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The Bristol Bombay was built to Air Ministry Specification C.26/31 which called for a monoplane bomber-transport aircraft to replace the Vickers Valentia biplane in use in the Middle East and India. The aircraft was required to be capable of carrying 24 troops or an equivalent load of cargo as a transport, while carrying bombs and defensive ...
Bristol Bombay: Bombay Mk I: United Kingdom: Twin-engine medium bomber, troop transport aircraft: 1942–1944: RAF aircraft were operated by No. 1 Air Ambulance Unit RAAF. Nine aircraft de Havilland Dragonfly: DH.90: United Kingdom: Twin-engine five-seat light transport biplane: 1942 only: One aircraft De Havilland Australia DHA-G2 Glider: DHA ...
During the Second World War, with a few exceptions, such as the attacks from 17 to 21 June 1940 by a single aircraft of No. 216 Squadron on the airfields of El Adem and Tobruk, [7] the unit was principally a transport squadron, operating the Vickers Type 264 Valentia, Bristol Bombay, de Havilland DH86, Lockheed Hudson and Douglas Dakota.
Type Country Class Role Date Payload (t) Range (km) Notes Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma: France: Rotorcraft: 1968: 3 (Internal)/4.5(External) 580 [4]Airbus A310 MRTT
No. 1 Air Ambulance Unit was expanded and reequipped with 11 Bristol Bombay aircraft in February 1943. From July 1943 the unit supported the Allied invasion of Sicily and deployed to Italy in September 1943 to participate in the Italian Campaign.
Equipment mostly consisted of the Handley Page Harrow, supplemented with the Bristol Bombay and civil airliners impressed into military service, including the Handley Page H.P.42s from Imperial Airways. [2] Among the early tasks of the squadron was the support of RAF units in France, and the evacuation of them once the fall of France became ...
The Blenheims dived on the bomber and three achieved firing positions, shooting it down. On landing the crews handed over their aircraft and returned to Iraq in Bombay transports the next day. [39] After a long bombardment, the Italians overran Observation Hill and during the night the NRR retreated from Black, Knobbly and Castle hills.
Interwar military aircraft are military aircraft that were developed and used between World War I and World War II, also known as the Golden Age of Aviation.. For the purposes of this list this is defined as aircraft that entered service into any country's military after the armistice on 11 November 1918 and before the Invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.