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 II 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.
Operational aircraft
Fighter aircraft
Biplane fighters
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avia B-534 | 1935 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Slovakia |
| Avia BH-33 | 1927 | Czechoslovakia | Yugoslavia |
| Armstrong Whitworth Scimitar | 1936 | UK | Norway |
| Blériot-SPAD S.510 | 1936 | France | |
| Boeing P-12 | 1930 | US | Brazil, China, Philippines, Thailand |
| Bristol Bulldog | 1929 | UK | Denmark, Finland |
| Curtiss Hawk II | 1932 | US | China |
| Curtiss Hawk III | 1933 | US | China, Thailand |
| Fiat CR.30 | 1932 | Italy | Austria, China, Germany, Hungary, Italy |
| Fiat CR.32 | 1934 | Italy | Italy, Hungary, China |
| Fiat CR.42 | 1939 | Italy | Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Hungary |
| Gloster Gamecock II/Kukko | 1925 | UK | Finland |
| Gloster Gauntlet | 1935 | UK | UK, Denmark, Finland |
| Gloster Gladiator/Sea Gladiator | 1937 | UK | UK, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Iraq, Lithuania, Norway |
| Grumman Goblin[notes 1] | 1933 | US | Canada |
| Grumman F2F carrier fighter | 1935 | US | Us |
| Grumman F3F carrier fighter | 1936 | US | |
| Hawker Demon | 1931 | UK | UK, Australia |
| Hawker Fury | 1931 | UK | Yugoslavia, South Africa |
| Hawker Nimrod carrier fighter | 1933 | UK | Denmark |
| Heinkel He 51 | 1935 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria |
| IMAM Ro.44 floatplane fighter | 1937 | Italy | |
| Kawasaki Ki-10[notes 2] | 1935 | Japan | |
| Kochyerigin DI-6 | 1934 | USSR | |
| Koolhoven F.K.52 | 1939 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Finland |
| Polikarpov I-5 | 1931 | USSR | |
| Polikarpov I-15 & I-15bis | 1934 | USSR | USSR, China, Finland |
| Polikarpov I-153 | 1939 | USSR | USSR, China, Finland |
| Prachadhipok | 1929 | Siam (Thailand) |
Single-engined, single-seat monoplane fighters and fighter bombers
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambrosini SAI.207 | 1942 | Italy | |
| Ansaldo A.120 | 1925 | Italy | Italy, Lithuania |
| Arsenal VG-33 | 1940 | France | |
| Avia B-135 | 1941 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria |
| Bell P-39 Airacobra | 1941 | US | US, Australia, France, UK, USSR |
| Bell P-63 Kingcobra | 1942 | US | US, USSR |
| Bloch MB.150–157 | 1940 | France | France, Greece, Romania |
| Boeing P-26 Peashooter | 1933 | US | US, China, Philippines |
| Breda Ba.27 | 1933 | Italy | China |
| Brewster F2A Buffalo | 1939 | US | US, Australia, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK |
| CAC Boomerang | 1943 | Australia | |
| Caudron C.714 | 1940 | France | France, Finland, Poland |
| Curtiss P-36 Hawk/Mohawk | 1938 | US | US, Brazil, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Thailand, UK |
| Curtiss P-40 Warhawk/Tomahawk/Kittyhawk | 1939 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, USSR |
| Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Demon | 1939 | US | China, Netherlands |
| Dewoitine D.500/D.510 | 1935 | France | France, China, Lithuania |
| Dewoitine D.520 | 1940 | France | France, Bulgaria, Italy |
| Fiat G.50 | 1938 | Italy | Italy, Finland, Croatia |
| Fiat G.55 | 1943 | Italy | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 190 | 1941 | Germany | Germany, Hungary, Romania |
| Focke-Wulf Ta 152 | 1945 | Germany | |
| Fokker D.XXI | 1936 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Denmark, Finland |
| Grumman F4F/FM Wildcat/Martlet[notes 3] | 1940 | US | US, UK |
| Grumman F6F Hellcat/Gannet[notes 3] | 1943 | US | US, UK |
| Grumman F8F Bearcat[notes 3][notes 4] | 1945 | US | |
| Hawker Hurricane/Sea Hurricane | 1937 | UK | UK, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, India, New Zealand, USSR |
| Hawker Tempest | 1944 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Hawker Typhoon | 1940 | UK | UK, Canada, New Zealand |
| Heinkel He 112 | 1937 | Germany | Germany, Hungary, Romania |
| IAR 80/IAR 81 | 1941 | Romania | |
| Ikarus IK-2 | 1935 | Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia, Croatia |
| Kawanishi N1K/N1K-J | 1943 | Japan | |
| Kawasaki Ki-61 | 1942 | Japan | |
| Kawasaki Ki-100 | 1945 | Japan | |
| Koolhoven F.K.58 | 1940 | Netherlands | Netherlands, France |
| Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-1 | 1940 | USSR | |
| Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3 | 1941 | USSR | USSR, Finland |
| Lavochkin La-5 | 1942 | USSR | |
| Lavochkin La-7 | 1944 | USSR | |
| Loire 46 | 1936 | France | |
| Macchi C.200 | 1939 | Italy | |
| Macchi C.202 | 1941 | Italy | Italy, Croatia, Germany |
| Macchi C.205 | 1943 | Italy | Italy, Croatia, Germany |
| MÁVAG Héja | 1941 | Hungary | |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109 | 1937 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-1 | 1940 | USSR | |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 | 1941 | USSR | |
| Mitsubishi A5M[notes 3][notes 5] | 1936 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi A6M Zero[notes 3] | 1940 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi J2M | 1942 | Japan | |
| Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 | 1939 | France | France, Croatia, Finland, Italy, Poland |
| Nakajima A6M2-N floatplane fighter | 1942 | Japan | |
| Nakajima Ki-27 | 1937 | Japan | Japan, Manchukuo, Thailand |
| Nakajima Ki-43 | 1941 | Japan | Japan, Manchukuo, Thailand |
| Nakajima Ki-44 | 1942 | Japan | |
| Nakajima Ki-84 | 1943 | Japan | |
| North American P-51 Mustang | 1942 | US | US, Australia, Canada, China, France, South Africa, UK, USSR |
| Polikarpov I-16 | 1934 | USSR | USSR, China, Finland |
| PZL P.7 | 1933 | Poland | |
| PZL P.11 | 1934 | Poland | Poland, Romania |
| PZL P.24 | 1936 | Poland | Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania |
| Reggiane Re.2000 | 1940 | Italy | Sweden, Hungary, Italy |
| Reggiane Re.2001 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Reggiane Re.2005 | 1943 | Italy | Italy, Germany |
