List of aircraft of the Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)
This is a list of aircraft of the Army Air Corps of the United Kingdom.
Aircraft
From its founding in 1942:
- Airspeed Horsa
- Auster AOP.6
- General Aircraft Hamilcar
- General Aircraft Hotspur
- Taylorcraft Auster
- Waco Hadrian
- Waco YKC and ZGC-7 - Two civil aircraft purchased by the British Army in Egypt and used by the Long Range Desert Group.
Since its separation from the Royal Air Force in 1957
Helicopters
- Agusta A109 - Retired
- AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat
- Bell 212
- Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin
- Eurocopter Squirrel - Retired
- Saunders-Roe Skeeter - Retired
- Sud Aviation Alouette II - Retired
- Westland Apache
- Westland Gazelle
- Westland Lynx - Retired
- Westland Scout - Retired
- Westland Sioux - Retired[1]
Fixed wing
- Auster AOP.9 - Retired
- Britten-Norman Islander/Defender - Transferred to the RAF 2019
- de Havilland Canada Beaver - Retired
- de Havilland Canada Chipmunk - Retired
- Grob Tutor light fixed wing trainer (at 674 Squadron, DEFTS and Army flying Grading)
- Slingsby Firefly T-67M260 (at 674 Squadron, DEFTS) - Retired, withdrawn December 2010.
- Slingsby Firefly 160 (at Army Flying Grading) - Retired, withdrawn December 2010.
Weapons and munitions
Missiles
- AS.11 - Obsolete air-to-surface anti-tank missile. Carried by the Westland Scout.
- AGM-114 Hellfire - Air-to-surface, laser-guided anti-tank missile.
- BGM-71 TOW - Air-to-surface, anti-tank guided missile. Carried by the Westland Lynx
Cannon
Machine guns
Notes and references
- licence built Bell design by both Westland and Agusta
External links
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