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Douglas Aircraft Company: Amphibious flying boat: Transport and search and rescue: 1931 13 Fairchild J2K [6] Fairchild Aviation Corporation: Single-engine monoplane: Liaison, trainer, light cargo 1936 4 Grumman JF-2 Duck [7] Grumman: Amphibious single-engine biplane: Transport and search and rescue: October 1934 14 Grumman JRF Goose [8] Grumman ...
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943. After that Italy was divided in two states, the Axis Italian Social Republic in the north and the Allied Kingdom of Italy in the south. Both countries had their own Air Force fitted with formerly used Italian aircraft and other nations ...
Jason R. Wisniewski, Powering the Luftwaffe: German Aero Engines of World War II, FriesenPress, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2013. Bill Gunston, World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines: From the Pioneers to the Present Day, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Phoenix Mill UK, 2006.
Here is a list of aircraft used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Army Air Corps (AAC) and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) [1] during the Second World War.
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system.. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used during World War II.
Largest single-engine fighter airplane built and flown by any nation during World War II. [21] Features a massive water-cooled engine. [22] 1941 [21] [23] 1942 [21] [23] 15,636 [21] [23] XP-48: Fighter Douglas Aircraft Company: Cancelled in 1940 Never Never 0 XP-50: Heavy fighter/Interceptor Grumman Developed from the XF5F-1.
Trainer aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II were frequently modified from operational aircraft and differentiated by the suffix letter "K". Japanese training aircraft were red-orange where combat aircraft would have been camouflaged.