| Republic P-43 Lancer | 1941 | US | US, Australia, China |
| Republic P-47 Thunderbolt | 1942 | US | US, Brazil, France, Mexico, UK, USSR |
| Rogožarski IK-3 | 1940 | Yugoslavia | |
| Seversky P-35 | 1937 | US | US, Philippines |
| Supermarine Seafire[notes 3] | 1942 | UK | |
| Supermarine Spitfire | 1938 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, US, USSR |
| VL Myrsky | 1943 | Finland | |
| Vought F4U/FG Corsair[notes 3] | 1942 | US | US, UK, New Zealand |
| Vultee P-66 Vanguard | 1941 | US | US, China |
| Yakovlev Yak-1 | 1940 | USSR | USSR, France |
| Yakovlev Yak-3 | 1944 | USSR | USSR, France |
| Yakovlev Yak-7/Yak-7B | 1942 | USSR | USSR, France |
| Yakovlev Yak-9 | 1942 | USSR | USSR, France |
Heavy fighters (multi-engined or multi-seat) and night fighters
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell YFM-1 Airacuda[notes 2] flying cruiser | 1940 | US | |
| Blackburn Roc turret fighter | 1939 | UK | |
| Blackburn Skua fighter/dive bomber | 1938 | UK | |
| Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter | 1939 | UK | |
| Bristol Beaufighter | 1940 | UK | Australia, South Africa, US |
| Bristol Blenheim night fighter | 1937 | UK | Canada |
| de Havilland Mosquito night fighter/fighter bomber | 1941 | UK | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US |
| Dornier Do 215 night fighter | 1939 | Germany | Hungary |
| Dornier Do 217 night fighter | 1941 | Germany | Italy |
| Dornier Do 335 | 1944 | Germany | |
| Douglas P-70 Havoc night fighter | 1941 | US | UK |
| Fairey Firefly [notes 6] | 1941 | UK | |
| Fairey Fulmar[notes 3] | 1940 | UK | |
| Focke-Wulf Ta 154 night fighter | 1944 | Germany | |
| Fokker G.I | 1939 | Netherlands | |
| Grumman F7F Tigercat carrier night fighter | 1944 | US | |
| Heinkel He 219 night fighter | 1943 | Germany | |
| IMAM Ro.57 | 1943 | Italy | |
| Junkers Ju 88 night fighter | 1940 | Germany | |
| Junkers Ju 388 night fighter | 1944 | Germany | |
| Kawasaki Ki-45 night fighter | 1942 | Japan | |
| Kawasaki Ki-102 twin-engine fighter | 1945 | Japan | |
| Lockheed P-38 Lightning | 1941 | US | China |
| Messerschmitt Bf 110 | 1937 | Germany | Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Iraq, Romania |
| Messerschmitt Me 210 | 1943 | Germany | Hungary |
| Messerschmitt Me 410 | 1943 | Germany | |
| Mitsubishi Ki-109 bomber interceptor | 1945 | Japan | |
| Nakajima J1N night fighter/interceptor | 1942 | Japan | |
| Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter | 1944 | US | |
| Petlyakov Pe-3 | 1941 | USSR | Finland |
| Potez 630 | 1938 | France | Greece, Romania |
| Westland Welkin high altitude interceptor | 1944 | UK | |
| Westland Whirlwind | 1940 | UK |
Jet- and rocket- propelled fighters
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell P-59 Airacomet | 1944 | US | |
| Gloster Meteor | 1944 | UK | |
| Heinkel He 162 | 1945 | Germany | |
| Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star | 1945 | US | |
| Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket interceptor | 1944 | Germany | |
| Messerschmitt Me 262 | 1944 | Germany | |
| Ryan FR Fireball mixed power carrier fighter | 1945 | US |
Bomber and attack aircraft
Medium and heavy bombers, and maritime patrol
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Number Built | Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amiot 143 | 1936 | 138 | France | |
| Amiot 354 | 1940 | ca. 86 | France | France, Germany |
| Arado Ar 234 jet bomber | 1944 | 214 | Germany | |
| Arkhangelsky Ar-2 | 1940 | ca. 190 | USSR | |
| Armstrong Whitworth Whitley | 1937 | 1,814 | UK | |
| Avia F.39 | 1932 | 18 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Avro Anson | 1936 | 11,020 | UK | UK, Canada, Finland, Greece, Iraq |
| Avro Lancaster | 1942 | 7,377 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada |
| Avro Manchester | 1940 | 202 | UK | |
| Blackburn Botha | 1939 | 580 | UK | |
| Bloch MB.131 | 1938 | 143 | France | |
| Bloch MB.170 | 1940 | 88 | France | |
| Bloch MB.200 | 1935 | 332 | France | France, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany |
| Bloch MB.210 | 1937 | ca. 300 | France | |
| Blohm & Voss BV 142 maritime patrol[notes 7] | 1940 | 4 | Germany | |
| Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | 1940 | 12,731 | US | US, Canada, UK |
| Boeing B-29 Superfortress | 1944 | 3,970 | US | |
| Breda Ba.88 | 1938 | 149 | Italy | |
| Bristol Beaufort | 1940 | 1,821 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa |
| Bristol Blenheim/Bolingbroke/Bisley[notes 8] | 1937 | 4,422 | UK | UK, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, Yugoslavia |
| CANT Z.1007 | 1938 | 660 | Italy | |
| Caproni Ca.135 | 1937 | ca. 140 | Italy | Italy, Hungary |
| Caproni Ca.309 | 1937 | 243+ | Italy | Italy, Bulgaria |
| Caproni Ca.310-Ca.314 | 1938 | 312 | Italy | Italy, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Yugoslavia |
| Consolidated B-24/LB-30/PB4Y-1 Liberator | 1940 | 18,188 | US | US, Australia, Canada, UK |
| Consolidated B-32 Dominator | 1942 | 118 | US | |
| Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer maritime patrol | 1943 | 739 | US | |
| Curtiss A-18 Shrike | 1936 | 13 | US | |
| de Havilland Mosquito[notes 8] | 1941 | 7,781 | UK | UK, Canada, Australia, Norway |
| Dornier Do 11[notes 9] | 1932 | 372 | Germany | Bulgaria |
| Dornier Do 17 | 1937 | 2,139 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Yugoslavia |
| Dornier Do 215 | 1939 | 105 | Germany | |
| Dornier Do 217 | 1941 | 1,925 | Germany | Germany, Italy |
| Douglas A-20 Havoc/Boston | 1941 | 7,478 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Netherlands, South Africa, UK, USSR |
| Douglas A-26 Invader | 1944 | 2,503 | US | |
| Douglas B-18 Bolo/Digby[notes 10] | 1936 | 350 | US | US, Brazil, Canada |
| Douglas B-23/UC-67 Dragon[notes 11] | 1939 | 38 | US | |
| Farman F.221-223 | 1936 | ca. 80 | France | |
| Fiat BR.20[notes 12] | 1938 | 500+ | Italy | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor maritime patrol | 1940 | 276 | Germany | |
