List of aircraft of World War II
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them. Aircraft developed but not used operationally in the war are in the prototypes section at the end. Prototypes for aircraft that entered service under a different design number are ignored in favour of the service version. The date the aircraft entered service – or was first flown if the service date is unknown or it did not enter service – follows the name, followed by the country of origin and major wartime users. Aircraft used for multiple roles are generally only listed under their primary role unless specialized versions were built for other roles in significant numbers. Aircraft used by neutral countries such as Spain, Switzerland and Sweden (or countries which did no significant fighting such as most of those in South America) are not included.
Fighter aircraft
[edit]Biplane fighters
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
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Armstrong Whitworth Scimitar | United Kingdom | 1936 | 6 | Norway (4 as trainers) |
Avia B-534 | Czechoslovakia | 1935 | 568 | Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Slovakia |
Avia BH-33 | Czechoslovakia[a] | 1927 | 180 | Poland[a] Yugoslavia |
Blériot-SPAD S.510 | France | 1936 | 61 | |
Boeing P-12 | United States | 1930 | 586 | Brazil, China, Philippines, Thailand |
Bristol Bulldog | United Kingdom[a] | 1929 | 443 | Denmark, Finland |
Curtiss F11C Goshawk | United States | 1932 | 30 | China |
Curtiss BF2C Goshawk | United States | 1933 | 166 | China, Thailand |
Fairey Firefly IIM | United Kingdom[a] | 1929 | 91 | Belgium |
Fiat CR.30 | Italy | 1932 | 176 | Austria, China, Germany, Hungary, Italy |
Fiat CR.32 | Italy | 1934 | 1,052 | Hungary, China |
Fiat CR.42 Falco | Italy | 1939 | 1,817 | Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Croatia |
Gloster Gamecock | United Kingdom[a] | 1926 | 108 | Finland |
Gloster Gauntlet | United Kingdom | 1935 | 246 | Denmark, Finland |
Gloster Gladiator | United Kingdom | 1937 | 747 | Belgium, Finland, Greece, Iraq, Lithuania, Norway |
Grumman FF | United States[a] | 1933 | 116 | Canada |
Grumman F2F | United States[a] | 1935 | 55 | |
Grumman F3F | United States[a] | 1936 | 147 | |
Hawker Demon | United Kingdom | 1933 | 305 | Australia |
Hawker Fury | United Kingdom[a] | 1931 | 275 | Yugoslavia, South Africa |
Hawker Nimrod | United Kingdom[a] | 1933 | 92 | Denmark |
Heinkel He 51 | Germany[a] | 1935 | 700 | Bulgaria |
IMAM Ro.44 | Italy | 1937 | 35 | |
Kawasaki Ki-10 | Japan | 1935 | 588 | |
Kochyerigin DI-6 | Soviet Union | 1934 | 222 | |
Koolhoven F.K.52 | Netherlands | 1939 | 6 | Finland (2 aircraft) |
Polikarpov I-5 | Soviet Union | 1931 | 803 | |
Polikarpov I-15 | Soviet Union | 1934 | 3,313 | China, Finland |
Polikarpov I-153 | Soviet Union | 1939 | 3,437 | China, Finland |
Fighters and fighter bombers
[edit]This table includes single-engined and single-seat fighters and ground attack aircraft
Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
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AEKKEA-RAAB R-29 | Greece | 1937 | 30 | Spain |
Ambrosini SAI.207 | Italy | 1942 | 14 | |
Ansaldo A.120 | Italy | 1925 | 77 | Lithuania |
Arsenal VG-33 | France | 1940 | 50 | |
Avia B-135 | Czechoslovakia | 1941 | 12 | Bulgaria |
Bell P-39 Airacobra | United States | 1941 | 9,588 | Australia, France, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Bell P-63 Kingcobra | United States | 1943 | 3,303 | Soviet Union |
Bloch MB.150 | France | 1940 | 683 | Greece, Romania |
Boeing P-26 Peashooter | United States | 1933 | 151 | China, Philippines |
Breda Ba.27 | Italy[a] | 1933 | 14 | China |
Brewster F2A Buffalo | United States | 1939 | 509 | Australia, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Caudron C.714 | France | 1940 | 90 | Finland, exile Poland forces |
CAC Boomerang | Australia | 1943 | 250 | |
Curtiss P-36 | United States | 1938 | 1,115 | Brazil, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Thailand, United Kingdom |
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk | United States | 1939 | 13,738 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, New Zealand, South Africa, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Curtiss CW-21 | United States | 1939 | 62 | China, Netherlands |
Dewoitine D.500/D.510 | France | 1935 | 381 | China, Lithuania |
Dewoitine D.520 | France | 1940 | 900 | Bulgaria, Italy |
Fiat G.50 Freccia | Italy | 1938 | 683 | Finland, Croatia |
Fiat G.55 Centauro | Italy | 1943 | 349 | |
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 | Germany | 1941 | 23,823 | Hungary |
Focke-Wulf Ta 152 | Germany | 1945 | 69 | |
Fokker D.XXI | Netherlands | 1936 | 148 | Denmark, Finland, Netherlands |
Gloster Gladiator | United Kingdom | 1934 | 3,317 | United Kingdom, China, Finland, Norway, Egypt |
Grumman F4F Wildcat | United States | 1940 | 7,885 | United Kingdom |
Grumman F6F Hellcat | United States | 1943 | 12,275 | United Kingdom |
Grumman F8F Bearcat | United States | 1945 | 1,265 | |
Hawker Hurricane | United Kingdom | 1937 | 14,487 | Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, India, New Zealand, Soviet Union |
Hawker Tempest | United Kingdom | 1944 | 1,702 | New Zealand |
Hawker Typhoon | United Kingdom | 1940 | 3,317 | Canada, New Zealand |
Heinkel He 112 | Germany | 1937 | 102 | Romania, Hungary |
IAR 80 | Romania | 1941 | 450 | |
Ilyushin Il-2 | Soviet Union | 1939 | 36,183 | |
Ikarus IK-2 | Yugoslavia | 1935 | 12 | Croatia |
Kawanishi N1K/N1K-J | Japan | 1943 | 1,532 | |
Kawasaki Ki-61 | Japan | 1942 | 3,078 | |
Kawasaki Ki-100 | Japan | 1945 | 396 | |
Koolhoven F.K.58 | Netherlands | 1940 | 20 | France |
Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-1 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 100 | |
Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 6,528 | Finland |
Lavochkin La-5 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 9,920 | |
Lavochkin La-7 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 5,753 | |
Loire 46 | France | 1936 | 61 | |
Macchi C.200 | Italy | 1939 | 1,513 | |
Macchi C.202 | Italy | 1941 | 1,150 | Croatia, Germany |
Macchi C.205 | Italy | 1943 | 262 | Croatia, Germany |
MÁVAG Héja | Hungary | 1941 | 204 | |
Messerschmitt Bf 109 | Germany | 1937 | 34,248 | Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 103 | |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 3,422 | |
Mitsubishi A5M | Japan | 1936 | 1,094 | |
Mitsubishi A6M Zero | Japan | 1940 | 10,939 | |
Mitsubishi J2M Raiden | Japan | 1942 | 621 | |
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 | France | 1939 | 1,176 | Croatia, Finland, Italy, Poland |
Nakajima A6M2-N 'Rufe' | Japan | 1942 | 327 | |
Nakajima Ki-27 'Nate' | Japan | 1937 | 3,368 | Manchukuo, Thailand |
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa | Japan | 1941 | 5,919 | Manchukuo, Thailand |
Nakajima Ki-44 'Tojo' | Japan | 1942 | 1,225 | |
Nakajima Ki-84 'Frank' | Japan | 1943 | 3,514 | |
North American P-51 Mustang | United States | 1942 | 15,588 | Australia, Canada, China, France, South Africa, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Polikarpov I-16 | Soviet Union | 1934 | 10,292 | China, Finland |
PZL P.7 | Poland | 1933 | 151 | |
PZL P.11 | Poland | 1934 | 325 | Romania |
PZL P.24 | Poland | 1936 | 184 | Bulgaria, Greece, Romania |
Reggiane Re.2000 | Italy | 1940 | 186 | Hungary |
Reggiane Re.2001 | Italy | 1941 | 237 | |
Reggiane Re.2005 | Italy | 1943 | 48 | Germany |
Republic P-43 Lancer | United States | 1941 | 272 | Australia, China |
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt | United States | 1942 | 15,636 | Brazil, France, Mexico, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Rogožarski IK-3 | Yugoslavia | 1940 | 13 | |
Seversky P-35 | United States | 1937 | 196 | Philippines |
Supermarine Seafire | United Kingdom | 1942 | 2,646 | |
Supermarine Spitfire | United Kingdom | 1938 | 20,381 | Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States |
VL Myrsky | Finland | 1943 | 51 | |
Vought F4U Corsair | United States | 1942 | 12,571 | United Kingdom, New Zealand |
Vultee P-66 Vanguard | United States | 1941 | 146 | China |
Yakovlev Yak-1 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 8,700 | France |
Yakovlev Yak-3 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 4,848 | France |
Yakovlev Yak-7 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 6,399 | France |
Yakovlev Yak-9 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 16,769 | France |
- ^ Production only, not used by manufacturing nation
Heavy fighters (multi-engined or multi-seat), night fighters, dive bombers and torpedo bombers
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
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Blackburn Roc | United Kingdom | 1939 | 136 | |
Blackburn Skua | United Kingdom | 1938 | 192 | |
Boulton Paul Defiant | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1,064 | Canada, Polish exile forces |
Bristol Beaufighter | United Kingdom | 1940 | 5,928 | Australia, Canada, South Africa, United States |
Bristol Blenheim | United Kingdom | 1937 | 4,422 | Canada |
de Havilland Mosquito | United Kingdom | 1941 | 7,781 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States |
Dornier Do 215 | Germany | 1939 | 105 | Hungary |
Dornier Do 217 | Germany | 1941 | 1,925 | Italy |
Dornier Do 335 | Germany | 1944 | 37 | |
Fairey Firefly | United Kingdom | 1941 | 1,072 | |
Fairey Fulmar | United Kingdom | 1940 | 600 | |
Focke-Wulf Ta 154 | Germany | 1944 | 1,925 | |
Fokker G.I | Netherlands | 1939 | 63 | |
Grumman F7F Tigercat | United States | 1944 | 364 | |
Heinkel He 219 | Germany | 1943 | 300 | |
IMAM Ro.57 | Italy | 1943 | 51 | |
Junkers Ju 88 | Germany | 1940 | 15,183 | |
Junkers Ju 388 | Germany | 1944 | 100 | |
Kawasaki Ki-45 | Japan | 1942 | 1,701 | |
Kawasaki Ki-102 | Japan | 1945 | 238 | |
Lockheed P-38 Lightning | United States | 1941 | 10,037 | China |
Messerschmitt Bf 110 | Germany | 1937 | 6,170 | Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Iraq, Romania |
Messerschmitt Me 210 | Germany | 1943 | 357 | Hungary |
