The Aérospatiale Alouette II (Lark) is a light helicopter originally manufactured by Sud Aviation and later Aérospatiale, both of France. The Alouette II was the first production helicopter to use a gas turbine engine instead of the conventional heavier piston powerplant.
The Alouette II was mostly used for military purposes in observation, photography, air-sea rescue, liaison and training, but it has also carried anti-tank missiles and homing torpedoes. As a civilian helicopter it was used for casualty evacuation (with two external stretcher panniers), crop-spraying and as a flying crane (with a 500 kg external under-slung load).
Users
Austria
Belgium
Benin
- Military of Benin
Brazil
- Cambodia
- Cameroun
- Central African Republic
- Congo
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- France
- Germany
- Guinea-Bissau
- Militay of Guinea-Bissau
- Indonesia
- Israel
- Ivory Coast
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Madagascar
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Peru
- Portugal
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tunisia