| Fokker T.V | 1938 | 16 | Netherlands | |
| Handley Page Halifax | 1940 | 6,176 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, France |
| Handley Page Hampden | 1938 | 1,430 | UK | UK, Canada, USSR |
| Heinkel He 111 | 1936 | 5,656 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia |
| Heinkel He 177 | 1943 | 1,169 | Germany | |
| IAR 79 | 1941 | 72 | Romania | |
| Ilyushin DB-3/Il-4 | 1938 | 7,084 | USSR | USSR, Finland |
| Junkers Ju 86 | 1936 | ca. 900 | Germany | Germany, Hungary, South Africa |
| Junkers Ju 88 | 1938 | 15,183 | Germany | Germany, Finland, Italy, Romania |
| Junkers Ju 188 | 1943 | 1,234 | Germany | Germany, Hungary |
| Kawasaki Ki-48 | 1940 | 1,997 | Japan | |
| Keystone B-3A[notes 13] | 1926 | 63 | US | Philippines |
| Kyushu Q1W maritime patrol | 1945 | 153 | Japan | |
| Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 | 1939 | 561 | France | |
| Lockheed Hudson | 1939 | 2,941 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK |
| Lockheed PV-1 Ventura/B-34 Lexington and PV-2 Harpoon | 1942 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK | |
| Martin 139 & 166 (B-10 & B-12) | 1934 | 348 | US | Netherlands,[1]Philippines, Thailand[2] |
| Martin B-26 Marauder | 1941 | 5,288 | US | US, France, South Africa, UK |
| Martin Baltimore | 1941 | 1,575 | US | US, Australia France, Greece, Co-Belligerent Italy, South Africa, UK |
| Martin Maryland | 1939 | 450 | US | France, South Africa, UK |
| Mitsubishi G3M | 1937 | 1,048 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi G4M | 1941 | 2,435 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi Ki-21 | 1938 | 2,064 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Mitsubishi Ki-67 | 1942 | 767 | Japan | |
| North American B-25 Mitchell | 1941 | 9,816 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Netherlands, UK, USSR |
| Nakajima Ki-49 | 1938 | 819 | Japan | |
| Petlyakov Pe-2 | 1941 | 11,070 | USSR | USSR, Finland |
| Petlyakov Pe-8 | 1940 | 93 | USSR | |
| Piaggio P.108 | 1942 | 50 | Italy | Italy, Germany[notes 14] |
| Potez 540 | 1934 | 192 | France | |
| PZL.37 Łoś | 1938 | 120+ | Poland | Poland, Germany, Romania |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 trimotor | 1937 | 1,240 | Italy | Italy, Iraq, Romania, Yugoslavia |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 trimotor | 1935 | 535 | Italy | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.84 trimotor | 1941 | 329 | Italy | |
| Short Stirling | 1940 | 2,371 | UK | |
| Tupolev SB/Avia B.71 | 1934 | 6,656 | USSR | USSR, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland |
| Tupolev TB-1 | 1929 | 218 | USSR | |
| Tupolev TB-3 | 1932 | 818 | USSR | |
| Tupolev Tu-2 | 1944 | 2,257 | USSR | |
| Vickers Warwick | 1942 | 846 | UK | |
| Vickers Wellington | 1938 | ca. 11,462 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa |
| Yermolayev Yer-2 | 1941 | ca 365 | USSR | |
| Yokosuka P1Y | 1945 | 1,102 | Japan |
Light bombers, tactical reconnaissance and observation aircraft
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aero A.32[notes 15] | 1928 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Finland |
| Aero A.100 | 1933 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Aero A.304 | 1937 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Germany |
| ANF Les Mureaux 113, 115, 117 | 1933 | France | |
| Armstrong Whitworth Atlas[notes 16] | 1927 | UK | Canada |
| Blackburn Ripon[notes 16] | 1929 | UK | Finland |
| Blackburn Shark | 1935 | UK | UK, Canada |
| Boripatra | 1927 | Siam (Thailand) | |
| Breda Ba.64 | 1937 | Italy | |
| Breda Ba.65 | 1937 | Italy | Italy, Iraq |
| Breguet 19 | 1924 | France | France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Poland |
| Breguet 270 Series | 1930 | France | France, China |
| Breguet 691, 693, 695 | 1939 | France | |
| Curtiss A-12 Shrike[notes 2] | 1933 | US | |
| Curtiss Falcon O-1/O-2 | 1928 | US | Philippines |
| Curtiss O-52 Owl | 1940 | US | US, USSR |
| DAR-3 Garvan | 1937 | Bulgaria | |
| Douglas O-43 | 1933 | US | |
| Douglas O-46 | 1936 | US | US, Philippines |
| Fairey Battle | 1937 | UK | UK, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Greece |
| Fairey Fox | 1932 | UK | Belgium |
| Fairey Gordon | 1931 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Fairey IIIF[notes 17] | 1926 | UK | UK, Greece |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 189 | 1941 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania |
| Fokker C.V | 1924 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway |
| Fokker C.VIII | 1928 | Netherlands | |
| Fokker C.X | 1932 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Finland |
| Hawker Hart | 1930 | UK | UK, Finland |
| Hawker Audax, Nisr & Hartebees | 1931 | UK | UK, India, Iraq, Persia, South Africa |
| Hawker Hector | 1936 | UK | |
| Hawker Hind | 1935 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Hawker Horsley/Dantorp | 1927 | UK | Greece, Denmark |
| Heinkel He 45 | 1931 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary |
| Heinkel He 46 | 1931 | Germany | Germany, Hungary |
| Heinkel He 50 | 1935 | Germany | |
| Henschel Hs 123 | 1936 | Germany | |
| Henschel Hs 126 | 1937 | Germany | Germany, Croatia, Estonia, Greece |
| Henschel Hs 129 | 1938 | Germany | |
| IAR 37/38/39 | 1938 | Romania | |
| Ilyushin Il-2 | 1941 | USSR | |
| Ilyushin Il-10 | 1944 | USSR | |
| IMAM Ro.37 | 1935 | Italy | Italy, Hungary |
| Junkers Ju 87 | 1937 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Italy |
| Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 | 1941 | Bulgaria | |
| Kawasaki Ki-32 | 1938 | Japan | Japan, Manchukuo |
| Kharkov KhAI-5/Neman R-10 | 1936 | USSR | |
| Letov Š-16 | 1928 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Turkey |
| Letov Š-328 | 1934 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania |
| Lublin R-XIII | 1932 | Poland | Poland, Romania |