Messerschmitt Me 410 | Germany | 1943 | 1,189 | Hungary |
Mitsubishi Ki-109 | Japan | 1945 | 22 | |
Nakajima J1N | Japan | 1942 | 479 | |
Northrop P-61 Black Widow | United States | 1944 | 706 | |
Petlyakov Pe-3 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 360 | Finland |
Potez 630 | France | 1938 | 1,395 | Greece, Romania |
Westland Welkin | United Kingdom | 1944 | 77 | |
Westland Whirlwind | United Kingdom | 1940 | 114 |
Jet- and rocket- propelled fighters
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bell P-59 Airacomet | United States | 1944 | 66 | |
Gloster Meteor | United Kingdom | 1944 | 3,947[a] | |
Heinkel He 162 | Germany | 1945 | 320 | |
Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star | United States | 1945 | 1,715[b] | |
Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet | Germany | 1944 | 370 | |
Messerschmitt Me 262 | Germany | 1944 | 1,430 | |
Ryan FR Fireball | United States[c] | 1945 | 71 |
Bomber and attack aircraft
[edit]Heavy and strategic bombers
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Avro Lancaster | United Kingdom | 1942 | 7,377 | Australia, Canada |
Avro Manchester | United Kingdom | 1940 | 202 | |
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | United States | 1938 | 12,731 | Canada, United Kingdom |
Boeing B-29 Superfortress | United States | 1944 | 3,970 | |
Consolidated B-24 Liberator | United States | 1940 | 18,188 | Australia, Canada, China, United Kingdom |
Consolidated B-32 Dominator | United States | 1942 | 118 | |
Dornier Do 217 | Germany | 1941 | 1,925 | Italy |
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor (maritime patrol) | Germany | 1940 | 276 | |
Handley Page Halifax | United Kingdom | 1940 | 6,176 | Australia, Canada, France |
Heinkel He 177 | Germany | 1943 | 1,169 | |
Petlyakov Pe-8 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 93 | |
Short Stirling | United Kingdom | 1940 | 2,371 | |
Tupolev TB-3 | Soviet Union | 1932 | 818 | |
Vickers Warwick | United Kingdom | 1942 | 846 | |
Yermolayev Yer-2 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 365 |
Medium bombers and maritime patrol
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Arado Ar 234 | Germany | 1944 | 214 | |
Arkhangelsky Ar-2 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 190 | |
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley | United Kingdom | 1937 | 1,814 | |
Avia F.39 | Czechoslovakia | 1932 | 18 | |
Amiot 143 | France | 1936 | 138 | |
Amiot 354 | France | 1940 | 86 | France, Germany |
Bloch MB.200 | France | 1935 | 332 | Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia |
Bloch MB.210 | France | 1937 | 300 | |
CANT Z.1007 | Italy | 1938 | 660 | |
Caproni Ca.135 | Italy | 1937 | 140 | Hungary |
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer | United States | 1943 | 739 | |
de Havilland Mosquito | United Kingdom | 1941 | 7,781 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa |
Dornier Do 11 | Germany | 1932 | 372 | Bulgaria |
Dornier Do 17 | Germany | 1937 | 2,139 | Bulgaria, Finland, Yugoslavia |
Dornier Do 215 | Germany | 1939 | 105 | |
Douglas A-20 Havoc | United States | 1941 | 7,478[a] | Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Netherlands, South Africa, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Douglas A-26 Invader | United States | 1944 | 2,503 | United Kingdom |
Douglas B-18 Bolo | United States | 1936 | 350 | Brazil, Canada |
Douglas B-23 Dragon | United States | 1939 | 38 | |
Farman F.220 | France | 1936 | 80 | |
Fiat BR.20 | Italy | 1938 | 500 | Hungary |
Fokker T.V | Netherlands | 1938 | 16 | |
Handley Page Hampden | United Kingdom | 1938 | 1,430 | Canada, Soviet Union |
Heinkel He 111 | Germany | 1936 | 5,656 | Germany, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia |
IAR 79 | Romania | 1941 | 72 | |
Ilyushin DB-3 | Soviet Union | 1936 | 1,528 | China, Finland |
Ilyushin Il-4 | Soviet Union | 1939 | 5,256 | Finland |
Junkers Ju 86 | Germany | 1936 | 900 | Hungary, South Africa |
Junkers Ju 88 | Germany | 1938 | 15,183 | Finland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, France, Soviet Union |
Junkers Ju 188 | Germany | 1943 | 1,234 | Hungary |
Keystone B-3A | United States | 1926 | 63 | Philippines |
Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 | France | 1939 | 561 | |
Lisunov Li-2 | Soviet Union | 1939 | 4,937 | |
Lockheed Ventura | United States | 1942 | 3028 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom |
Martin B-10 | United States | 1934 | 348 | China, Netherlands,[1] Philippines, Thailand[2] |
Martin B-26 Marauder | United States | 1941 | 5,288 | France, South Africa, United Kingdom |
Martin Baltimore | United States | 1941 | 1,575 | Australia France, Greece, Co-Belligerent Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom |
Martin Maryland | United States | 1939 | 450 | France, South Africa, United Kingdom |
Mitsubishi Ki-21 | Japan | 1938 | 2,064 | Japan, Thailand |
North American B-25 Mitchell | United States | 1941 | 9,816 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Soviet Union |
Nakajima Ki-49 | Japan | 1938 | 819 | |
Petlyakov Pe-2 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 11,070 | Finland |
Piaggio P.108 | Italy | 1942 | 50 | Germany[notes 1] |
PZL.37 Łoś | Poland | 1938 | 120 | Germany, Romania |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 | Italy | 1937 | 1,240 | Iraq, Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 | Italy | 1935 | 535 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.84 | Italy | 1941 | 329 | |
Tupolev TB-1 | Soviet Union | 1929 | 218 | |
Tupolev Tu-2 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 2,257 | |
Vickers Wellington | United Kingdom | 1938 | 11,462 | Australia, Canada, France, South Africa |
Yokosuka P1Y | Japan | 1945 | 1,102 |
Light bombers, ground attack, tactical reconnaissance and observation aircraft
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
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Aero A.32 | Czechoslovakia | 1928 | 116 | Finland |
Aero A.100 | Czechoslovakia | 1933 | 44 | |
Aero A.304 | Czechoslovakia | 1937 | 19 | Bulgaria, Germany |
ANBO IV | Lithuania | 1932 | 34 | Germany, Soviet Union |
ANF Les Mureaux 113 | France | 1933 | 285 | |
Armstrong Whitworth Atlas | United Kingdom[b] | 1927 | 478 | Canada |
Avro Anson | United Kingdom | 1936 | 11,020 | Canada, Egypt, Finland, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Netherlands, Turkey |
Blackburn Ripon | United Kingdom[b] | 1929 | 92 | Finland |
Blackburn Shark | United Kingdom | 1935 | 269 | Canada |
Blackburn Botha | United Kingdom | 1939 | 580 | |
Bloch MB.131 | France | 1938 | 143 | |
Bloch MB.170 | France | 1940 | 88 | |
Blohm & Voss BV 142 | Germany | 1940 | 4 | |
Breda Ba.64 | Italy | 1937 | 42 | |
Breda Ba.65 | Italy | 1937 | 218 | Iraq |
Breda Ba.88 | Italy | 1938 | 149 | |
Breguet 19 | France | 1924 | 2,700 | Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Yugoslavia |
Bréguet 270 | France | 1930 | 227 | China |
Breguet 693 | France | 1939 | 230 | |
Bristol Beaufort | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1,821 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa |
Bristol Blenheim | United Kingdom | 1937 | 4,422 | Canada, Finland, France, Greece, Yugoslavia |
Caproni Ca.309 | Italy | 1937 | 243 | Bulgaria |
Caproni Ca.310 | Italy | 1938 | 312 | Croatia, France, Hungary, Norway, Yugoslavia |
Caproni Ca.311 | Italy | 1938 | 335 | Croatia, Yugoslavia |
Caproni Ca.313 | Italy | 1938 | 271 | Croatia, France, Germany, Norway |
Caproni Ca.314 | Italy | 1938 | 425 | Hungary |
Curtiss A-12 Shrike | United States | 1933 | 46 | |
Curtiss A-18 Shrike | United States | 1936 | 13 | |
Curtiss Falcon | United States | 1928 | 488 | Philippines |
Curtiss O-52 Owl | United States | 1940 | 203 | Soviet Union |
DAR 3 | Bulgaria | 1937 | 24 | |
Douglas O-43 | United States | 1933 | 24 | |
Douglas O-46 | United States | 1936 | 90 | Philippines |
Fairey Battle | United Kingdom | 1937 | 2,201 | Australia, Belgium, Canada, Greece |
Fairey Fox | United Kingdom | 1932 | 200 | Belgium |
Fairey Gordon | United Kingdom | 1931 | 186 | New Zealand |
Fairey IIIF | United Kingdom | 1926 | 964 | Greece |
Focke-Wulf Fw 189 | Germany | 1941 | 864 | Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania |
Fokker C.V | Netherlands | 1924 | 955 | Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Norway |
Fokker C.VIII | Netherlands | 1928 | 10 | |
Fokker C.X | Netherlands | 1932 | 74 | Finland |
Hawker Hart | United Kingdom | 1928 | Finland | |
Hawker Audax/Nisr/Hartebees | United Kingdom | 1931 | India, Iraq, Persia, South Africa | |
Hawker Hector | United Kingdom | 1936 | 179 | |
Hawker Hind | United Kingdom | 1935 | 528 | New Zealand |
Hawker Horsley | United Kingdom | 1927 | 124 | Denmark, Greece |
Heinkel He 45 | Germany | 1931 | 512 | Bulgaria, Hungary |
Heinkel He 46 | Germany | 1931 | 500 | Hungary |
Heinkel He 50 | Germany | 1935 | 78 | |
Henschel Hs 123 | Germany | 1936 | 250 | |
Henschel Hs 126 | Germany | 1937 | Croatia, Estonia, Greece | |
Henschel Hs 129 | Germany | 1938 | 865 | Hungary, Romania |
IAR 37 | Romania | 1938 | 380 | |
Ilyushin Il-2 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 36,183 | |
Ilyushin Il-10 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 6,166 | |
IMAM Ro.37 | Italy | 1935 | 617 | Hungary |
Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | 1932 | 4,845 | |
Junkers Ju 87 | Germany | 1937 | 6,000 | Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria |
Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 | Bulgaria | 1941 | ||
Kawasaki Ki-32 | Japan | 1938 | 854 | Manchukuo |
Kawasaki Ki-48 | Japan | 1940 | 1,997 | |
Kharkov KhAI-5 | Soviet Union | 1936 | 500 | |
Kyushu Q1W | Japan | 1945 | 153 | |
Letov Š-16 | Czechoslovakia | 1928 | 89 | Latvia, Turkey |
Letov Š-28 | Czechoslovakia | 1934 | 412 | Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania |
Lockheed Hudson | United States | 1939 | 2,941 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Lublin R-XIII | Poland | 1932 | 273 | Romania |
RWD-14 Czapla | Poland | 1939 | 65 | Romania |
Mitsubishi G3M | Japan | 1937 | 1,048 | |
