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An hour
A helicopter
An umbrella
A unit
If you speak with a cockney enough accent you might soften starting H's enough that "an" is appropriate for more words. And if you're ESL, you might mistakenly pronounce words like "unit" as "oonit", which would call for an "an" as well.
Bottom line: it's the always the sound, not the letter. This can be known because it's obvious that the point of "an" is to break up an awkward double vowel sound. "An umbrella" flows better than "a umbrella". But "An helicopter" and "an yookranian" sound more awkward than the "a" alternatives.
Are you saying you would say "an helicopter"? That makes sense to me if you pronounce helicopter with a European accent, which would sound more like "an 'elicopter". Depending on their accent, English speakers will pronounce some Hs differently. As an American, I would pronounce some words with a hard H, like helicopter or ham or hard, while others are soft, like honor or hour. But other accents may pronounce those words slightly differently.
Ultimately, the use of a or an comes down to pronunciation.
That's all I'm getting at.