American Eurocopter produces helicopters at two production plants in the US.
Tatarstan's aviation industry produces Tu-214 passenger airplanes and helicopters.
Jovair (originally the Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation) was established by Drago Jovanovich at Philadelphia in 1946 to produce helicopters.
Since 1956 it has become one of the world's major helicopter manufacturers, producing helicopters under the Soviet licence, starting with the SM-1 (Mil Mi-1).
ZALA Aero is also the only company in Russia currently producing unmanned helicopters.
He also started Sikorsky Aircraft, a huge helicopter manufacturing company which produces famous helicopters such as the Sea King and Skycrane.
The company had agreed to pay $50 million for a 70 percent share of the plant, where a French company has produced helicopters under license.
MD Helicopters, Inc. is an American aerospace company that produces helicopters primarily for military/civil aviation use.
The company was founded in 1971 as Agrocopteros Ltda to produce gyroplanes and later helicopters and biplanes.
After 1946, other manufacturers continued to produce helicopters without paying royalties.