| Mitsubishi Ki-30 | 1938 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Mitsubishi Ki-51 | 1939 | Japan | |
| North American A-36 Apache dive bomber | 1942 | US | |
| North American O-47 | 1934 | US | |
| Northrop/Douglas A-17/8-A/Nomad | 1935 | US | US, South Africa, Canada, France, Iraq, Netherlands, Norway, UK |
| Polikarpov Po-2 | 1929 | USSR | USSR, Finland |
| Polikarpov R-5 | 1931 | USSR | |
| Polikarpov R-Z | 1935 | USSR | USSR |
| Potez 25[notes 5] | 1925 | France | France, Yugoslavia, Poland |
| PZL.23/43 Karaś | 1936 | Poland | Poland, Romania, Bulgaria |
| PZL.43 | 1936 | Poland | Poland, Germany, Bulgaria |
| Reggiane Re.2002 | 1941 | Italy | Italy, Germany |
| Rogožarski R-100 | 1938 | Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia, Croatia |
| Renard R-31 | 1935 | Belgium | |
| RWD-14 Czapla | 1939 | Poland | Poland, Romania |
| Saab 17 | 1940 | Sweden | Denmark |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.85 | 1939 | Italy | |
| Sukhoi Su-2 | 1937 | USSR | |
| Tachikawa Ki-36 | 1938 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Thomas-Morse O-19 | 1929 | US | Philippines |
| Vickers Vildebeest | 1933 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Vickers Wellesley | 1937 | UK | |
| VL Kotka | 1931 | Finland | |
| Vought O2U & O3U Corsair | 1926 | US | US, Brazil, China, Thailand |
| Vultee A-31/A-35/Vengeance dive bomber | 1942 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, France, India, UK |
| Vultee V-11/V-12/A-19/BSh-1[notes 18] | 1939 | US | US, Brazil, China, USSR |
| Weiss WM-21 Sólyom | 1938 | Hungary | |
| Westland Lysander[notes 8] | 1936 | UK | UK, Canada, France, Finland, India, US |
| Westland Wapiti[notes 16] | 1928 | UK | Australia, Canada, India |
| Westland Wallace | 1933 | UK | |
| Yakovlev Yak-4 | 1941 | USSR |
Carrier-based naval bombers
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi B7A torpedo/dive bomber | 1945 | Japan | |
| Aichi D1A dive bomber[notes 2] | 1934 | Japan | |
| Aichi D3A dive bomber | 1937 | Japan | |
| Blackburn Skua fighter/dive bomber | 1938 | UK | |
| Brewster SB2A Buccaneer/Bermuda dive bomber | 1941 | US | US, UK |
| Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf torpedo bomber | 1944 | US | |
| Curtiss SB2C Helldiver/A-25 Shrike dive bomber | 1943 | US | US, Australia, UK |
| Curtiss SBC Helldiver/Cleveland dive bomber | 1938 | US | US, France, UK |
| Douglas DT torpedo bomber[notes 13] | 1921 | US | Norway |
| Douglas SBD Dauntless/A-24 Banshee dive bomber | 1940 | US | US, New Zealand |
| Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber | 1935 | US | |
| Fairey Albacore torpedo/dive bomber | 1940 | UK | UK, Canada |
| Fairey Barracuda torpedo/dive bomber | 1942 | UK | |
| Fairey Swordfish torpedo bomber | 1936 | UK | UK, Canada |
| Fieseler Fi 167 torpedo/reconnaissance bomber | 1940 | Germany | Germany, Croatia, Romania |
| Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger torpedo bomber | 1942 | US | US, UK, New Zealand |
| Loire-Nieuport LN.401 dive bomber | 1939 | France | |
| Mitsubishi B5M torpedo bomber | 1937 | Japan | |
| Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber | 1938 | Japan | |
| Nakajima B6N torpedo bomber | 1942 | Japan | |
| Naval Aircraft Factory SBN dive bomber | 1941 | US | |
| Northrop BT dive bomber | 1935 | US | |
| Vought SB2U Vindicator/Chesapeake dive bomber | 1937 | US | US, UK, France |
| Yokosuka B4Y torpedo bomber | 1936 | Japan | |
| Yokosuka D4Y dive bomber/night fighter | 1942 | Japan |
Strategic and photo-reconnaissance aircraft
Strategic and photo-reconnaissance aircraft were frequently specially modified variants of high performance aircraft, usually fighters or bombers.
Seaplanes
Flying boats
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi E10A | 1934 | Japan | |
| Aichi E11A | 1937 | Japan | |
| Aichi H9A | 1942 | Japan | |
| Beriev MBR-2 | 1935 | USSR | |
| Blohm & Voss BV 138 | 1940 | Germany | |
| Blohm & Voss BV 222 | 1941 | Germany | |
| Boeing 314/C-98 Clipper | 1939 | US | |
| Bréguet 521 Bizerte | 1935 | France | France, Germany |
| CAMS 37 | 1926 | France | |
| CAMS 55 | 1930 | France | |
| Canadian Vickers Vancouver | 1930 | Canada | |
| Canadian Vickers Vedette | 1925 | Canada | |
| CANT Z.501 | 1935 | Italy | Italy, Romania |
| Chyetverikov MDR-6 | 1941 | USSR | |
| Consolidated PBY/PBN/PBV/OA-10 Catalina/Canso[notes 8] | 1935 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Norway, UK, USSR |
| Consolidated P2Y | 1929 | US | US, Argentina |
| Consolidated PB2Y Coronado | 1937 | US | US, UK |
| Dornier Do 18 | 1938 | Germany | |
| Dornier Do 24 | 1937 | Germany | Germany, Australia, Netherlands |
| Dornier Do 26 | 1938 | Germany | |
| Dornier Do J | 1922 | Germany | Denmark |
| Douglas Dolphin | 1931 | US | US, Australia |
| Grumman JRF Goose | 1937 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, UK |
| Grumman J4F Widgeon/Gosling | 1940 | US | US, Brazil, UK |
| Grumman J2F Duck | 1936 | US | |
| Hall PH | 1931 | US | |
| Ikarus IO | 1926 | Yugoslavia | |
| Ikarus ŠM | 1924 | Yugoslavia | |
| Kawanishi E11K | 1937 | Japan | |
| Kawanishi H6K | 1938 | Japan | |
| Kawanishi H8K | 1942 | Japan | |
| Latécoère 302 | 1932 | France | |
| Latécoère 521-523 | 1935 | France | |
| Latécoère 611[notes 7] | 1940 | France | |
| Latécoère 631 | 1942 | France | Germany |
| Lioré et Olivier LeO H-47 | 1937 | France | |
| Lioré et Olivier LeO H-242 | 1929 | France | Italy |
| Lioré et Olivier LeO H-246 | 1939 | France | France, Germany |
| Loire 70 | 1937 | France | |
| Loire 130 | 1937 | France | |
| Loire 501 | 1933 | France | |
| Macchi M.C.100 | 1940 | Italy | |
| Martin M-130 | 1934 | US | |
| Martin JRM Mars | 1943 | US | |
| Martin PBM Mariner | 1940 | US | US, UK, Australia, Netherlands |
| Potez 141[notes 7] | 1938 | France | France, Germany |
| Potez-CAMS 161 | 1938 | France | Germany |
| Potez 452 | 1936 | France | |
| RAS-1 Getta | 1925 | Romania | |
| Saro Lerwick | 1940 | UK | |
| Saro London | 1936 | UK | |
| Savoia-Marchetti S.55 | 1926 | Italy | Italy, Romania |
