Napier Gazelle

Gazelle
Napier Gazelle at the Royal Air Force Museum London
Type Turboshaft aero engine
Manufacturer D. Napier & Son
First run December 1955
Major applications Westland Wessex
Bristol/Westland Belvedere

The Napier Gazelle is a turboshaft helicopter engine that was manufactured by D. Napier & Son in the mid-1950s. In 1961 production was nominally transferred to a joint venture with Rolls-Royce called Napier Aero Engines Limited. But the venture closed two years later.