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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.
Most nations used obsolete combat types for advanced training, although large scale training programs such as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) required more aircraft than were available and aircraft were designed and built specifically to fulfill training roles. Intermediate trainers were used in several countries but ...
III Anti-Aircraft Corps: Apr 1939: Oct 1942: UK Battle of Britain, The Blitz, Baedeker Blitz: The corps controlled anti-aircraft defences for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and northern England that were not covered by II Anti-Aircraft Corps. These areas corresponding with No. 13 and No. 14 Group RAF. The corps was disbanded when the anti-aircraft ...
A Supermarine Spitfire the primary British fighter of World War II. This is a late WWII Spitfire mk LF IX the most produced variant of the Spitfire. An English Electric Lightning which served as the primary British fighter for much of the Cold War .
Former Dan-Air aircraft; painted in the markings of its first operator BOAC, which operated it from 1958. Donated by Dan-Air in 1974 and flown to Duxford. [4] de Havilland Dove: G-ALFU Used as a navaid calibration aircraft with the Civil Aviation Flying Unit (CAFU) from 1948 until 1972. Donated to the IWM in 1973 and moved to Duxford ...
This is a list of aircraft used by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) from 13 April 1912, when it was formed from the Air Battalion Royal Engineers, until 1 April 1918 when it was merged with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) to form the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The following is a list of British military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This also would largely apply to Commonwealth of Nations countries in World War II like Australia, India and South Africa as the majority of their equipment would have been British as they were at that time part of the British Empire.
Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service.This is a list of RAF aircraft, including all currently active and retired types listed in alphabetic order by their RAF type name.