Mitsubishi G4M | Japan | 1941 | 2,435 | |
Mitsubishi Ki-30 | Japan | 1938 | 704 | Thailand |
Mitsubishi Ki-51 | Japan | 1939 | 2,385 | |
Mitsubishi Ki-67 | Japan | 1942 | 767 | |
North American A-36 Apache | United States | 1942 | 500 | |
North American O-47 | United States | 1934 | 239 | |
Northrop A-17 | United States | 1935 | 411 | South Africa, Canada, France, Iraq, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom |
Orlogsværftet O-Maskinen | Denmark | 1926 | 15 | |
Polikarpov Po-2 | Soviet Union | 1929 | 20,000 | Finland |
Polikarpov R-5 | Soviet Union | 1931 | 7,000 | |
Polikarpov R-Z | Soviet Union | 1935 | 1,031 | |
Potez 25 | France | 1925 | 4,000 | Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland |
Potez 540 | France | 1934 | 192 | |
PZL.23 Karaś | Poland | 1936 | 250 | Romania, Bulgaria |
PZL.43 | Poland | 1936 | 54 | Germany, Bulgaria |
Reggiane Re.2002 | Italy | 1941 | 225 | Germany |
Rogožarski R-100 | Yugoslavia | 1938 | 26 | Croatia |
Renard R.31 | Belgium | 1935 | 43 | |
Boripatra | Siam | 1927 | 12 | |
Saab 17 | Sweden | 1940 | 326 | Denmark |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.85 | Italy | 1939 | 34 | |
Sukhoi Su-2 | Soviet Union | 1937 | 910 | |
Tachikawa Ki-36 | Japan | 1938 | 1,334 | Japan, Thailand |
Thomas-Morse O-19 | United States | 1929 | 176 | Philippines |
Tupolev SB | Soviet Union | 1934 | 6,656 | Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland |
Vickers Vildebeest | United Kingdom | 1933 | 406 | New Zealand |
Vickers Wellesley | United Kingdom | 1937 | 177 | |
VL Kotka | Finland | 1931 | 5 | |
Vought O2U Corsair | United States | 1926 | 580 | Brazil, China, Thailand |
Vultee Vengeance | United States | 1942 | 1,931 | Australia, Brazil, France, India, United Kingdom |
Vultee V-11 | United States | 1939 | 175 | Brazil, China, Soviet Union |
Weiss WM-16 | Hungary | 1936 | ||
Weiss WM-21 Sólyom | Hungary | 1938 | 128 | |
Westland Lysander | United Kingdom | 1936 | 1,786 | Canada, France, Finland, India, United States |
Westland Wapiti | United Kingdom | 1928 | 586 | Australia, Canada, India |
Westland Wallace | United Kingdom | 1933 | 173 | |
Yakovlev Yak-4 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 90 |
Carrier-based naval bombers
[edit]Type | Origin | Role | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aichi B7A | Japan | torpedo/dive bomber | 1945 | 114 | |
Aichi D1A[notes 2] | Japan | dive bomber | 1934 | 590 | |
Aichi D3A | Japan | dive bomber | 1937 | 1,445 | |
Blackburn Skua | United Kingdom | fighter/dive bomber | 1938 | 192 | |
Brewster SB2A Buccaneer | United States | dive bomber | 1941 | 771 | United Kingdom |
Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf | United States | torpedo bomber | 1944 | 181 | |
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver | United States | dive bomber | 1943 | 7,140 | Australia, United Kingdom |
Curtiss SBC Helldiver | United States | dive bomber | 1938 | 257 | France, United Kingdom |
Douglas DT[notes 3] | United States | torpedo bomber | 1921 | 90 | Norway |
Douglas SBD Dauntless | United States | dive bomber | 1940 | 5,936 | New Zealand |
Douglas TBD Devastator | United States | torpedo bomber | 1935 | 130 | |
Fairey Albacore | United Kingdom | torpedo/dive bomber | 1940 | 800 | Canada |
Fairey Barracuda | United Kingdom | torpedo/dive bomber | 1942 | 2,602 | |
Fairey Swordfish | United Kingdom | torpedo bomber | 1936 | 2,391 | Canada |
Fieseler Fi 167 | Germany | torpedo/reconnaissance bomber | 1940 | 14 | Croatia, Romania |
Grumman TBF Avenger | United States | torpedo bomber | 1942 | 9,839 | New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Loire-Nieuport LN.401 | France | dive bomber | 1939 | 68 | |
Mitsubishi B5M | Japan | torpedo bomber | 1937 | 125 | |
Nakajima B5N | Japan | torpedo bomber | 1938 | 1,149 | |
Nakajima B6N | Japan | torpedo bomber | 1942 | 1,268 | |
Naval Aircraft Factory SBN | United States | dive bomber | 1941 | 30 | |
Northrop BT | United States | dive bomber | 1935 | 55 | |
SB2U Vindicator/Chesapeake | United States | dive bomber | 1937 | 260 | France, United Kingdom |
Yokosuka B4Y | Japan | torpedo bomber | 1936 | 205 | |
Yokosuka D4Y | Japan | dive bomber/night fighter | 1942 | 2,038 |
Strategic and photo-reconnaissance aircraft
[edit]Strategic and photo-reconnaissance aircraft were frequently specially modified variants of high performance aircraft, usually fighters or bombers.
Seaplanes
[edit]Flying boats
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
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Aichi E10A | Japan | 1934 | 15 | |
Aichi E11A | Japan | 1937 | 17 | |
Aichi H9A | Japan | 1942 | 31 | |
Beriev MBR-2 | Soviet Union | 1935 | 1,365 | |
Blohm & Voss BV 138 | Germany | 1940 | 297 | |
Blohm & Voss BV 222 | Germany | 1941 | 13 | |
Boeing 314/C-98 Clipper | United States | 1939 | 12 | |
Bréguet 521 Bizerte | France | 1935 | 37 | Germany |
CAMS 37 | France | 1926 | 332 | |
CAMS 55 | France | 1930 | 112 | |
Canadian Vickers Vancouver | Canada | 1930 | 6 | |
Canadian Vickers Vedette | Canada | 1925 | 60 | |
CANT Z.501 | Italy | 1935 | 454 | Romania |
Chyetverikov MDR-6 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 27 | |
Consolidated PBY/PBN/PBV/OA-10 Catalina/Canso[notes 5] | United States | 1935 | 3,308 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Norway, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Consolidated P2Y | United States | 1929 | 78 | Argentina |
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado | United States | 1937 | 217 | United Kingdom |
Dornier Do 18 | Germany | 1938 | 170 | |
Dornier Do 24 | Germany | 1937 | 279 | Australia, Netherlands |
Dornier Do 26 | Germany | 1938 | 6 | |
Dornier Do J Wal | Germany | 1922 | 250 | Denmark |
Douglas Dolphin | United States | 1931 | 558 | Australia |
Grumman JRF Goose | United States | 1937 | 345 | Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom |
Grumman J4F Widgeon/Gosling | United States | 1940 | 317 | Brazil, United Kingdom |
Grumman J2F Duck | United States | 1936 | 584 | |
Hall PH | United States | 1931 | 24 | |
Ikarus IO | Yugoslavia | 1926 | 38 | |
Ikarus ŠM | Yugoslavia | 1924 | 42 | |
Kawanishi E11K | Japan | 1937 | 2 | |
Kawanishi H6K | Japan | 1938 | 215 | |
Kawanishi H8K | Japan | 1942 | 167 | |
Latécoère 302 | France | 1932 | 7 | |
Latécoère 521-523 | France | 1935 | 5 | |
Latécoère 611[notes 6] | France | 1940 | 1 | |
Latécoère 631 | France | 1942 | 10 | Germany |
Lioré et Olivier LeO H-47 | France | 1937 | 6 | |
Lioré et Olivier LeO H-242 | France | 1929 | 15 | Italy |
Lioré et Olivier LeO H-246 | France | 1939 | 6 | Germany |
Loire 70 | France | 1937 | 8 | |
Loire 130 | France | 1937 | 125 | |
Loire 501 | France | 1933 | 7 | |
Macchi M.C.100 | Italy | 1940 | 3 | |
Martin M-130 | United States | 1934 | 3 | |
Martin JRM Mars | United States | 1943 | 7 | |
Martin PBM Mariner | United States | 1940 | 1,366 | Australia, Netherlands, United Kingdom |
Potez 141[notes 6] | France | 1938 | 1 | Germany |
Potez-CAMS 161 | France | 1938 | 1 | Germany |
Potez 452 | France | 1936 | 16 | |
RAS-1 Getta | Romania | 1925 | 4 | |
Saro Lerwick | United Kingdom | 1940 | 21 | |
Saro London | United Kingdom | 1936 | 31 | |
Savoia-Marchetti S.55 | Italy | 1926 | 243 | Romania |
Savoia-Marchetti S.62bis | Italy | 1926 | Romania | |
Savoia-Marchetti S.66 | Italy | 1931 | 24 | |
Shavrov Sh-2 | Soviet Union | 1934 | 700 | Finland |
Short Empire | United Kingdom | 1936 | 42 | Australia, New Zealand |
Short S.26 | United Kingdom | 1940 | 3 | |
Short S.25 Hythe/Sandringham | United Kingdom | 1942 | 37 | New Zealand |
Short Singapore | United Kingdom | 1935 | New Zealand | |
Short Sunderland | United Kingdom | 1938 | 749 | Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, Norway |
Sikorsky S-40 | United States | 1931 | 3 | |
Sikorsky S-42 | United States | 1934 | 10 | |
Sikorsky JRS-1/OA-8 | United States | 1935 | 53 | |
Sikorsky VS-44/JR2S-1 | United States | 1937 | 3 | |
Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite[notes 7] | France | 1942 | 2 | Germany |
Supermarine Sea Otter | United Kingdom | 1942 | 292 | |
Supermarine Stranraer[notes 5] | United Kingdom | 1937 | 57 | Canada |
Supermarine Walrus | United Kingdom | 1935 | 740 | Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand |
Tupolev MTB-1 | Soviet Union | 1929 | 15 | |
Yokosuka H5Y | Japan | 1939 | 20 |
Floatplanes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aichi E13A | Japan | 1941 | 1,418 | Thailand |
Aichi E16A | Japan | 1944 | 256 | |
Aichi M6A[notes 8] | Japan | 1945 | 28 | |
Arado Ar 95 | Germany | 1936 | 42 | |
Arado Ar 196 | Germany | 1938 | 541 | Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, USSR |
Arado Ar 199 trainer | Germany | 1939 | 31 | |
Arado Ar 231[notes 8] | Germany | 1941 | 6 | |
Beriev Be-2 | Soviet Union | 1938 | 12 | |
Beriev Be-4 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 47 | |
Besson MB.411[notes 8] | France | 1935 | 2 | |
CANT Z.506 | Italy | 1936 | 354 | |
CANT Z.515 | Italy | 1940 | 11 | |
Curtiss SC Seahawk | United States | 1944 | 577 | |
Curtiss SO3C Seamew | United States | 1942 | 795 | United Kingdom |
Curtiss SOC Seagull | United States | 1935 | 322 | |
Dornier Do 22 | Germany | 1938 | 30 | Finland, Greece, Yugoslavia |
Fairey Seafox | United Kingdom | 1937 | 66 | |
Fairey Swordfish | United Kingdom | 1936 | 2,391 | |
Farman NC.470 | France | 1938 | 35 | |
Fiat RS.14 | Italy | 1941 | 186 | |
Fokker C.XI-W | Netherlands | 1935 | 14 | |
Fokker C.XIV-W | Netherlands | 1937 | 24 | |
Fokker T.IV | Netherlands | 1927 | 33 | |
Fokker T.VIII | Netherlands | 1938 | 36 | Germany, United Kingdom |
Gourdou-Leseurre GL-810-813 HY | France | 1930 | 86 | |
Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY | France | 1930 | 22 | |
Heinkel HE 8[notes 9] | Germany | 1927 | 22 | Denmark |
Heinkel He 42 floatplane trainer | Germany | 1929 | Bulgaria | |
Heinkel He 59 | Germany | 1935 | 142 | Finland |
Heinkel He 60 | Germany | 1933 | 361 | Bulgaria |
Heinkel He 114 | Germany | 1939 | Romania | |
Heinkel He 115 | Germany | 1939 | 138 | Finland, Norway, UK |
IMAM Ro.43 | Italy | 1935 | 193 | |
