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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; Hawker Tornado (RAF) fighter; Lockheed Lightning (RAF) evaluation only ...
None delivered. Later taken over by UK - entered RAF service as "Consolidated Liberator" Consolidated 28-5 - entered RAF service as "Consolidated Catalina" Curtiss SBC-4 - French order of 50 aircraft for Aeronavale, last five delivered to UK and given service name "Curtiss Cleveland" Curtiss Model 75 - French order, 316 delivered to France ...
If the date of an aircraft's entry into service or first flight is not known, the aircraft will be listed by its name, the country of origin or major wartime users. Aircraft used for multiple roles are generally only listed under their primary role unless specialized versions were built for other roles in significant numbers.
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.
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 ...
The Vickers Wellington (nicknamed the Wimpy) is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber.It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey.Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson, a key feature of the aircraft is its geodetic airframe fuselage structure, which was principally designed by Barnes Wallis.