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VAT Hummingbird

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Kitbuilt single piston helicopter, includes Hummingbird 260L (no longer offered), Hummingbird 300LS (no longer offered), Hummingbird 300L, and VerdeGo Aero Speedbird demonstrator variants.

Photo: Vertical Aviation Technologies

Lift type

Rotary wing

Assembly

Kit-built

Control

Piloted, Autonomous

Engine type

Piston

Application

Utility

Design & construction

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Airframe & structure

Landing gear

Skids

Ice protection

None

Pressurisation

Unpressurised

Systems & avionics

Flight controls

Mechanical

Autopilot

None

Avionics architecture

Analogue

Configuration & certification

Rotor configuration

Single main + tail

Certification

Experimental-LSA

Minimum crew

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Type variants

Variant	Launch / first flight	Production end	Notes
Apeiron MQ-52 Guardian	/		UAV variant.
VAT Hummingbird	1991 / 1991		Four-seat enclosed cabin, single-engine, single three-bladed kit-built helicopter, developed from Sikorsky S-52.

Airframer

Vertical Aviation Technologies, Inc.	News
Apeiron UAV LLC		MQ-52 variant

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