IMAM Ro.44 | Italy | 1936 | 35 | |
Kawanishi E7K | Japan | 1935 | 533 | |
Kawanishi N1K floatplane trainer | Japan | 1944 | 1,532 | |
Latécoère 290 | France | 1934 | 35 | |
Latécoère 298 | France | 1938 | 121 | Germany |
Levasseur PL.15 | France | 1933 | 17 | |
Lioré et Olivier LeO H-43 | France | 1940 | 21 | |
Lublin R.VIII floatplane trainer | Poland | 1928 | 6 | |
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.8 floatplane trainer | Norway | 1924 | 8 | |
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.10 | Norway | 1929 | 4 | |
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.11 floatplane trainer | Norway | 1932 | 29 | Finland |
Mitsubishi F1M | Japan | 1941 | 944 | |
Nakajima A6M2-N | Japan | 1942 | 327 | |
Nakajima E8N | Japan | 1935 | 755 | Thailand |
Northrop Delta | United States | 1936 | 32 | Canada |
Northrop N-3PB | United States | 1940 | 24 | Norway |
Rogožarski SIM-XII-H | Yugoslavia | 1938 | 9 | |
Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H | Yugoslavia | 1939 | 19 | |
VL Sääski floatplane trainer | Finland | 1928 | 38 | |
Vought OS2U Kingfisher | United States | 1938 | 1,519 | Australia, United Kingdom |
Watanabe E9W[notes 8] | Japan | 1938 | 35 | |
Watanabe K6W/WS-103 | Japan | 1938 | Thailand | |
Yokosuka E14Y[notes 8] | Japan | 1941 | 126 | |
Yokosuka K4Y | Japan | 1933 | 211 |
Transport aircraft
[edit]Transport planes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aeronca L-3 | United States | 1941 | Brazil | |
Airspeed Envoy | United Kingdom | 1934 | 52 | Finland, South Africa |
Arado Ar 232 | Germany | 1943 | 20 | |
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle | United Kingdom | 1940 | 602 | Soviet Union |
AVIA FL.3 | Italy | 1939 | 336 | Croatia, Germany |
Avro 652 | United Kingdom | 1935 | 2 | |
Avro Lancastrian | United Kingdom | 1945 | 91 | |
Avro York | United Kingdom | 1944 | 262 | |
Barkley-Grow T8P-1 | United States | 1937 | 11 | Canada |
Beechcraft 17 Staggerwing/UC-43 Traveler | United States | 1933 | 785 | Australia, Brazil, Finland, New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Beechcraft Model 18/C-45/JRB/Expeditor[notes 10] | United States | 1937 | 9,000 | Brazil, Canada, France, Philippines, United Kingdom |
Bellanca Aircruiser | United States | 1930 | 23 | Canada, Mexico, Philippines |
Beneš-Mráz Be-555 Super Bibi | Czechoslovakia | 1936 | 18 | |
Bloch MB.81 ambulance aircraft | France | 1935 | 21 | |
Bloch MB.120 mailplane | France | 1935 | 11 | |
Boeing 247/UC-73 | United States | 1933 | 75 | Canada, United Kingdom |
Boeing C-75 Stratoliner | United States | 1940 | 10 | |
Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress | United States | 1943 | 4 | |
Breda Ba.44 | Italy | 1934 | 6 | |
Bristol Bombay bomber/transport | United Kingdom | 1939 | 51 | |
Bristol Buckingham | United Kingdom | 1943 | 119 | |
Budd RB Conestoga | United States | 1944 | 20 | |
CAP CAP-4 Paulista | Brazil | 1935 | 1,149 | |
Caproni Ca.111 | Italy | 1932 | 154 | |
Caproni Ca.133 | Italy | 1935 | 506 | |
Caproni Ca.148 | Italy | 1938 | Italy, Germany | |
Caproni Ca.164 | Italy | 1938 | 281 | Italy, France |
Caudron C.272 | France | 1931 | 700 | |
Caudron C.280/C.400/C.410 | France | 1932 | 291 | |
Caudron C.440 Goéland | France | 1934 | 1,702 | France, Belgium, Germany |
Caudron C.480 Frégate | France | 1935 | 27 | |
Caudron C.600 Aiglon | France | 1935 | 203 | |
Caudron C.635 Simoun | France | 1935 | 680 | |
Cessna 165 | United States | 1935 | 183 | Australia, Finland |
Consolidated C-87/C-109 Liberator Express | United States | 1942 | 287 | United Kingdom |
Curtiss-Wright C-46/R5C Commando | United States | 1941 | 3,181 | |
de Havilland DH.50 | United Kingdom | 1923 | 38 | Australia |
de Havilland DH.60 Moth | United Kingdom | 1929 | Belgium, China, Denmark, Egypt, Iraq, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa | |
de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth | United Kingdom | 1930 | 284 | Canada, Iraq, New Zealand |
de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth | United Kingdom | 1932 | 155 | Australia, New Zealand |
de Havilland DH.84 Dragon | United Kingdom | 1934 | 202 | Denmark, Iraq, New Zealand, Lithuania |
de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth | United Kingdom | 1933 | 133 | Australia, Belgium |
de Havilland D.H.86 Express | United Kingdom | 1934 | 62 | Australia, New Zealand |
de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide/Dominie | United Kingdom | 1934 | 727 | Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Iraq, New Zealand, United States |
de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly | United Kingdom | 1936 | 67 | Australia, Denmark, Iraq |
de Havilland DH.91 Albatross | United Kingdom | 1938 | 7 | |
de Havilland DH.94 Moth Minor | United Kingdom | 1937 | 140 | Australia, New Zealand |
de Havilland DH.95 Flamingo | United Kingdom | 1939 | 14 | |
Desoutter Mk.II | United Kingdom | 1941 | 47 | Finland |
Douglas C-47/R4D Skytrain/Dakota | United States | 1941 | 10,174 | Brazil, Canada, France, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Douglas C-54/R5D Skymaster | United States | 1942 | 1,170 | United Kingdom |
Douglas DC-2/C-32 | United States | 1934 | 198 | Australia, Finland, Japan, Netherlands, Soviet Union, United Kingdom |
Douglas DC-3 | United States | 1935 | 607 | Canada, Japan, Soviet Union |
Douglas DC-5/C-110/R3D | United States | 1940 | 12 | Australia, Japan |
Fairchild 24 Argus/UC-61 Forwarder | United States | 1932 | 2,232 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, Thailand, United Kingdom |
Fairchild 71 | United States | 1926 | Canada | |
Fairchild 82 | Canada | 1935 | 24 | Argentina |
Fairchild C-82 Packet | United States | 1944 | 223 | |
Fairchild FC-2/51 | United States | 1926 | 180 | Canada |
Fairchild Super 71 | Canada | 1934 | 4 | |
Farman F.190 | France | 1928 | 158 | |
Farman F.402 | France | 1934 | ||
Farman F.224 | France | 1932 | 80 | |
Fiat G.12 | Italy | 1941 | 104 | Germany, Hungary |
Fiat G.18 | Italy | 1936 | 9 | |
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch | Germany | 1936 | 2,900 | Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Yugoslavia |
Fleet Freighter | Canada | 1938 | 5 | |
Fokker F.VII | Netherlands | 1925 | Finland, Poland | |
Fokker Super Universal/Nakajima Ki-6/C2N | United States | 1931 | Japan, Manchukuo | |
Ford Trimotor | United States | 1926 | 199 | Australia |
Foster Wikner Wicko | United Kingdom | 1936 | 10 | New Zealand |
Gotha Go 244 | Germany | 1942 | 174 | |
Handley Page Halifax/Halton[notes 11] | United Kingdom | 1940 | 6,176 | |
Handley Page Harrow bomber/transport[notes 12] | United Kingdom | 1937 | 100 | Canada |
Hanriot H.182 | France | 1934 | 392 | |
Harlow C-80/PJC-2 | United States | 1937 | 11 | United Kingdom |
Heinkel He 116 mailplane | Germany | 1938 | 14 | |
Howard UC-70/GH Nightingale | United States | 1939 | 520 | |
IMAM Ro.63 | Italy | 1940 | 6 | |
Interstate Cadet/L-6 Grasshopper | United States | 1942 | 574 | Norway |
Junkers F 13[notes 13] | Germany | 1920 | 322 | Finland |
Junkers G 24 | Germany | 1925 | 115 | Greece |
Junkers G 31 | Germany | 1926 | 13 | Australia |
Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | 1932 | 4,845 | Greece, Bulgaria, Norway |
Junkers Ju 90 | Germany | 1938 | 18 | |
Junkers Ju 252 | Germany | 1942 | 15 | |
Junkers Ju 290 | Germany | 1942 | 65 | |
Junkers Ju 352 | Germany | 1944 | 50 | |
Junkers W 34 & K 43 | Germany | 1926 | Australia, Finland, Norway | |
Kawanishi H6K2-L/H6K-3/H6K4-L | Japan | 1936 | 215 | |
Kawanishi H8K2-L | Japan | 1941 | 167 | |
Kawasaki Ki-56 | Japan | 1940 | 121 | |
Kokusai Ki-59 | Japan | 1941 | 59 | |
Kokusai Ki-76 | Japan | 1942 | 937 | |
Laville PS-89 | United States | 1935 | 7 | |
Lisunov Li-2 | Soviet Union | 1939 | 6,152 | |
Lockheed UC-101 Vega | United States | 1928 | 132 | Australia |
Lockheed 9/UC-85 Orion | United States | 1931 | 35 | |
Lockheed 10/C-36 Electra | United States | 1935 | 149 | Canada, United Kingdom |
Lockheed 12/UC-40 Electra Junior | United States | 1936 | 130 | Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom |
Lockheed 14 Super Electra | United States | 1937 | 354 | Canada, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom |
Lockheed 18/C-60 Lodestar | United States | 1937 | 625 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom |
Lockheed C-69 Constellation | United States | 1943 | 22 | |
Lublin R-XVI | Poland | 1932 | 7 | |
Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun | Germany | 1934 | 885 | Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Romania, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia |
Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant | Germany | 1943 | 198 | |
Miles Falcon | United Kingdom | 1934 | 36 | Australia |
Miles Mentor | United Kingdom | 1938 | 45 | |
Miles Merlin | United Kingdom | 1935 | 4 | Australia |
Miles Messenger | United States | 1942 | 93 | |
Miles Monarch | United States | 1938 | 11 | |
Miles Whitney Straight | United Kingdom | 1936 | 50 | New Zealand |
Mitsubishi G6M1-L2 | Japan | 1941 | 30 | |
Mitsubishi K3M | Japan | 1931 | 625 | |
Mitsubishi Ki-20 | Germany, Japan | 1932 | 6 | |
Mitsubishi Ki-57/L4M | Japan | 1942 | 406 | |
Mitsubishi L3Y | Japan | 1935 | ||
Moskalyev SAM-5 | Soviet Union | 1935 | 40 | |
Nakajima Ki-4[notes 14] | Japan | 1934 | 516 | Manchukuo |
Nakajima Ki-34/L1N1 | Japan | 1936 | 351 | |
Noorduyn Norseman | Canada | 1935 | 904 | Australia, Brazil, United States |
Northrop Delta[notes 5] | United States | 1933 | 32 | Canada, Australia |
Percival Gull | United Kingdom | 1932 | 48 | New Zealand |
Percival Petrel | United Kingdom | 1937 | 27 | |
Percival Proctor | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1,143 | |
Percival Vega Gull | United Kingdom | 1935 | 90 | Australia, Belgium, New Zealand |
Piper J-3, L-4, O-59 and NE-1 | United States | 1938 | 20,219 | Brazil |
Piper J-4 | United States | 1938 | 1,251 | United Kingdom |
Polikarpov U-2 | Soviet Union | 1927 | 20,000 | |
Porterfield 35 | United States | 1935 | 240 | New Zealand |
Potez 29 | France | 1927 | 146 | |
Potez 56 | France | 1934 | 72 | |
Potez 58 | France | 1934 | 202 | |