| Savoia-Marchetti S.62bis | 1926 | Italy | Romania |
| Savoia-Marchetti S.66 | 1931 | Italy | |
| Shavrov Sh-2 | 1934 | USSR | USSR, Finland |
| Short Empire | 1936 | UK | UK, Australia, New Zealand |
| Short S.26 | 1940 | UK | |
| Short S.25 Hythe/Sandringham | 1942 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Short Singapore | 1935 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Short Sunderland | 1938 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, Norway |
| Sikorsky S-40 | 1931 | US | |
| Sikorsky S-42 | 1934 | US | |
| Sikorsky JRS-1/OA-8 | 1935 | US | |
| Sikorsky VS-44/JR2S-1 | 1937 | US | |
| SNCASE SE.200[notes 20] | 1942 | France | Germany |
| Supermarine Sea Otter | 1942 | UK | |
| Supermarine Stranraer[notes 8] | 1937 | UK | UK, Canada |
| Supermarine Walrus | 1935 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand |
| Tupolev MTB-1 | 1929 | USSR | |
| Yokosuka H5Y | 1939 | Japan |
Floatplanes
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi E13A | 1941 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Aichi E16A | 1944 | Japan | |
| Aichi M6A[notes 21] | 1945 | Japan | |
| Arado Ar 95 | 1936 | Germany | |
| Arado Ar 196 | 1938 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway |
| Arado Ar 199 trainer | 1939 | Germany | |
| Arado Ar 231[notes 21] | 1941 | Germany | |
| Beriev Be-2 | 1938 | USSR | |
| Beriev Be-4 | 1942 | USSR | |
| Besson MB.411[notes 21] | 1935 | France | |
| CANT Z.506 | 1936 | Italy | |
| CANT Z.515 | 1940 | Italy | |
| Curtiss SC Seahawk | 1944 | US | |
| Curtiss SO3C Seamew | 1942 | US | US, UK |
| Curtiss SOC Seagull | 1935 | US | |
| Dornier Do 22 | 1938 | Germany | Germany, Finland, Greece, Yugoslavia |
| Fairey Seafox | 1937 | UK | |
| Fairey Swordfish | 1936 | UK | |
| Farman NC.470 | 1938 | France | |
| Fiat RS.14 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Fokker C.XI-W | 1935 | Netherlands | |
| Fokker C.XIV-W | 1937 | Netherlands | |
| Fokker T.IV | 1927 | Netherlands | |
| Fokker T.VIII | 1938 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Germany, UK |
| Gourdou-Leseurre GL-810-813 HY | 1930 | France | |
| Gourdou-Leseurre GL-832 HY | 1930 | France | |
| Heinkel HE 8[notes 22] | 1927 | Germany | Denmark |
| Heinkel He 42 floatplane trainer | 1929 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Heinkel He 59 | 1935 | Germany | Germany, Finland |
| Heinkel He 60 | 1933 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Heinkel He 114 | 1939 | Germany | Germany, Romania |
| Heinkel He 115 | 1939 | Germany | Germany, Finland, Norway, UK |
| IMAM Ro.43 | 1935 | Italy | |
| IMAM Ro.44 | 1936 | Italy | |
| Kawanishi E7K | 1935 | Japan | |
| Kawanishi N1K floatplane trainer | 1944 | Japan | |
| Latécoère 290 | 1934 | France | |
| Latécoère 298 | 1938 | France | France, Germany |
| Levasseur PL.15 | 1933 | France | |
| Lioré et Olivier LeO H-43 | 1940 | France | |
| Lublin R.VIII floatplane trainer | 1928 | Poland | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.8 floatplane trainer | 1924 | Norway | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.10 | 1929 | Norway | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.11 floatplane trainer | 1932 | Norway | Norway, Finland |
| Mitsubishi F1M | 1941 | Japan | |
| Nakajima A6M2-N | 1942 | Japan | |
| Nakajima E8N | 1935 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Northrop Delta | 1936 | US | Canada |
| Northrop N-3PB | 1940 | US | Norway |
| Rogožarski SIM-XII-H | 1938 | Yugoslavia | |
| Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H | 1939 | Yugoslavia | |
| VL Sääski floatplane trainer | 1928 | Finland | |
| Vought OS2U Kingfisher | 1938 | US | US, Australia, UK |
| Watanabe E9W[notes 21] | 1938 | Japan | |
| Watanabe K6W/WS-103 | 1938 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Yokosuka E14Y[notes 21] | 1941 | Japan | |
| Yokosuka K4Y | 1933 | Japan |
Transport aircraft
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronca L-3 | 1941 | US | US, Brazil |
| Airspeed Envoy | 1934 | UK | UK, Finland, South Africa |
| Airspeed Horsa glider | 1942 | UK | UK, US |
| Antonov A-7 glider | 1942 | USSR | |
| Arado Ar 232 | 1943 | Germany | |
| Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle | 1940 | UK | UK, USSR |
| AVIA FL.3 | 1939 | Italy | Italy, Croatia, Germany |
| Avro 652 | 1935 | UK | |
| Avro Lancastrian | 1945 | UK | |
| Avro York | 1944 | UK | |
| Barkley-Grow T8P-1 | 1937 | US | Canada |
| Beechcraft 17 Staggerwing/UC-43 Traveler | 1933 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, UK |
| Beechcraft Model 18/C-45/JRB/Expeditor[notes 23] | 1937 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, France, Philippines, UK |
| Beneš-Mráz Be-555 Super Bibi | 1936 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Bloch MB.81 ambulance aircraft | 1935 | France | |
| Bloch MB.120 mailplane | 1935 | France | |
| Boeing 247/UC-73 | 1933 | US | US, Canada, UK |
| Boeing 307/UC-75 | 1940 | US | |
| Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress | 1943 | US | |
| Breda Ba.44 | 1934 | Italy | |
| Bristol Bombay bomber/transport | 1939 | UK | |
| Bristol Buckingham | 1943 | UK | |
| Budd RB Conestoga | 1944 | US | |
| CAP CAP-4 Paulista | 1935 | Brazil | |
| Caproni Ca.111 | 1932 | Italy | |
| Caproni Ca.133 | 1935 | Italy | |
| Caproni Ca.148 | 1938 | Italy | Italy, Germany |
| Caproni Ca.164 | 1938 | Italy | Italy, France |
| Caudron C.272 | 1931 | France | |
| Caudron C.280/C.400/C.410 | 1932 | France | |
| Caudron C.440 Goéland | 1934 | France | France, Belgium, Germany |
| Caudron C.480 Frégate | 1935 | France | |
| Caudron C.600 Aiglon | 1935 | France | |
| Caudron C.635 Simoun | 1935 | France | |
| Cessna 165 | 1935 | US | US, Australia, Finland |
| Consolidated C-87/C-109 Liberator Express | 1942 | US | US, UK |
| Curtiss-Wright C-46/R5C Commando | 1941 | US | |
| de Havilland Australia DHA-G glider | 1942 | Australia | |
| de Havilland DH.50 | 1923 | UK | Australia |
