Airmaster
Airmaster Helicopters Ltd.
Airmaster Helicopters Ltd was formed in Camberley, Surrey by D.J. Fry
in 1971 to design and manufacture the lightest, smallest, simplest and lowest cost two-seater helicopter. The resulting machine,
the H2-B1, was a development of the American Helicom H-II Commuter, designed by Harold E. Emigh. Construction of the prototype
H2-B1 commenced in September 1970, was completed in January 1972 and was first flown in February 1972. In mid-1972, the machine
migrated to Redhill airfield in Surrey, UK, where it was to spend some time under the watchful eye of the Cierva Organisation,
the object being to develop the machine into a production H2-B2 with streamlined fuselage and monocoque tailboom. However,
things seemed to grind to a halt for one reason or another, not least of all being the winding up of the Cierva Organisation.
The aircraft was subsequently seen at Blackbushe Airfield, Hampshire, by the autumn of 1977, where it was reported to be ‘long
past airworthy’, the aircraft’s CofA having expired on February 13th 1973.
Project Data
Project No |
Type
No | Name | Alternative Name(s) | Year |
Spec
(Requirement) | Status | Qty | Description |
References |
|
H2-B1 | | | 1972 |
| Proto | 1 |
2S
helicopter | 1,2,3,4 | | H2-B2 |
| | 1972 |
| Proj | 0 |
2S
helicopter | 1,2,3,4 |
One aircraft only : G-AYNS, c/n 1. First flew
September, 1972.
Total Airmaster Production
1
|