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Light utility helicopterFrance · 1960 · Active

HAL Chetak

Single-engine, light utility helicopter developed by French aircraft company Sud Aviation.

Practising deck landing on the runway
Photo via Wikimedia by Christian Hanuise, licensed GFDL 1.2.
Overview

About the Chetak

The Aérospatiale Alouette III (French pronunciation: [alwɛt], Lark; company designations SA 316 and SA 319) is a single-engine, light utility helicopter developed by French aircraft company Sud Aviation.

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