| de Havilland DH.60 Moth | UK | UK, Belgium, China, Egypt, Iraq, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa | |
| de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth | 1930 | UK | UK, Canada, Iraq, New Zealand |
| de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth | 1932 | UK | UK, Australia, New Zealand |
| de Havilland DH.84 Dragon | 1934 | UK | UK, Iraq, New Zealand, Lithuania |
| de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth | 1933 | UK | UK, Australia, Belgium |
| de Havilland D.H.86 Express | 1934 | UK | UK, Australia, New Zealand |
| de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide/Dominie | 1934 | UK | UK, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Iraq, New Zealand, US |
| de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly | 1936 | UK | UK, Australia, Denmark, Iraq |
| de Havilland DH.91 Albatross | 1938 | UK | |
| de Havilland DH.94 Moth Minor | 1937 | UK | UK, Australia, New Zealand |
| de Havilland DH.95 Flamingo | 1939 | UK | |
| DFS 230 glider | 1938 | Germany | |
| Douglas C-47/R4D Skytrain/Dakota | 1941 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, France, India, New Zealand, UK |
| Douglas C-54/R5D Skymaster | 1942 | US | US, UK |
| Douglas DC-2/C-32 | 1934 | US | US, Australia, Finland, Japan, UK |
| Douglas DC-3 | 1935 | US | Canada, US, Japan |
| Douglas DC-5/C-110/R3D | 1940 | US | US, Australia, Japan |
| Fairchild 24 Argus/UC-61 Forwarder | 1932 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Thailand, UK |
| Fairchild 71 | 1926 | US | Canada |
| Fairchild 82 | 1935 | Canada | Argentina |
| Fairchild C-82 Packet | 1944 | US | |
| Fairchild FC-2/51 | 1926 | US | Canada |
| Fairchild Super 71 | 1934 | Canada | |
| Farman F.190 | 1928 | France | |
| Farman F.402 | 1934 | France | |
| Farman F.224 | 1932 | France | |
| Fiat G.12 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Fiat G.18 | 1936 | Italy | |
| Fieseler Fi 156 Storch | 1936 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Yugoslavia |
| Fleet Freighter | 1938 | Canada | |
| Fokker F.VII | 1925 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Finland, Poland |
| Fokker Super Universal/Nakajima Ki-6/C2N | 1931 | US | Japan, Manchukuo |
| Ford Trimotor | 1926 | US | Australia |
| Foster Wikner Wicko | 1936 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| General Aircraft Hamilcar glider | 1942 | UK | |
| Gotha Go 242 glider | 1941 | Germany | |
| Gotha Go 244 | 1942 | Germany | |
| Gribovski G-11 glider | 1941 | USSR | |
| Handley Page Halifax/Halton[notes 24] | 1940 | UK | |
| Handley Page Harrow bomber/transport[notes 25] | 1937 | UK | UK, Canada |
| Hanriot H.182 | 1934 | France | |
| Harlow C-80/PJC-2 | 1937 | US | US, UK |
| Heinkel He 116 mailplane | 1938 | Germany | |
| Howard UC-70/GH Nightingale | 1939 | US | |
| IMAM Ro.63 | 1940 | Italy | |
| Interstate Cadet/L-6 Grasshopper | 1942 | US | US, Norway |
| Junkers F 13[notes 9] | 1920 | Germany | Finland |
| Junkers G 24 | 1925 | Germany | Greece |
| Junkers G 31 | 1926 | Germany | Germany, Australia |
| Junkers Ju 52 | 1932 | Germany | Germany, Greece, Bulgaria, Norway |
| Junkers Ju 90 | 1938 | Germany | |
| Junkers Ju 252 | 1942 | Germany | |
| Junkers Ju 290 | 1942 | Germany | |
| Junkers Ju 352 | 1944 | Germany | |
| Junkers W 34 & K 43 | 1926 | Germany | Germany, Australia, Finland, Norway |
| Kawanishi H6K2-L/H6K-3/H6K4-L | 1936 | Japan | |
| Kawanishi H8K2-L | 1941 | Japan | |
| Kawasaki Ki-56 | 1940 | Japan | |
| Kokusai Ki-59 | 1941 | Japan | |
| Kokusai Ki-76 | 1942 | Japan | |
| Kokusai Ku-8 glider | 1941 | Japan | |
| Kolesnikov-Tsibin KC-20 glider | 1942 | USSR | |
| Laville PS-89 | 1935 | USSR | |
| Lisunov Li-2 | 1939 | USSR | |
| Lockheed UC-101 Vega | 1928 | US | US, Australia |
| Lockheed 9/UC-85 Orion | 1931 | US | |
| Lockheed 10/C-36 Electra | 1935 | US | US, Canada, UK |
| Lockheed 12/UC-40 Electra Junior | 1936 | US | US, Canada, Netherlands, UK |
| Lockheed 14 Super Electra | 1937 | US | US, UK, Canada, Japan, South Africa |
| Lockheed 18/C-60 Lodestar | 1937 | US | US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK |
| Lockheed C-69 Constellation | 1943 | US | |
| Lublin R-XVI | 1932 | Poland | |
| Maeda Ku-1 glider | 1941 | Japan | |
| Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun | 1934 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Romania, UK, Yugoslavia |
| Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant glider | 1941 | Germany | |
| Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant | 1943 | Germany | |
| Miles Falcon | 1934 | UK | UK, Australia |
| Miles Mentor | 1938 | UK | |
| Miles Merlin | 1935 | UK | UK, Australia |
| Miles Messenger | 1942 | UK | |
| Miles Monarch | 1938 | UK | |
| Miles Whitney Straight | 1936 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Mitsubishi G6M1-L2 | 1941 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi K3M | 1931 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi Ki-20 | 1932 | Germany, Japan | Japan |
| Mitsubishi Ki-57/L4M | 1942 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi L3Y | 1935 | Japan | |
| Moskalyev SAM-5 | 1935 | USSR | |
| Nakajima Ki-4[notes 5] | 1934 | Japan | Japan, Manchukuo |
| Nakajima Ki-34/L1N1 | 1936 | Japan | |
| Noorduyn Norseman | 1935 | Canada | Canada, Australia, Brazil, US |
| Northrop Delta[notes 8] | 1933 | US | US, Canada, Australia |
| Percival Gull | 1932 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Percival Petrel | 1937 | UK | |
| Percival Proctor | 1939 | UK | |
| Percival Vega Gull | 1935 | UK | UK, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand |
| Piper J-3, L-4, O-59 and NE-1 | 1938 | US | US, Brazil |
| Piper J-4 | 1938 | US | US, UK |
| Polikarpov U-2 | 1927 | USSR | |
| Porterfield 35 | 1935 | US | US, New Zealand |
| Potez 29 | 1927 | France | |
| Potez 56 | 1934 | France | |
| Potez 58 | 1934 | France | |
| Potez 62 | 1935 | France | |
| Potez 650 | 1937 | France | |
| Putilov Stal-3 | 1933 | USSR | |