Potez 62 | France | 1935 | ||
Potez 650 | France | 1937 | 15 | |
Putilov Stal-3 | Soviet Union | 1933 | 79 | |
PWS-24bis | Poland | 1933 | 11 | Romania |
Rearwin Sportster | United States | 1935 | 273 | New Zealand, Thailand |
RWD 10 | Poland | 1935 | 23 | |
RWD 13 | Poland | 1935 | 100 | Romania |
RWD 15 | Poland | 1937 | 6 | Romania |
SAI KZ II | Denmark | 1937 | 45 | |
SAIMAN 202 | Italy | 1939 | 390 | Croatia |
Savoia-Marchetti S.73 | Italy | 1934 | 53 | Belgium, United Kingdom |
Savoia-Marchetti S.74 | Italy | 1934 | 3 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 | Italy | 1938 | 90 | Hungary, Germany |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 | Italy | 1940 | 727 | Germany |
Savoia-Marchetti S.83 | Italy | 1938 | 23 | Belgium, Romania |
SFCA Taupin | France | 1936 | 53 | |
Shcherbakov Shche-2 | Soviet Union | 1943 | 550 | |
Short Stirling[notes 11][notes 15] | United Kingdom | 1943 | ||
Showa/Nakajima L2D | Japan | 1939 | 487 | |
Siebel Si 204 | Germany | 1942 | 1,216 | |
Spartan UC-71 Executive | United States | 1936 | 36 | Canada, China, United Kingdom |
Stinson L-1/O-49 Vigilant | United States | 1941 | 324 | United Kingdom |
Stinson L-5 Sentinel | United States | 1942 | 3,590 | United Kingdom, United States |
Stinson Reliant | United States | 1933 | 1,327 | Australia, Norway, Philippines, United Kingdom |
Stinson Voyager | United States | 1939 | 1,052 | Canada, France |
Tachikawa Ki-54 | Japan | 1940 | 1,368 | |
Taylorcraft Auster | United Kingdom | 1942 | 1,630 | Australia |
Taylorcraft D | United States | 1941 | 3,170 | |
Taylorcraft L-2 | United States | 1941 | 1,984 | |
Tugan Gannet | Australia | 1935 | 8 | |
Tupolev ANT-9 | Soviet Union | 1931 | 100 | |
Tupolev PS-35 | Soviet Union | 1937 | 11 | |
Vickers Type 264 Valentia bomber/transport | United Kingdom | 1934 | ||
Vickers Warwick | United Kingdom | 1939 | 114 | South Africa |
Waco UC-72 (and other Waco variants) | United States | 1930s | 42 | Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom |
Yakovlev Yak-6 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 381 | |
Yokosuka L3Y | Japan | 1935 |
Transport gliders
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Airspeed Horsa | United Kingdom | 1942 | 3,655 | United States |
Antonov A-7 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 400 | |
de Havilland Australia DHA-G | Australia | 1942 | 8 | |
DFS 230 | Germany | 1938 | 1,600 | |
General Aircraft Hamilcar | United Kingdom | 1942 | 344 | |
Gotha Go 242 | Germany | 1941 | 1,528 | |
Gribovski G-11 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 500 | |
Kokusai Ku-8 | Japan | 1941 | 700 | |
Kolesnikov-Tsibin KC-20 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 68 | |
Maeda Ku-1 | Japan | 1941 | 100 | |
Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant | Germany | 1941 | 200 | |
Slingsby Hengist | United Kingdom | 1942 | 18 | |
Waco CG-13 | United States | 1945 | 135 | |
Waco CG-15 | United States | 1943 | 473 | |
Waco CG-3 | United States | 1942 | 100 | |
Waco CG-4/Hadrian | United States | 1942 | 13,903 | United Kingdom |
Trainers
[edit]Primary trainers are used for basic flight training while advanced trainers were used for familiarization with the more complex systems and higher speeds of combat aircraft, and for air combat training. Multi-engined trainers were used to prepare pilots for multi-engine bombers and transports, and to train navigators, bombardiers, gunners and flight engineers. 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 additional hours at the primary stage made them redundant.
Glider trainers
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter primary training glider | Germany | 1938 | 10,000 | Japan |
General Aircraft Hotspur assault glider trainer | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1,015 | |
Laister-Kauffman TG-4 | United States | 1941 | 153 | |
Slingsby Kirby Cadet | United Kingdom | 1935 | 376 | |
Schweizer TG-3 | United States | 1942 | 114 | |
Schweizer TG-2/LNS-1 | United States | 1938 | 57 | |
Schneider Grunau Baby | Germany | 1931 | 6,000 | Denmark |
Primary trainers
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
ANBO V / 51 | Lithuania | 1931, 1936 | 15 | Soviet Union (several ANBO 51s) |
Avro 504 | United Kingdom | 1913 | 11,303 | Greece, Thailand |
Avro 626 | United Kingdom | 1930 | 198 | Belgium, Canada, Greece, Lithuania, New Zealand |
Avro 643 Cadet | United Kingdom | 1932 | 104 | Australia, China |
Avro Tutor | United Kingdom | 1933 | 606 | Canada, Denmark, Greece |
Beneš-Mráz Be-50 Beta-Minor | Czechoslovakia | 1935 | Germany, Slovakia | |
Blackburn B-2 | United Kingdom | 1932 | 42 | |
Boeing-Stearman Model 73/75/PT-13/PT-17/PT-18/NS/N2S Kaydet | United States | 1934 | 8,584 | Brazil, Canada, China, Philippines |
Breda Ba.25 & Ba.28 | Italy | 1932 | 766 | Hungary, China, Norway |
Bücker Bü 131, Ki-86, K9W1 | Germany | 1935 | 5,000 | Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Romania, Yugoslavia |
Bücker Bü 181 | Germany | 1940 | 3,400 | Bulgaria |
CAC Wackett | Australia | 1941 | 202 | |
Caproni Ca.164 | Italy | 1938 | 281 | France |
Consolidated PT-1 Trusty | United States | 1921 | 221 | Philippines, Thailand |
DAR 9 Siniger | Bulgaria | 1940 | 42 | Yugoslavia |
de Havilland DH.60 Moth | United Kingdom | 1925 | 1,535 | Australia, Denmark, Finland, Iraq, New Zealand, Norway |
de Havilland Tiger Moth[notes 16] | United Kingdom | 1932 | 8,868 | Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, India, Iraq, New Zealand, Norway |
Fairchild PT-19/23/26 Cornell | United States | 1940 | 7,700 | Brazil, Canada, Norway |
Fleet Fawn | Canada | 1931 | 71 | Brazil |
Fleet 10/16/Finch | Canada | 1939 | 606 | China, Brazil, Romania |
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 | Germany | 1932 | 1,900 | Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia |
Fokker S.IV | Netherlands | 1924 | 31 | |
Fokker S.IX | Netherlands | 1937 | 50 | |
Gotha Go 145 | Germany | 1935 | 1,182 | |
Hanriot H.43 | France | 1928 | 160 | |
Hanriot H.16 | France | 1930 | 54 | |
Heinkel He 72 | Germany | 1933 | Bulgaria | |
Kawasaki Army Type 92 Fighter | Japan | 1930 | 385 | |
Klemm Kl 25 | Germany | 1928 | 720 | Norway |
Koolhoven F.K.51 | Netherlands | 1935 | 142 | |
Letov Š-218 | Czechoslovakia | 1930 | Finland | |
Meyers OTW CPTP trainer | United States | 1936 | 102 | |
Miles Hawk | United Kingdom | 1933 | 55 | New Zealand |
Miles Magister | United Kingdom | 1937 | 1,303 | Norway |
Morane-Saulnier MS.230 | France | 1930 | 1,000 | Germany, Greece |
Morane-Saulnier MS.315 | France | 1932 | 356 | |
Mráz Zobor I[3] | Slovakia | 1942 | 18 | |
Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary | United States | 1936 | 997 | |
North American NA-16 | United States | 1935 | 1,935 | China, Brazil |
North American BT-9/BT-14/NJ | United States | 1936 | 260 | |
Piper J-4 | United States | 1938 | 1,251 | |
Ryan PT-16/20/21/22 Recruit | United States | 1934 | 1,568 | Australia, Netherlands |
RWD 8 | Poland | 1934 | 550 | Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia |
RWD 17 | Poland | 1938 | 30 | Romania |
Polikarpov Po-2 | Soviet Union | 1929 | 20,000 | |
Praga E-39 | Czechoslovakia | 1931 | 139 | |
PWS-16 | Poland | 1933 | 40 | Spain |
Repülőgépgyár Levente II | Hungary | 1943 | 88 | |
SAIMAN 200 | Italy | 1940 | 140 | Croatia, Germany |
Spartan NP-1 | United States | 1940 | 201 | |
Tachikawa Ki-9 | Japan | 1935 | 2,618 | |
Tachikawa Ki-17 | Japan | 1936 | 560 | |
Timm N2T Tutor | United States | 1943 | 262 | |
VL Sääski | Finland | 1928 | 38 | |
VL Viima | Finland | 1935 | 24 | |
Vultee BT-13/15/SNV Valiant | United States | 1939 | 9,525 | Brazil |
Waco UPF-7/PT-14 CPTP trainer | United States | 1930 | ||
Weiss WM-10 Ölyv | Hungary | 1933 | 14 | |
Yokosuka K5Y | Japan | 1934 | 5,770 | |
Yakovlev UT-2 | Soviet Union | 1937 | 7,243 | |
Zlín Z-XII | Czechoslovakia | 1935 | 252 | Germany, Slovakia, UK, Yugoslavia |
Advanced trainers
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ambrosini S.7 | Italy | 1943 | 12 | |
Ambrosini SAI.10 Grifone | Italy | 1940 | 10 | |
Arado Ar 65[notes 14] | Germany | 1931 | 85 | |
Arado Ar 66 | Germany | 1933 | 1,456 | |
Arado Ar 68[notes 14] | Germany | 1936 | 511 | |
Arado Ar 96 | Germany | 1939 | 2,891 | Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania |
Avia B.122 | Czechoslovakia | 1934 | Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Soviet Union | |
Bücker Bü 133 | Germany | 1938 | 250 | Hungary, Lithuania, Yugoslavia |
CAC Wirraway | Australia | 1939 | 755 | |
Kaproni Bulgarski KB-2/3/4/5 | Bulgaria | 1931 | ||
Caudron C.690 | France | 1939 | 19 | |
Curtiss-Wright CW-22/SNC Falcon | United States | 1942 | 442 | Netherlands |
Focke-Wulf Fw 56 | Germany | 1935 | 1,000 | |
Fokker D.XVII[notes 14] | Netherlands | 1932 | 12 | |
Hawker Hart Trainer | United Kingdom | 1930 | ||
I.Ae. 22 DL | Argentina | 1944 | 206 | |
IMAM Ro.41 | Italy | 1935 | 744 | |
Koolhoven F.K.56 | Netherlands | 1938 | 31 | Belgium |
Messerschmitt Bf 108 | Germany | 1935 | 885 | Brazil, Bulgaria, China Croatia, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Manchukuo, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia |
Miles Master | United Kingdom | 1939 | 3,249 | |
Mitsubishi A5M4-K[notes 17] | Japan | 1936 | 1,094 | |
Mitsubishi A6M2-K Zero[notes 17] | Japan | 1940 | 517 | |
Morane-Saulnier M.S.225[notes 14] | France | 1933 | 75 | |
Muniz M-9 | Brazil | 1937 | 56 | |
Mansyu Ki-79 | Japan | 1937 | 1,329 | |
Nardi FN.305 | Italy | 1938 | 211 | Romania, Hungary, France |
Nardi FN.316 | Italy | 1942 | 49 | Germany |
Nieuport-Delage NiD 62[notes 14] | France | 1931 | ||
North American NA-16 | United States | 1935 | 1,935 | France, Germany |
North American NA-64 Yale | United States | 1940 | 230 | Canada, France, Germany |
North American P-64[notes 18] | United States | 1940 | 13 | |
North American T-6/SNJ Texan/Harvard[notes 5] | United States | 1935 | 15,495 | Brazil, Canada, India, New Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom |
Orlogsværftet O-Maskinen | Denmark | 1926 | ||
Praga BH-41 | Czechoslovakia | 1931 | ||
PTO-4 | Estonia | 1938 | 8 | Germany |
