Transport and utility helicopter · Air · Hughes Helicopters · United States
Wikidata: military helicopter series of the MD 500 family by Hughes and MD Helicopters
- Operators among the 24
- 4
- Active, across the 24
- 323
- On order, across the 24
- 0
- In service since
- –
Catalogue entry
- Designation
- MD 500
- First flight or launch
- 1976
- In service
- –
- Retired
- –
- Generation
- –
- Unit cost (US dollars)
- not published in Wikidata
- Manufacturers
- Hughes Helicopters
- Also seen as
- Trainer
- Wikidata classes
- aircraft family
- Identifiers
- Q3142350 · factbase.org/sys/TMKX51Y064 · Wikipedia
Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.
Operators
Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.
250
53
13
7
| Nation | Active | Reserve | On order | Variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | 250 | |||
| Italy | 53 | MD 500 Defender NH-500M, MD 500 Defender NH 500D, MD 500 Defender NH-500MC | ||
| Mexico | 13 | MD 500 Defender 530F | ||
| Taiwan | 7 |
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