| PWS-24bis | 1933 | Poland | Poland, Romania |
| Rearwin Sportster | 1935 | US | US, New Zealand, Thailand |
| RWD 10 | 1935 | Poland | |
| RWD 13 | 1935 | Poland | Poland, Romania |
| RWD 15 | 1937 | Poland | Romania |
| SAI KZ II | 1937 | Denmark | |
| SAIMAN 202 | 1939 | Italy | Italy, Croatia |
| Savoia-Marchetti S.73 | 1934 | Italy | Italy, Belgium, UK |
| Savoia-Marchetti S.74 | 1934 | Italy | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 | 1938 | Italy | Italy, Hungary, Germany |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 | 1940 | Italy | Italy, Germany |
| Savoia-Marchetti S.83 | 1938 | Italy | |
| SFCA Taupin | 1936 | France | |
| Shcherbakov Shche-2 | 1943 | USSR | |
| Short Stirling[notes 24][notes 26] | 1943 | UK | |
| Showa/Nakajima L2D | 1939 | Japan | |
| Siebel Si 204 | 1942 | Germany | |
| Slingsby Hengist glider | 1942 | UK | |
| Spartan UC-71 Executive | 1936 | US | US, UK, Canada, China |
| Stinson L-1/O-49 Vigilant | 1941 | US | US, UK |
| Stinson L-5 Sentinel | 1942 | US | US, UK |
| Stinson Reliant | 1933 | US | US, Australia, Norway, Philippines, UK |
| Stinson Voyager | 1939 | US | US, Canada, France |
| Tachikawa Ki-54 | 1940 | Japan | |
| Taylorcraft Auster | 1942 | UK | UK, Australia |
| Taylorcraft L-2 | 1941 | US | |
| Tugan Gannet | 1935 | Australia | |
| Tupolev ANT-9 | 1931 | USSR | |
| Tupolev PS-35 | 1937 | USSR | |
| Vickers Type 264 Valentia bomber/transport | 1934 | UK | |
| Waco CG-3 glider | 1942 | US | |
| Waco CG-4/Hadrian glider | 1942 | US | US, UK |
| Waco CG-13 glider | 1945 | US | |
| Waco CG-15 glider | 1943 | US | |
| Waco UC-72 (and other Waco variants) | 1930s | US | US, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Norway, UK |
| Yakovlev Yak-6 | 1942 | USSR | |
| Yokosuka L3Y | 1935 | Japan |
Trainers
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
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFS SG 38 Schulgleiter primary training glider | 1938 | Germany | Germany, Japan and many others |
| General Aircraft Hotspur assault glider trainer | 1940 | UK | |
| Laister-Kauffman TG-4 | 1941 | US | |
| Slingsby Kirby Cadet | 1935 | UK | |
| Schweizer TG-3 | 1942 | US | |
| Schweizer TG-2/LNS-1 | 1938 | US | |
| Schneider Grunau Baby | 1931 | Germany | Germany, Denmark |
Primary trainers
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANBO IV | 1934 | Lithuania | |
| Avro 504 | 1913 | UK | Greece, Thailand |
| Avro 626 | 1930 | UK | UK, Belgium, Canada, Greece, New Zealand |
| Avro 643 Cadet | 1932 | UK | UK, Australia, China |
| Avro Tutor | 1933 | UK | UK, Canada, Denmark |
| Beneš-Mráz Be-50 Beta-Minor | 1935 | Czechoslovakia | Germany, Slovakia |
| Blackburn B-2 | 1932 | UK | |
| Boeing-Stearman Model 73/75/PT-13/PT-17/PT-18/NS/N2S Kaydet | 1934 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, China, Philippines |
| Breda Ba.25 & Ba.28 | 1932 | Italy | Italy, Hungary, China, Norway |
| Bücker Bü 131, Ki-86, K9W1 | 1935 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia and others |
| Bücker Bü 181 | 1940 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria |
| CAC Wackett | 1941 | Australia | |
| Caproni Ca.164 | 1938 | Italy | Italy, France |
| Consolidated PT-1 Trusty | 1921 | US | US, Philippines, Thailand |
| DAR 9 Siniger | 1940 | Bulgaria | Bulgaria, Yugoslavia |
| de Havilland DH.60 Moth | 1925 | UK | UK, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Iraq, New Zealand, Norway |
| de Havilland Tiger Moth[notes 27] | 1932 | UK | UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, India, Iraq, New Zealand, Norway |
| Fairchild PT-19/23/26 Cornell | 1940 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, Norway |
| Fleet Fawn | 1931 | Canada | Canada, Brazil |
| Fleet 10/16/Finch | 1939 | Canada | Canada, China, Brazil, Romania |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 44 | 1932 | Germany | Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia |
| Fokker S.IV | 1924 | Netherlands | |
| Fokker S.IX | 1937 | Netherlands | |
| Gotha Go 145 | 1935 | Germany | |
| Hanriot H.43 | 1928 | France | |
| Hanriot H.16 | 1930 | France | |
| Heinkel He 72 | 1933 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Kawasaki Army Type 92 Fighter | 1930 | Japan | Japan |
| Klemm Kl 25 | 1928 | Germany | Germany, Norway |
| Koolhoven F.K.51 | 1935 | Netherlands | |
| Letov Š-218 | 1930 | Czechoslovakia | Finland |
| Meyers OTW CPTP trainer | 1936 | US | |
| Miles Hawk | 1933 | UK | UK, New Zealand |
| Miles Magister | 1937 | UK | UK, Norway |
| Morane-Saulnier MS.230 | 1930 | France | France, Germany, Greece |
| Morane-Saulnier MS.315 | 1932 | France | |
| Mráz Zobor I[3] | 1942 | Slovakia | |
| Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Canary | 1936 | US | |
| North American NA-16 | 1935 | US | China, Brazil |
| North American BT-9/BT-14/NJ | 1936 | US | |
| Piper J-4 | 1938 | US | |
| Ryan PT-16/20/21/22 Recruit | 1934 | US | US, Australia, Netherlands |
| RWD 8 | 1934 | Poland | Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia |
| RWD 17 | 1938 | Poland | Poland, Romania |
| Polikarpov Po-2 | 1929 | USSR | |
| Praga E-39 | 1931 | Czechoslovakia | |
| PWS-16 | 1933 | Poland | Spain |
| Repülőgépgyár Levente II | 1943 | Hungary | |
| SAIMAN 200 | 1940 | Italy | Italy, Croatia, Germany |
| Spartan NP-1 | 1940 | US | |
| Tachikawa Ki-9 | 1935 | Japan | |
| Tachikawa Ki-17 | 1936 | Japan | |
| Timm N2T Tutor | 1943 | US | |
| VL Sääski | 1928 | Finland | |
| VL Viima | 1935 | Finland | |
| Vultee BT-13/15/SNV Valiant | 1939 | US | US, Brazil |
| Waco UPF-7/PT-14 CPTP trainer | 1930 | US | |
| Weiss WM-10 Ölyv | 1933 | Hungary | |
| Yokosuka K5Y | 1934 | Japan | |
| Yakovlev UT-2 | 1937 | USSR | |
| Zlín Z-XII | 1935 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Germany, Slovakia, UK, Yugoslavia |
Advanced trainers
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ambrosini S.7 | 1943 | Italy | |
| Ambrosini SAI.10 Grifone | 1940 | Italy | |
| Arado Ar 65[notes 5] | 1931 | Germany | |