PWS-26 | Poland | 1937 | 310 | Romania, Germany |
Rogožarski PVT | Yugoslavia | 1934 | 61 | |
Rogožarski R-100 | Yugoslavia | 1939 | 25 | |
Rogožarski SIM-X | Yugoslavia | 1937 | 21 | |
Romano R.82 | France | 1937 | 180 | |
SET 7 | Romania | 1931 | 123 | |
Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado | Belgium | 1933 | 32 | Latvia |
Tachikawa Ki-55 | Japan | 1940 | 1,389 | Japan, Thailand |
Svenska Aero Jaktfalken | Sweden | 1930 | 19 | Finland |
THK-2 | Turkey | 1944 | 6 | |
VEF I-12 | Latvia | 1935 | 12 | |
VL Tuisku | Finland | 1935 | 31 | |
VL Pyry | Finland | 1941 | 41 | |
Yakovlev UT-1 | Soviet Union | 1936 | 1,241 | China |
Zmaj Fizir FN | Yugoslavia | 1931 | 210 | Croatia, Italy |
Zmaj Fizir FP-2 | Yugoslavia | 1936 | 81 | Croatia, Italy |
Bomber trainers, target tugs and misc. trainers
[edit]Type | Origin | Role | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airspeed Oxford | United Kingdom | 1937 | 8,851 | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway | |
Avro 504N | United Kingdom | target tug | 1913; 7 Impressed 1940 | ||
Avro Anson T20/T21/T22[notes 5] | United Kingdom, Canada | 1936 | 366 | Greece, France, United States | |
Blackburn Botha | United Kingdom | bomber trainer & target tug | 1939 | ||
Bristol Buckmaster | United Kingdom | 1945 | 112 | ||
Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita | United States | 1942 | 2,371 | ||
Cessna AT-8/AT-17/UC-78/JRC Bobcat/Crane | United States | 1939 | 5,422 | Brazil, Canada, France | |
Consolidated AT-22/TB-24 Liberator | United States | 1943 | 287 | ||
CANT Z.1015 | Italy | torpedo bomber trainer | 1939 | 660 | |
Curtiss AT-9 | United States | 1941 | 792 | ||
De Havilland Dominie | United Kingdom | radio trainer | 1940 | 727 | |
Fairchild AT-21 Gunner | United States | 1943 | 175 | ||
Fairey IIIF | United Kingdom | target tug | 1926 | 968 | |
Fairey Battle[notes 14] | United Kingdom | 1939 | 2,201 | Australia, Canada, South Africa, Greece | |
Fairey Gordon[notes 14] | United Kingdom | 1931 | 186 | Australia | |
Fleet Fort | Canada | intermediate trainer/radio trainer | 1941 | 101 | |
Focke-Wulf Fw 58 | Germany | 1937 | 1,350 | Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania | |
Hanriot H.232 | France | 1940 | 35 | Finland | |
Hawker Demon | United Kingdom | target tug | 1930 | 35 | Australia |
Hawker Henley | United Kingdom | target tug | 1938 | 202 | |
Kyushu K10W | Japan | intermediate trainer/target tug | 1943 | 176 | |
Kyushu K11W | Japan | bomber crew trainer | 1943 | 798 | |
Lockheed AT-18 Hudson | United States | 1938 | 217 | ||
LWS-6/PZL.30 Żubr[notes 14] | Poland | 1938 | 17 | ||
Martin AT-23/TB-26 | United States | 1940 | 300 | ||
Miles Martinet | United Kingdom | target tug | 1942 | 1,724 | |
Miles Mentor | United Kingdom | radio trainer | 1938 | 45 | |
Mitsubishi K7M | Japan | 1931 | 2 | ||
Nardi FN.315 | Italy | intermediate trainer | 1938 | 33 | |
North American AT-24/TB-25 Mitchell | United States | 1941 | 354 | ||
Percival Proctor | United Kingdom | radio trainer | 1939 | 1,143 | |
Potez 56 | France | crew trainer/target tug | 1936 | 72 | |
Stinson Reliant | United States | 1933 | 1,327 | United Kingdom | |
Tachikawa Ki-54 | Japan | 1941 | 1,368 | ||
Westland Wallace[notes 14] | United Kingdom | 1933 | 172 | ||
Yokosuka K4Y | Japan | floatplane trainer | 1933 | 211 |
Rotorcraft
[edit]Type | Origin | Role | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cierva C.30 | United Kingdom | autogyro | 1934 | 148 | Belgium, France, Germany |
Flettner Fl 282 | Germany | helicopter | 1942 | 24 | |
Focke-Achgelis Fa 330[notes 8] | Germany | autogyro kite | 1943 | 200 | |
Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache | Germany | Helicopter | 1942 | 24 | Germany |
Kamov A-7 | Soviet Union | autogyro | 1934 | 7 | |
Kayaba Ka-1 and Ka-2 | Japan | autogyro | 1941 | 98 | |
Pitcairn PA-39[notes 19] | United States | autogyro | 1940 | United Kingdom | |
Sikorsky R-4 | United States | helicopter | 1944 | 131 | United Kingdom |
Sikorsky R-6 | United States | helicopter | 1945 | 225 | United Kingdom |
Lighter than air
[edit]Type | Origin | Role | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Goodyear G class blimp | United States | patrol blimp | 1935 | 10 | |
Goodyear K class blimp | United States | patrol blimp | 1938 | 132 | |
Goodyear L class blimp | United States | training blimp | 1938 | 22 | |
Goodyear M class blimp | United States | patrol blimp | 1944 | 4 |
Rockets and drones
[edit]Type | Origin | Role | Introduced | Total | Operators |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aeronautica Lombarda A.R. | Italy | radio controlled flying bomb | 1943 | ||
Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp | United Kingdom | target drone | 1937 | 7 | |
Culver PQ-8 | United States | target drone | 1940 | 600 | |
Culver PQ-14 Cadet | United States | target drone | 1942 | 2,043 | |
de Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee | United Kingdom | target drone | 1935 | 412 | |
Fieseler Fi 103R | Germany | manned missile | 1944 | 175 | |
Henschel Hs 293 | Germany | guided missile | 1943 | 100 | |
Interstate TDR | United States | assault drone | 1944 | 195 | |
McDonnell TD2D Katydid | United States | target drone | 1942 | ||
Naval Aircraft Factory TDN | United States | assault drone | 1942 | 104 | |
Naval Aircraft Modification Unit KDN Gorgon | United States | target drone | 1945 | 19 | |
Radioplane OQ-2 | United States | target drone | 1939 | 15,000 | |
V-1 Flying Bomb | Germany | surface to surface cruise missile | 1943 | 5,090 | |
V-2 rocket | Germany | surface to surface ballistic missile | 1944 | 3,000 | |
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka | Japan | manned missile | 1945 | 852 |
Prototypes
[edit]Prototypes were aircraft that were intended to enter service but did not, either due to changing requirements, failing to meet requirements or other problems. They may not have reached production before the end of the war but may have entered service post-war. If the aircraft was deployed to regular squadrons or used in an operational capacity other than evaluation, it should be listed above under its appropriate type. Napkinwaffe - paper projects and aircraft that first flew after the war are not included.
Fighter prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aeronautica Umbra Trojani AUT.18 | Italy | 1939 | 1 | |
Aichi S1A | Japan | 1945 | 2 | night fighter |
Ambrosini SS.4 | Italy | 1940 | 1 | canard pusher-engine fighter |
Ambrosini SAI.107 | Italy | 1940 | 14 | lightweight fighter |
Ambrosini SAI.403 | Italy | 1943 | 1 | lightweight fighter |
Arado Ar 240 | Germany | 1940 | 14 | |
Arsenal-Delanne 10 | France | 1941 | 1 | tandem-wing two-seat fighter |
Avia B.35 | Czechoslovakia | 1938 | 3 | |
Aviotehas PN-3 | Estonia | 1939 | 1 | |
Bachem Ba 349 Natter | Germany | 1945 | 36 | vertical launch point defence rocket interceptor |
Bell XP-77 | United States | 1944 | 2 | lightweight fighter |
Bell XP-83 | United States | 1945 | 2 | jet fighter |
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda[notes 2] flying cruiser | United States | 1940 | 13 | |
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 9 | rocket fighter |
Blohm & Voss BV 155 | Germany | 1944 | 3 | high-altitude fighter |
Boeing XF8B | United States | 1944 | 3 | |
Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress | United States | 1943 | 25 | bomber escort gunship |
Borovkov-Florov I-207 | Soviet Union | 1937 | 5 | cantilever-wing biplane fighter |
Boulton Paul P.92 | United Kingdom | 1937 | 1 | turret fighter |
Canadian Car and Foundry FDB-1 | Canada | 1938 | 1 | biplane fighter |
Caproni Ca.335/SABCA S.47 | Italy | 1939 | 1 | for Belgium |
Caproni Vizzola F.4 | Italy | 1940 | 1 | |
Caproni Vizzola F.5 | Italy | 1939 | 14 | |
Caproni Vizzola F.6 | Italy | 1941 | 2 | |
Chu XP-0 | China | 1943 | 1 | |
Consolidated XB-41 Liberator | United States | 1942 | 1 | bomber escort gunship |
Consolidated Vultee XP-81 | United States | 1945 | 2 | |
Curtiss XF14C | United States | 1944 | 1 | naval fighter with liquid-cooled engine |
Curtiss XF15C | United States | 1945 | 3 | inspired by the FR-1 Fireball |
Curtiss YP-37 | United States | 1937 | 14 | |
Curtiss XP-42 | United States | 1939 | 1 | |
Curtiss XP-46 | United States | 1941 | 2 | |
Curtiss XP-53/YP-60 | United States | 1942 | 6 | |
Curtiss XP-62 | United States | 1943 | 1 | |
Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender | United States | 1943 | 3 | canard pusher-engine fighter |
De Havilland Hornet | United Kingdom | 1944 | 383 | twin engined fighter, entered service post-war |
de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | 1943 | 3,268 | jet fighter entered service post-war |
Fokker D.XXIII | Netherlands | 1939 | 1 | push/pull twin-engine fighter |
Fiat G.56 | Italy | 1944 | 2 | |
Fisher P-75 Eagle | United States | 1943 | 14 | |
Gloster F.5/34 | United Kingdom | 1937 | 2 | No longer flying by 1941 |
Gloster F.9/37 | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1 | heavy fighter |
Grumman XF5F Skyrocket | United States | 1940 | 1 | |
Grumman XP-50 | United States | 1941 | 1 | |
Hawker Fury/Sea Fury | United Kingdom | 1944 | 864 | entered service post-war |
Hawker Hotspur | United Kingdom | 1938 | 1 | redesign of Hawker Henley as turret fighter |
Hawker Tornado | United Kingdom | 1939 | 4 | Rolls-Royce Vulture powered equivalent of Hawker Typhoon |
Heinkel He 280 | Germany | 1940 | 9 | |
Henschel Hs 132 | Germany | 1945 | 4 | prone pilot jet fighter/dive bomber |
Horten Ho 229 | Germany | 1944 | 3 | jet flying wing fighter |
Hughes D-2 | United States | 1943 | 1 | |
IMAM Ro.58 | Italy | 1942 | 1 | |
Kawasaki Ki-60 | Japan | 1941 | 3 | |
Kawasaki Ki-64 | Japan | 1943 | 1 | |
Kawasaki Ki-96 | Japan | 1943 | 3 | |
Koolhoven F.K.55 | Netherlands | 1938 | 1 | buried-engine fighter |
Kyushu J7W | Japan | 1945 | 2 | canard pusher-engine fighter |
Lockheed XP-49 | United States | 1942 | 1 | |
Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning | United States | 1944 | 1 | |
Macchi C.201 | Italy | 1940 | 2 | |
Martin-Baker MB 2 | United Kingdom | 1938 | 1 | |
Martin-Baker MB 3 | United Kingdom | 1942 | 1 | |
