List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II

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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Fighters and fighter-bombers
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.II
de Havilland Mosquito NF.II night fighter
Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc night fighter

Torpedo bombers, dive bombers and army cooperation
Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber

Level bombers
Handley Page Hampden
Formation of Avro Lancaster Mk.Is

Maritime patrol and coastal reconnaissance
Coastal Command Short Sunderland
Coastal Command Consolidated Liberator, the type that closed the Mid-Atlantic gap

Photo reconnaissance
RAF 544 Squadron de Havilland Mosquito PR.XVI

Trainers and target tugs
Avro Anson trainer
North American Harvard Mk.I
Miles Master trainer

Transport and communications
Avro York - LV633 Ascalon, Churchill's personal aircraft.
No. 115 Squadron RAF Handley Page Harrow transport
Model nameIntroductionRetiredBuiltOperator
Airspeed Envoy1934195252RAF
Airspeed Courier1933194716RAF[note 2]
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle19401945602RAF
Armstrong Whitworth Ensign1938194614BOAC
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley193719451814[note 3]RAF
Avro Lancastrian1945196091RAF, BOAC
Avro York19441964259RAF
Beechcraft Expeditor1937unk.9000RAF, FAA
Boeing Clipper193919463BOAC
Bristol Bombay1939194451RAF
Bristol Buckingham19431945119RAF
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado1937194610RAF
Consolidated B-24 Liberator19431945200RAF
de Havilland Albatross193819437Imperial Airways, BOAC, RAF[note 2]
de Havilland Express1934194162RAF, FAA[note 2]
de Havilland Dragon Rapide19341958731RAF, FAA[note 2]
de Havilland Dragonfly1936194567RAF[note 2]
de Havilland Flamingo1939195014RAF, FAA, BOAC
de Havilland Hornet Moth1934unk.164RAF[note 2]
de Havilland Leopard Moth1933unk.133RAF[note 2]
de Havilland Mosquito194119637781BOAC
de Havilland Moth Minor1937unk.140RAF, FAA
de Havilland Puss Moth1930unk.140RAF[note 2]
Douglas Dakota1942unk.1900+RAF, BOAC
Douglas C-54 Skymaster1942197522RAF
Fairchild Argus19321948831RAF
Foster Wikner Warferry1936unk.10RAF[note 2]
Grumman G-21 Goose1935unk.49RAF, FAA
Grumman Gosling1940unk.15RAF, FAA
Handley Page Halifax194019616176[note 3]RAF
Handley Page H.P.42193119404RAF[note 2]
Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow19371945100RAF
Hawker Hardy193419418RAF
Heston Phoenix193619526RAF[note 2]
Percival Petrel1938194727RAF[note 2]
Percival Proctor193919551147RAF
Percival Vega Gull1935194590RAF[note 2]
Lockheed Lodestar1940unk.625RAF, BOAC
Miles Mentor1938195045RAF
Miles Mercury194119466RAF
Miles Messenger1942unk.21RAF
Short C-Class Empire1939RAF, BOAC[note 2]
Short Hythe1942194629BOAC
Short S.26 G-Class Empire193919473RAF, BOAC[note 2]
Short Stirling194119462,371[note 3]RAF
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 Warwick19391945842[note 3]RAF
Westland Lysander193819461,786[note 3]RAF

Experimental and other
Gloster E.28/39 jet engine testbed

Prototypes & trials
Brewster Bermuda I
Martin-Baker M.B.5

Gliders
Airspeed Horsa troop glider

See also

References

Notes
  1. used by No. 601 Squadron RAF
  2. impressed
  3. all types produced

Citations
  1. Used for logistics support with RAF crews.
  2. "No. 5 Squadron (RAF): Second World War". History of War. Retrieved 23 April 2020.

Bibliography
  • Owen Thetford: Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918 6th edition. Putnam & Co., London 1976, ISBN 0-370-10056-5.
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