4,000 +	United States	S-70 family: UH-60A (1978–1989), UH-60L (1989-2007), UH-60M (2005-), SH-60 Seahawk (1979-), in Japan as Mitsubishi H-60 (1987-).	1978–present
Mil Mi-4	4,000	Soviet Union	In China as Z-5.	1951-1979
Hughes TH-55 Osage	2,800 +	United States	Later as Schweizer S-300.	1961-
Mil Mi-1	2,594	Soviet Union	In Poland as SM-1.	1950-1965
Sikorsky H-34	2,464	United States	Also as Westland Wessex.	1954-1970
Bell AH-1 Cobra	2,208^[3]	United States	AH-1Z model still in production.	1967–present
Aérospatiale Alouette III	2,000 +	France	Built under licence in India as HAL Chetak and in Romania as IAR 316.	1961-1985
Mil Mi-24	2,000 +	Soviet Union/Russia	Mi-35M version still in limited production.	1969–present
Hiller OH-23 Raven	1,836 +	United States		1948-?
Aérospatiale Gazelle	1,775	France		1967-1996
Sikorsky H-19	1,500+	United States	Made under licence in United Kingdom, France and Japan.	1950-?
MBB Bo 105	1,500	Germany		1967-2001
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King	1,300 +	United States	Sikorsky S-61 family, also made by Westland, Agusta and Mitsubishi.	1959-1970s
Aérospatiale Alouette II	1,300	France		1956-1975
Bell 407	1,100+	United States		1995–
Boeing CH-47 Chinook	1,179 +^[4]	United States	Built under licence by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Elicotteri Meridionali (Agusta).	1962–present
Eurocopter EC135	1,000 +^[5]	Germany		1994–present

References

^ The MD Helicopters MD-500/530. Retrieved on January 16, 2008.
^ AS350 Ecureuil. deagel.com
^ Last U.S. Army Operational UH-1 Huey Gone.
^ "CH-47D/F Chinook page". Boeing.
^ Eurocopter officially hands over its 1,000th EC135 helicopter to the ADAC, 2011-07-21

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List of most-produced rotorcraft