Martin-Baker MB 5 | United Kingdom | 1944 | 1 | |
McDonnell FD Phantom | United States | 1945 | 62 | naval jet fighter |
McDonnell XP-67 Bat | United States | 1944 | 1 | |
Messerschmitt Me 209 | Germany | 1938 | 4 | racer/fighter |
Messerschmitt Me 309 | Germany | 1942 | 4 | |
Messerschmitt Me 328 | Germany | 1944 | 9 | pulse jet fighter |
Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 | Soviet Union | 1945 | 12 | mixed-power fighter |
Miles M.20 | United Kingdom | 1940 | 2 | emergency fighter |
Mitsubishi A7M | Japan | 1944 | 9 | upgraded A6M |
Mitsubishi J8M | Japan | 1944 | 7 | rocket-propelled interceptor |
Moskalyev SAM-13 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 1 | |
Nakajima Ki-12 | Japan | 1936 | V12 fighter | |
Nakajima Kikka | Japan | 1945 | 1 | jet fighter |
Nikitin IS-1 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 2 | |
North American P-82 Twin Mustang | United States | 1945 | 272 | |
Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet | United States | 1943 | 2 | tailless pusher fighter |
Piaggio P.119 | Italy | 1942 | 1 | buried radial-engine fighter |
Polikarpov I-185 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 5 | |
Polikarpov ITP | Soviet Union | 1942 | 2 | |
Polikarpov TIS | Soviet Union | 1941 | 2 | |
Prajadhipok | Siam | 1929 | 1 | Thailand (formerly Siam) |
PZL.38 Wilk | Poland | 1938 | 2 | |
PZL.50 Jastrząb | Poland | 1939 | 1 | |
Reggiane Re.2006 | Italy | n/a | 1 | completed but not flown |
Renard R-36/R-37/R-38 | Belgium | 1938 | 1 | |
Republic XP-69/XP-72 | United States | 1943 | 2 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.88 | Italy | 1939 | 1 | heavy fighter |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.91 | Italy | 1943 | 2 | heavy fighter |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.92 | Italy | 1943 | 1 | heavy fighter |
SNCAO 200 | France | 1939 | 1 | |
SNCASE SE.100 | France | 1939 | 1 | |
Sukhoi Su-5 | Soviet Union | 1945 | 1 | mixed-power fighter |
Sukhoi Su-7 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 1 | high-altitude interceptor |
Tachikawa Ki-106 | Japan | 1945 | 3 | |
Varga RMI-1 X/H | Hungary | n/a | 1 | world's first turboprop aircraft, twin-engine fighter bomber, completed but not flown, destroyed by bombing raids before first flight |
VEF I-16 | Latvia | 1939 | 1 | lightweight fighter |
Vickers Type 432 | United Kingdom | 1942 | 1 | high-altitude heavy fighter |
VL Humu | Finland | 1944 | 1 | |
VL Pyörremyrsky | Finland | 1945 | 1 | |
Vultee XP-54 | United States | 1943 | 2 | high-altitude interceptor |
Weiss Manfréd WM-23 Ezüst Nyíl | Hungary | 1941 | 1 |
Bomber and attack aircraft prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aero A.300 | Czechoslovakia | 1938 | ||
ANBO VIII | Lithuania | 1939 | 1 | |
Avia B-158 | Czechoslovakia | 1938 | 1 | |
Avro Lincoln | United Kingdom | 1944 | 604 | Type entered service in 1945 after end of war |
Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly | United States | 1944 | 2 | |
Blackburn Firebrand | United Kingdom | 1942 | 223 | Type entered service in 1945 after end of war |
Bloch MB.162 | France | 1940 | 1 | |
Boeing XB-15 | United States | 1937 | 1 | Single large long range bomber prototype,converted to transport (as XC-105) during war |
Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress | United States | 1943 | 1 | alternative engine for B-17 Flying Fortress |
Boeing XB-39 Superfortress | United States | 1944 | 1 | alternative engine for B-29 project |
Boeing XB-44 Superfortress | United States | 1945 | 1 | development of B-50 Superfortress |
Breguet 462 | France | 1936 | 5 | Modernised version of Breguet 460 Vultur. Two served in Vichy France |
Breda Ba.75 | Italy | 1939 | 1 | |
Breda Ba.201 | Italy | 1941 | 2 | |
Brewster XA-32 | United States | 1943 | 2 | |
Bristol Brigand | United Kingdom | 1944 | 147 | entered service 1946 |
CAC Woomera | Australia | 1941 | 2 | |
CANSA FC.12 | Italy | 1940 | 11 | |
CANSA FC.20 | Italy | 1941 | 6 | |
CANT Z.1011 | Italy | 1936 | 6 | |
CANT Z.1018 | Italy | 1939 | 15 | |
Caproni Ca.355 | Italy | 1941 | 1 | |
Caudron C.670 Typhon | France | 1935 | 10 | one light bomber prototype (derived from C.640 high speed postal carrier) |
DAR 10 | Bulgaria | 1939 | 2 | |
Dornier Do 19 | Germany | 1936 | 3 | cancelled heavy bomber, possibly used as transport |
Dornier Do 317 | Germany | 1943 | 6 | heavy bomber |
Douglas AD Skyraider | United States | 1945 | 3,180 | torpedo/dive bomber |
Douglas BTD Destroyer | United States | 1944 | 30 | |
Douglas XB-19 | United States | 1941 | 1 | single aircraft to same specification as Boeing XB-15 |
Douglas XA-42 Mixmaster | United States | 1944 | 2 | buried engines driving pusher propeller in tail |
Douglas XTB2D Skypirate | United States | 1945 | 2 | intended successor of the Douglas Devastator |
Fairey Spearfish | United Kingdom | 1945 | 5 | |
Fiat AS.14 | Italy | 1943 | 186 | |
Focke-Wulf Fw 191 | Germany | 1942 | 3 | heavy bomber |
Fokker T.IX | Netherlands | 1939 | 1 | |
Heinkel He 119 | Germany | 1937 | 8 | unarmed reconnaissance bomber |
Heinkel He 274 | Germany | 1945 | 2 | high-altitude bomber |
Henschel Hs 130 | Germany | 1940 | high-altitude bomber | |
IAR 47 | Romania | 1942 | 2 | |
Junkers Ju 287 | Germany | 1944 | 2 | |
Junkers Ju 288 | Germany | 1940 | 22 | bomber |
Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK | United States | 1945 | 5 | dive and torpedo bomber |
Latécoère 299 | France | 1939 | 121 | carrier-based Latécoère 298 |
Letov Š-50 | Czechoslovakia | 1938 | 1 | |
Lockheed XP2V-1 Neptune | United States | 1945 | 1,177 | anti-submarine aircraft |
Messerschmitt Me 261 | Germany | 1940 | 3 | maritime reconnaissance |
Messerschmitt Me 264 | Germany | 1942 | 3 | 4-engine Amerika bomber |
Nakajima G5N | Japan | 1941 | 6 | |
Nakajima G8N | Japan | 1944 | 4 | |
North American XB-28 Dragon | United States | 1942 | 2 | high-altitude medium bomber |
Piaggio P.50 | Italy | 1937 | 3 | |
Polikarpov NB | Soviet Union | 1944 | 1 | |
PZL.42 | Poland | 1936 | ||
PZL.46 Sum | Poland | 1939 | 2 | |
Reggiane Re.2003 | Italy | 1941 | 1 | |
Rikugun Ki-93 | Japan | 1945 | 1 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.86 | Italy | 1940 | 34 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.89 | Italy | 1942 | 1 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.93 | Italy | 1944 | 1 | |
SNCAO CAO.600 | France | 1940 | 1 | |
Stearman XA-21 | United States | 1938 | 1 | twin engine attack aircraft (light bomber) |
Sukhoi Su-6 | Soviet Union | 1941 | 3 | |
Supermarine Type 322 | United Kingdom | 1943 | 2 | Naval torpedo/dive bomber, reconnaissance aircraft |
Tachikawa Ki-74 | Japan | 1944 | 16 | |
Vickers Windsor | United Kingdom | 1943 | 3 | High-altitude heavy bomber with a pressurised crew compartment |
Vultee XA-41 | United States | 1944 | 1 | |
Zmaj R-1 | Yugoslavia | 1940 | 1 |
Transport prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Blohm & Voss BV 144 | Germany | 1944 | 2 | built in France |
Boeing 367 YC-97 Stratofreighter | United States | 1944 | 77 | based on B-29, entered service in 1947 |
Burnelli UB-14/Cunliffe-Owen Clyde Clipper | United States | 1939 | 3 | prototype used by UK and France |
Consolidated R2Y | United States | 1944 | 1 | PB4Y-2 with new fuselage |
Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan | United States | 1943 | 255 | wood transport with nose doors |
Junkers Ju 390 | Germany | 1943 | 2 | heavy transport and maritime patrol |
Kokusai Ki-105 | Japan | 1945 | 2 | fuel transport |
Lockheed L-049 Constellation | United States | 1944 | 88 | civil version of the C-69 |
LWS-2 | Poland | 1937 | 1 | medical transport |
Martin 156 | Soviet Union | 1940 | 1 | Russian-built seaplane airliner |
Praga E-210 | Czechoslovakia | 1937 | 1 | |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 | Italy | 1943 | 20 | |
SNCASE Languedoc | France | 1939 | 100 | |
Stout XC-107 | United States | 1941 | 4 | flying car evaluated by USAAF |
Tachikawa Ki-77 | Japan | 1942 | 2 | very long-range transport |
Tachikawa Ki-92 | Japan | 1945 | 1 | troop/cargo transport |
Glider prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aeronautica Lombarda AL-12P | Italy | 1943 | 16 | |
Allied Aviation XLRA | United States | 1943 | 2 | seaplane glider |
Antonov A-40 | Soviet Union | 1942 | 1 | |
AVIA LM.02 | Italy | 1942 | bomber glider | |
Baynes Bat | United Kingdom | 1943 | 7 | experimental tailless glider |
Blohm & Voss BV 40 | Germany | 1944 | 2 | interceptor glider |
Bristol XLRQ | United States | 1943 | 3 | seaplane glider |
CAT TM-2 | Italy | 1943 | 2 | |
Chase YCG-14 | United States | 1945 | 2 | |
Cornelius XFG-1 | United States | 1944 | 1 | |
DFS 331 | Germany | 1942 | ||
Frankfort TG-1 | United States | 1940 | 43 | |
General Airborne Transport XCG-16 | United States | 1943 | 16 | |
Gotha Ka 430 | Germany | 1943 | 12 | |
Horten H.IV | Germany | 1941 | 4 | flying wing glider |
Horten H.V | Germany | 1937 | 2 | |
I.Ae. 25 Mañque | Argentina | 1945 | 1 | |
Junkers Ju 322 | Germany | 1941 | 2 | |
Kokusai Ku-7 | Japan | 1942 | 2 | |
Laister-Kauffman XCG-10 | United States | 1942 | 5 | |
Maeda Ku-6 | Japan | 1945 | 1 | |
Pratt-Read TG-32 | United States | 1940 | 75 | |
Polikarpov BDP | Soviet Union | 1943 | 2 | |
Slingsby T.20 | United Kingdom | 1944 | 1 | |
St. Louis CG-5 | United States | 1942 | 1 | |
Yokosuka MXY5 | Japan | 1942 | 12 |
Trainer prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Airspeed Cambridge | United Kingdom | 1941 | 2 | advanced trainer |
Boeing XAT-15 | United States | 1942 | 2 | |
CAT QR.14 | Italy | 1943 | ||
de Havilland Don | United Kingdom | 1938 | 30 | |
Fleetwings BT-12 | United States | 1942 | 25 | |
General Aircraft Cagnet | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1 | |
General Aircraft Cygnet | United Kingdom | 1937 | 11 | |
General Aircraft Owlet | United Kingdom | 1942 | 1 | |
Heston T.1/37 | United Kingdom | 1938 | 1 | |
Ikarus Aero 2 | Yugoslavia | 1940 | 248 | |
Ikarus MM-2 | Yugoslavia | 1941 | 1 | |
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.12 | Norway | 1939 | 4 | floatplane trainer |
Miles M.15 | United Kingdom | 1938 | 2 | |
