World helicopters
(and other rotorcrafts)
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This list contain all kinds of helicopters with civil registration. A helicopter can also be named by the generic terms rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft. In the English language, a helicopter can also be named by using several other names, including short names and nicknames, for example chopper, copter, eggbeater, whirlybird, hover plane, heli, helo, huey. |
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World non-civilian helicopters This list contain all kinds of helicopters with non-civil registration, i.e. military helicopters and other non-civilian helicopters. Military helicopters and other non-civilian helicopters are often named by using several shortened names and nicknames, in addition to numerous codenames that also may be used. |
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This list contain all kinds of gyrocopters. A gyrocopter is commonly named as autogyro, but can also be named as gyroplane, autocopter or rotaplane, as well as by the generic terms rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft. The word gyrocopter (or autogyro) origin from greek (α’υτός + γύρος) which simply means self-turning as a gyrocopter uses an unpowered rotor in autorotation to obtain lift. |
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World drones (RPAS / UAS / UAV) This list contain all kinds of drones with multiple rotors.
A drone with multiple rotors can also be named as multicopter, as well as by the generic term rotorcraft. In general, a drone can be named by the common terms RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System), UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) or UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), as well as several other terms that also can be used, for example Nano-UAS or NUAS (Nano Unmanned Aircraft System = very small drones) and HALE (High-Altitude Lone-Endurance). More specifically, based on the number of rotors, a drone with multiple rotors can be named as dicopter (2 rotors), tricopter (3 rotors), quadcopter or tetracopter or quadricopter (4 rotors), pentacopter or petacopter (5 rotors), hexacopter (6 rotors), heptacopter or septicopter (7 rotors), octocopter or octacopter (8 rotors), enneacopter or nonacopter (9 rotors), decacopter (10 rotors), dodecacopter (12 rotors), tetrakaidecacopter (14 rotors), hexakaidecacopter (16 rotors), octokaidecacopter (18 rotors), icosicopter (20 rotors) or icosikaitetracopter (24 rotors). For special or experimental purposes, drones with even more rotors has been made, for example pentacontakaitetracopter with 54 rotors! |
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