List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II explained

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.

Transport and communications

Model name Introduction Retired Built Operator
Airspeed Envoy1934195252RAF
Airspeed Courier1933194716RAF[2]
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle19401945602RAF
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign1938194614BOAC
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley193719451814RAF
Avro Lancastrian1945196091RAF, BOAC
Avro York19441964259RAF
Beechcraft Expeditor1937unk.9000RAF, FAA
Boeing Clipper193919463BOAC
Bristol Bombay1939194451RAF
Bristol Buckingham19431945119RAF
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado1937194610RAF
Consolidated Liberator19431945200RAF
de Havilland Albatross193819437Imperial Airways, BOAC, RAF
de Havilland Express1934194162RAF, FAA
de Havilland Dragon Rapide19341958731RAF, FAA
de Havilland Dragonfly1936194567RAF
de Havilland Flamingo1939195014RAF, FAA, BOAC
de Havilland Hornet Moth1934unk.164RAF
de Havilland Leopard Moth1933unk.133RAF
de Havilland Mosquito194119637781BOAC
de Havilland Moth Minor1937unk.140RAF, FAA
de Havilland Puss Moth1930unk.140RAF
Douglas Dakota1942unk.1900+RAF, BOAC
Douglas Skymaster1942197522RAF
Fairchild Argus19321948831RAF
Foster Wikner Warferry1936unk.10RAF
Grumman G-21 Goose1935unk.49RAF, FAA
Grumman Gosling1940unk.15RAF, FAA
Handley Page Halifax194019616176[3] RAF
Handley Page H.P.42193119404RAF
Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow19371945100RAF
Hawker Hardy193419418RAF
Heston Phoenix193619526RAF
Percival Petrel1938194727RAF
Percival Proctor193919551147RAF
Percival Vega Gull1935194590RAF
Lockheed Lodestar1940unk.625RAF, BOAC
Messerschmitt Aldon19391950s4RAF
Miles Mentor1938195045RAF
Miles Mercury194119466RAF
Miles Messenger1942unk.21RAF
Short C-Class Empire1939RAF, BOAC
Short Hythe1942194629BOAC
Short S.26 G-Class Empire193919473RAF, BOAC
Short Stirling194119462,371RAF
Short Scylla193419402BOAC
Sikorsky Hoverfly1945194652RAF
Stinson Reliant19371943500RAF, FAA
Stinson L-5 Sentinel19421945100RAF
Stinson L-1 Vigilant1941unk.30-71RAF, FAA
Taylorcraft Auster194219651630RAF
Vickers Type 264 Valentia1934194482RAF
Vickers Warwick19391945842RAF
Westland Lysander193819461,786RAF

See also

References

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Notes and References

  1. Used for logistics support with RAF crews.
  2. impressed
  3. all types produced