Miles Kestrel | United Kingdom | 1937 | 1 | |
Miles Mercury | United Kingdom | 1941 | 6 | |
Miles Monitor | United Kingdom | 1944 | 22 | target tug |
Parnall 382 | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1 | |
PWS-33 Wyżeł | Poland | 1938 | 2 | twin-engine trainer |
PWS-35 Ogar | Poland | 1938 | 2 | |
Reid and Sigrist R.S.1 | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1 | twin-engine trainer |
Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 | United Kingdom | 1945 | 1 | twin-engine trainer |
Rogozarski SIM-XI | Yugoslavia | 1938 | 1 | |
St. Louis YPT-15 | United States | 1940 | 14 | primary trainer |
Stampe SV.4 | Belgium | 1933 | 1,050 | biplane trainer, flown before war, not used until after |
Stearman XBT-17 | United States | 1942 | 1 | monoplane trainer |
Yakovlev Yak-5 | Soviet Union | 1944 | 1 | |
Yokosuka D3Y | Japan | 1945 | 5 | bomber trainer |
Rotorcraft prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire | France | 1935 | 1 | Helicopter |
Dorand G.20 | France | n/a | Helicopter | |
Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 | Germany | 1942 | 20 | twin rotor transport helicopter |
Focke-Achgelis Fa 225 | Germany | 1942 | 1 | rotary wing glider |
Hafner Rotabuggy | United Kingdom | 1943 | 1 | towed autogyro jeep |
Higgins EB-1 | United States | 1943 | 1 | Helicopter |
Kellett KD-1/XO-60/YO-60 | United States | 1934 | autogyro | |
Landgraf H-2 | United States | 1944 | 1 | helicopter |
McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway | United States | 1944 | 1 | helicopter |
Piaggio-D'Ascanio PD3 | Italy | 1942 | helicopter | |
Piasecki HRP Rescuer | United States | 1945 | 28 | helicopter |
Platt-LePage XR-1 | United States | 1941 | 2 | helicopter |
Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 | United States | 1939 | amphibious helicopter |
Missile prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Blohm & Voss BV 143 | Germany | 1941 | 157 | anti-ship missile |
Blohm & Voss BV 246 | Germany | 1943 | 1,000 | Hagelkorn guided glide bomb |
EMW C2 Wasserfall | Germany | 1943 | guided surface-to-air missile developed from V-2 | |
Fletcher PQ-11 | United States | 1941 | 11 | target drone/glide bomb |
McDonnell LBD Gargoyle | United States | 1945 | 200 | air-to-surface missile |
Mistel | Germany | 1943 | 250 | large air-to-surface missile with parasite guidance aircraft |
Northrop JB-1 Bat | United States | 1944 | surface-to-surface missile | |
Republic-Ford JB-2 | United States | 1944 | 1,391 | surface-to-surface missile (V-1 copy) |
Rheinmetall-Borsig Feuerlilie | Germany | 1943 | surface-to-air missile | |
Ruhrstahl X-4 | Germany | 1944 | air-to-air missile |
Miscellaneous prototypes
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Airspeed Fleet Shadower | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1 | low speed shipborne aircraft for tracking enemy fleet visually |
AVIS C.4 | Italy | 1940 | 1 | liaison |
Bestetti Nardie BN.1 | Italy | 1940 | racer/fighter/liaison | |
Blackburn B-20 | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1 | seaplane with retractable hull |
Bloch MB.480 | France | 1939 | 2 | floatplane |
Blohm & Voss BV 141 | Germany | 1938 | 28 | asymmetrical tactical reconnaissance aircraft |
Blohm & Voss BV 238 | Germany | 1944 | 1 | large transport flying boat |
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger | United States | 1942 | 1 | patrol seaplane |
CANT Z.511 | Italy | 1940 | 2 | transport/bomber floatplane |
CANT Z.516 | Italy | 1940 | 1 | bomber floatplane |
Caproni Ca.316 | Italy | 1940 | 14 | floatplane |
Caproni Ca.331 | Italy | 1940 | 3 | reconnaissance aircraft, bomber, and night fighter |
Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor | United States | 1939 | 1 | patrol seaplane |
DFS 228 | Germany | 1944 | 2 | high-altitude manned reconnaissance rocket |
ERCO Ercoupe YO-55 | United States | 1940 | 5,685 | JATO tests |
Fairchild XBQ-3 | United States | 1944 | 2 | assault drone |
Fleetwings XBQ-2 | United States | 1943 | 1 | assault drone |
General Aircraft Fleet Shadower | United Kingdom | 1940 | 1 | low-speed shipborne aircraft for tracking enemy vessels |
Kawanishi E15K | Japan | 1941 | 15 | reconnaissance floatplane |
Kobeseiko Te-Gō | Japan | 1943 | 1 | STOL spotter/liaison |
Koolhoven F.K.49 | Netherlands | 1935 | 4 | photo survey |
Loire-Nieuport 10 | France | 1939 | 1 | patrol floatplane |
LWS-3 Mewa | Poland | 1938 | 30 | army cooperation |
Nakajima Ki-115 | Japan | 1945 | 104 | kamikaze aircraft |
Nihon L7P | Japan | 1942 | 1 | transport amphibian |
Nikol A-2 | Poland | 1939 | 1 | seaplane trainer |
Potez-CAMS 141 | France | 1938 | 1 | long range reconnaissance flying boat |
Praga E-51 | Czechoslovakia | 1938 | 1 | tactical reconnaissance |
SFAN 11 | France | 1940 | 1 | liaison |
Short Seaford | United Kingdom | 1944 | 10 | improved Sunderland, trials only |
Short Shetland | United Kingdom | 1944 | 2 | long range reconnaissance flying boat |
SNCAC NC.4-10 | France | 1939 | 1 | floatplane bomber/torpedo bomber |
SNCAO 30 | France | 1938 | 2 | seaplane trainer |
Tachikawa Ki-70 | Japan | 1943 | 3 | high-speed photo reconnaissance aircraft |
Tupolev MTB-2 | Soviet Union | 1937 | 2 | four-engine flying boat, cancelled after German invasion |
Zveno SPB | Soviet Union | 1938 | 2-5 parasite fighters carried by bomber |
Experimental aircraft
[edit]Aircraft intended to prove a concept or idea and which were not intended or suitable for military service. Does not include operational aircraft modified for experimental purposes.
Flight behaviour research
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
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Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 | United States | 1945 | 2 | flying wing |
Bell 30 | United States | 1943 | 3 | experimental helicopter |
Cierva W.9 | United Kingdom | 1945 | experimental helicopter | |
DFS 40 | Germany | 1939 | 1 | tailless aircraft |
DFS 194 | Germany | 1940 | 1 | aerodynamic testbed for Messerschmitt Me 163 |
Flettner Fl 265 | Germany | 1939 | 6 | intermesh rotor helicopter |
Göppingen Gö 9 | Germany | 1941 | 1 | tail mounted propeller testbed |
Handley Page Manx | United Kingdom | 1943 | 1 | tailless aircraft |
Hiller XH-44 | United States | 1944 | coaxial rotor helicopter | |
Hillson Bi-mono | United States | 1941 | 1 | slip wing testbed |
Kayaba Ku-2 | Japan | 1940 | 1 | tailless glider |
Kayaba Ku-3 | Japan | 1941 | 1 | tailless glider |
Kawasaki Ki-78 | Japan | 1942 | 1 | high speed flight |
Kellett XR-8 | United States | 1944 | 2 | intermesh rotor helicopter |
Lippisch DM-1 | Germany | 1944 | 1 | delta-wing glider |
Martin 162A Tadpole Clipper | United States | 1937 | 1,366 | half scale flyingboat |
Miles M.30 | United Kingdom | 1942 | 1 | blended wing |
Miles M.35 Libellula | United Kingdom | 1942 | 1 | tandem wing |
Miles M.39B Libellula | United Kingdom | 1943 | 1 | tandem wing/canard |
Northrop N-1M | United States | 1941 | 1 | flying wing |
Northrop N-9M | United States | 1942 | 4 | flying wing |
Payen PA-22 | France | 1942 | 1 | delta and tandem-wing |
Piasecki PV-2 | United States | 1943 | 1 | helicopter |
Saro Shrimp | United Kingdom | 1939 | 1 | half sized flying boat |
Tachikawa SS-1 | Japan | 1943 | 354 | high altitude research, pressurized cabin |
Vought V-173 | United States | 1942 | 1 | aerodynamic testbed for Vought XF5U which never flew |
Yokosuka MXY6 | Japan | 1943 | 2 | aerodynamic testbed for Kyushu J7W |
Yokosuka MXY8/Ku-13 | Japan | 1945 | aerodynamic testbed for Mitsubishi J8M rocket interceptor |
Engine research
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Caproni Campini N.1 | Italy | 1940 | 2 | jet engine testbed |
Folland Fo.108 | United Kingdom | 1940 | 12 | piston engine testbed |
Gloster E.28/39 | United Kingdom | 1941 | 2 | jet engine testbed |
Heinkel He 176 | Germany | 1939 | 1 | rocket engine testbed |
Heinkel He 178 | Germany | 1939 | 1 | jet engine testbed |
Misc research
[edit]Type | Origin | Introduced | Total | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Akaflieg Berlin B 9 | Germany | 1944 | 1 | prone pilot research |
Heinkel He 119 | Germany | 1937 | 8 | streamlining |
Piaggio P.111 | Italy | 1941 | 1 | high altitude research |
See also
[edit]- List of fighter aircraft
- List of bomber aircraft
- List of attack aircraft
- List of jet aircraft of World War II
- List of World War II military gliders
- List of aircraft of Canada's air forces
- List of aircraft of the French Air Force during World War II
- List of aircraft of Germany in World War II
- List of aircraft of Japan, World War II
- List of aircraft of Poland during World War II
- List of aircraft of the Red Army Air Forces
- List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II
- List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II
- List of aircraft of the United States during World War II
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Transport version only
- ^ a b Retired 1942
- ^ Retired by US before war
- ^ Obsolete fighter used for reconnaissance
- ^ a b c d e Also built in Canada
- ^ a b Prototype used operationally
- ^ Not used by France during the war
- ^ a b c d e f Submarine-borne aircraft
- ^ Not used by Germany
- ^ Also used as a trainer and photo reconnaissance.
- ^ a b Later versions built as transports
- ^ RCAF bought 2 ex-inflight refuelling aircraft
- ^ Retired by Germany before war
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Obsolete aircraft used for training
- ^ Paratroop transport and glider tug
- ^ Built in Canada & elsewhere
- ^ a b Variant specifically built as a trainer
- ^ Ordered by Thailand, disarmed and impressed as trainer
- ^ Not used by US
Citations
[edit]- ^ Thornburg, Chris (3 December 2006). "World Air Forces - Historical Listings Netherlands (NET)". Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ Thornburg, Chris (3 December 2006). "World Air Forces - Historical Listings Thailand (THL)". Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Mráz Zobor I". Slovakaf (in Slovak). Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
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