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General Aircraft Fleet Shadower (RAF) maritime patrol; Martin-Baker M.B.5. General Aircraft GAL.47 (RAF) Army cooperation; General Aircraft GAL.55 (RAF) training glider; Gloster F.9/37 (RAF) heavy fighter; Hafner Rotabuggy (RAF) developed as a way of air-dropping vehicles; Hawker Hotspur (RAF) turret fighter; Hawker Fury (monoplane) (RAF) fighter
The Board had been established before the war buying aircraft such as the Lockheed Super Electra. Facing an aeroplane shortage during the early stages of World War II, in January 1940, the British government established the British Direct Purchase Commission to purchase US
Carrier-borne version of the Gladiator fitted with an arrestor hook. One of the two FAA fighters of World War II in service at the beginning alongside the Blackburn Skua. [1] [2] Blackburn Skua The Skua was a fighter and a dive bomber; one of two fighter aircraft in the FAA at the onset of war, alongside the Gloster Sea Gladiator.
This list includes lists of naval aircraft used by the UK at specific time periods such as the Modern day and World War II. It will also include two lists one for the all the aircraft ever used by the Royal Naval Air Service the United Kingdoms original naval Air Service and all the aircraft ever used by the Fleet Air Arm the United Kingdom ...
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 . Only completely British built fighter aircraft capable of Mach 2.
Aircraft used for multiple roles are generally only listed under their primary role unless specialized versions were built for other roles in significant numbers. Aircraft used by neutral countries such as Spain , Switzerland and Sweden (or countries which did no significant fighting such as most of those in South America) are not included.
Spitfire Mark IIa believed to be the 14th aircraft built at Castle Bromwich. British shadow factories were the outcome of the Shadow Scheme, a plan devised in 1935 and developed by the British government in the buildup to World War II to try to meet the urgent need for more aircraft using technology transfer from the motor industry to implement additional manufacturing capacity.
World War II jet aircraft of the United Kingdom (1 C, 3 P) P. World War II British patrol aircraft (3 P) T. World War II British trainer aircraft (5 P)