List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II

Here is a list of aircraft used by the British Royal Air Force, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, Army Air Corps and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)[1] during the Second World War.

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Fighters & Fighter-Bombers

Brewster Buffalo Mk I
Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Hawker Hurricane Mk I

Torpedo bombers, Dive Bombers and Army Cooperation

de Havilland Mosquito

Bombers

Avro Manchester Mk IA
Avro Lancaster

Maritime Patrol and Coastal Reconnaissance

Short Sunderland
Consolidated Catalina Mk II

Photo Reconnaissance

Trainers and Target Tugs

Avro Anson trainer
North American Harvard Mk.I

Transport and Communications aircraft

De Havilland Dominie
Model name Introduction Retired Build Operator
Airspeed Envoy1934195252Royal Air Force
Airspeed Courier1933194716Royal Air Force (impressed)
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle19401945602Royal Air Force
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign1938194614BOAC
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley193719451814Royal Air Force
Avro Lancastrian1945196091BOAC
Avro York19441964259Royal Air Force
Beechcraft Expeditor1937&9000Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
Boeing Clipper1939194612#BOAC
Bristol Bombay1939194451Royal Air Force
Bristol Buckingham19431945119Royal Air Force
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado19371946217#Royal Air Force
Consolidated B-24 Liberator1943194518482#Royal Air Force
de Havilland Albatross193819437Imperial Airways, BOAC, Royal Air Force (impressed)
de Havilland Express1934194162Royal Air Force, Royal Navy (impressed)
de Havilland Dragon Rapide19341958731Royal Air Force, Royal Navy (impressed)
de Havilland Dragonfly1936194567Royal Air Force (impressed)
de Havilland Flamingo1939195014Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, BOAC
de Havilland Hornet Moth1934&164Royal Air Force (impressed)
de Havilland Leopard Moth1933&133Royal Air Force (impressed)
de Havilland Mosquito194119637781BOAC
de Havilland Moth Minor1937&140Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
de Havilland Puss Moth1930&140Royal Air Force (impressed)
Douglas Dakota1942&10000#Royal Air Force
Douglas C-54 Skymaster194219751170#Royal Air Force
Fairchild Argus193219482232#Royal Air Force
Foster Wikner Warferry1936&10Royal Air Force (impressed)
Grumman G-21 Goose1935&345#Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
Grumman Gosling1940&317#Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
Handley Page Halifax194019616176Royal Air Force
Handley Page H.P.42193119404Royal Air Force
Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow19371945100Royal Air Force
Hawker Hardy193419418Royal Air Force
Heston Phoenix193619526Royal Air Force
Percival Petrel1938194727Royal Air Force
Percival Proctor193919551147Royal Air Force
Percival Vega Gull1935194590Royal Air Force
Lockheed Lodestar1940&625Royal Air Force, BOAC
Miles Mentor1938195045Royal Air Force
Miles Mercury194119466Royal Air Force
Short Hythe1942194629BOAC
Short S.26 G-Class Empire193919473Royal Air Force, BOAC
Short Stirling194119462371Royal Air Force
Short Scylla193419402BOAC
Sikorsky Hoverfly19451946131#Royal Air Force
Stinson Reliant193719431327#Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
Stinson L-5 Sentinel194219453896#Royal Air Force
Stinson L-1 Vigilant1941&324#Royal Air Force, Royal Navy
Taylorcraft Auster194219651630Royal Air Force
Vickers Type 264 Valentia1934194482Royal Air Force
Vickers Warwick19391945842Royal Air Force
Westland Lysander193819461786Royal Air Force

"#"-export from USA, actual number in British service is much lower
"&"-exact date unknown

Experimental & Misc

Gliders

References

  1. ↑ Used for logistics support with RAF crews.

See also

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