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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.
During the war, the British military contained 16 field corps and three that were intended to control anti-aircraft units. The latter were not comparable in role to field corps that were intended to control divisions in combat; anti-aircraft units were assigned to control anti-aircraft formations within a designated area, which could cover ...
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.
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.
2 (Training) Regiment Army Air Corps and School of Army Aviation: RAF Filton: SS 1916 2012 1960s Bristol Filton Airport: RAF Boscombe Down: SA 1939 - MoD Boscombe Down: RAF Colerne: SA 1940 - 21st Signal Regiment, Bristol University Air Squadron, 3 AEF: RAF Exeter: SA 1937 - Exeter International Airport, The Hunter Flying Club
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).
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 ...
The Glider Pilot Regiment was a British airborne forces unit of the Second World War, which was responsible for crewing the British Army's military gliders and saw action in the European theatre in support of Allied airborne operations. Established during the war in 1942, the regiment was disbanded in 1957.