| Arado Ar 66 | 1933 | Germany | |
| Arado Ar 68[notes 5] | 1936 | Germany | |
| Arado Ar 96 | 1939 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania |
| Avia B.122 | 1934 | Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, USSR |
| Bücker Bü 133 | 1938 | Germany | Germany, Yugoslavia, Lithuania |
| CAC Wirraway | 1939 | Australia | |
| Kaproni Bulgarski KB-2/3/4/5 | 1931 | Bulgaria | |
| Caudron C.690 | 1939 | France | |
| Curtiss-Wright CW-22/SNC Falcon | 1942 | US | US, Netherlands |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 56 | 1935 | Germany | |
| Fokker D.XVII[notes 5] | 1932 | Netherlands | |
| Hawker Hart Trainer | 1930 | UK | |
| I.Ae. 22 DL | 1944 | Argentina | |
| IMAM Ro.41 | 1935 | Italy | |
| Koolhoven F.K.56 | 1938 | Netherlands | Netherlands, Belgium |
| Messerschmitt Bf 108 | 1935 | Germany | Germany, Bulgaria, and many others |
| Miles Master | 1939 | UK | |
| Mitsubishi A5M4-K[notes 28] | 1936 | Japan | |
| Mitsubishi A6M2-K Zero[notes 28] | 1940 | Japan | |
| Morane-Saulnier M.S.225[notes 5] | 1933 | France | |
| Muniz M-9 | 1937 | Brazil | |
| Mansyu Ki-79 | 1937 | Japan | |
| Nardi FN.305 | 1938 | Italy | Italy, Romania, Hungary, France |
| Nardi FN.316 | 1942 | Italy | Italy, Germany |
| Nieuport-Delage NiD 62[notes 5] | 1931 | France | |
| North American NA-16 | 1935 | US | France, Germany |
| North American NA-64 Yale | 1940 | US | Canada, France, Germany |
| North American P-64[notes 29] | 1940 | US | |
| North American T-6/SNJ Texan/Harvard[notes 8] | 1935 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, India, New Zealand, Norway, UK and others |
| Orlogsværftet O-Maskinen | 1926 | Denmark | |
| Praga BH-41 | 1931 | Czechoslovakia | |
| PTO-4 | 1938 | Estonia | Estonia, Germany |
| PWS-26 | 1937 | Poland | Poland, Romania, Germany |
| Rogožarski PVT | 1934 | Yugoslavia | |
| Rogožarski R-100 | 1939 | Yugoslavia | |
| Rogožarski SIM-Х | 1937 | Yugoslavia | |
| Romano R.82 | 1937 | France | |
| SET 7 | 1931 | Romania | |
| Stampe et Vertongen SV.5 Tornado | 1933 | Belgium | Belgium, Latvia |
| Tachikawa Ki-55 | 1940 | Japan | Japan, Thailand |
| Svenska Aero Jaktfalken | 1930 | Sweden | Finland |
| THK-2 | 1944 | Turkey | |
| VEF I-12 | 1935 | Latvia | |
| VL Tuisku | 1935 | Finland | |
| VL Pyry | 1941 | Finland | |
| Yakovlev UT-1 | 1936 | USSR | USSR, China |
| Zmaj Fizir FN | 1931 | Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia, Croatia, Italy |
| Zmaj Fizir FP-2 | 1936 | Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia, Croatia, Italy |
Bomber trainers, target tugs and misc. trainers
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airspeed Oxford | 1937 | UK | UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway |
| Avro Anson[notes 8] | 1936 | UK Canada | UK, Canada, France, US |
| Blackburn Botha bomber trainer & target tug | 1939 | UK | |
| Bristol Buckmaster | 1945 | UK | |
| Beechcraft AT-10 Wichita | 1942 | US | |
| Cessna AT-8/AT-17/UC-78/JRC Bobcat/Crane | 1939 | US | US, Brazil, Canada, France |
| Consolidated AT-22/TB-24 Liberator | 1943 | US | |
| CANT Z.1015 torpedo bomber trainer | 1939 | Italy | |
| Curtiss AT-9 | 1941 | US | |
| De Havilland Dominie radio trainer | 1940 | UK | |
| Fairchild AT-21 Gunner | 1943 | US | |
| Fairey IIIF target tug | 1926 | UK | |
| Fairey Battle[notes 5] | 1939 | UK | Australia, Canada, South Africa, UK |
| Fairey Gordon[notes 5] | 1931 | UK | Australia, UK |
| Fleet Fort intermediate trainer/radio trainer | 1941 | Canada | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 58 | 1937 | Germany | Germany, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania |
| Hanriot H.232 | 1940 | France | France, Finland |
| Hawker Henley target tug | 1938 | UK | |
| Kyushu K10W intermediate trainer/target tug | 1943 | Japan | |
| Kyushu K11W bomber crew trainer | 1943 | Japan | |
| Lockheed AT-18 Hudson | 1938 | US | US |
| LWS-6/PZL.30 Żubr[notes 5] | 1938 | Poland | |
| Martin AT-23/TB-26 | 1940 | US | |
| Miles Martinet target tug | 1942 | UK | |
| Miles Mentor radio trainer | 1938 | UK | |
| Mitsubishi K7M | 1931 | Japan | |
| Nardi FN.315 intermediate trainer | 1938 | Italy | |
| North American AT-24/TB-25 Mitchell | 1941 | US | |
| Percival Proctor radio trainer | 1939 | UK | |
| Potez 56 crew trainer/target tug | 1936 | France | |
| Stinson Reliant | 1933 | US | US, UK |
| Tachikawa Ki-54 | 1941 | Japan | |
| Westland Wallace[notes 5] | 1933 | UK | |
| Yokosuka K4Y floatplane trainer | 1933 | Japan |
Rotorcraft
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cierva C.30 autogyro | 1934 | UK | UK, Belgium, France, Germany |
| Flettner Fl 282 helicopter | 1942 | Germany | |
| Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 autogyro kite[notes 21] | 1943 | Germany | |
| Kamov A-7 autogyro | 1934 | USSR | |
| Kayaba Ka-1 and Ka-2 autogyro | 1941 | Japan | |
| Pitcairn PA-39 autogyro[notes 30] | 1940 | US | UK |
| Sikorsky R-4 helicopter | 1944 | US | US, UK |
| Sikorsky R-6 helicopter | 1945 | US | US, UK |
Lighter than air
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodyear G class blimp patrol blimp | 1935 | US | |
| Goodyear K class blimp patrol blimp | 1938 | US | |
| Goodyear L class blimp training blimp | 1938 | US | |
| Goodyear M class blimp patrol blimp | 1944 | US |
Rockets and drones
| Name of aircraft | Year in service |
Country of origin | Operator(s) if different from country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronautica Lombarda A.R. radio controlled flying bomb | 1943 | Italy | |
| Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp target drone | 1937 | UK | |
| Culver PQ-8 target drone | 1940 | US | |
| Culver PQ-14 Cadet target drone | 1942 | US | |
| de Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee target drone | 1935 | UK | |
| Fieseler Fi 103R manned missile | 1944 | Germany | |
| Henschel Hs 293 guided missile | 1943 | Germany | |
| Interstate TDR assault drone | 1944 | US | |
| McDonnell TD2D Katydid target drone | 1942 | US | |
| Naval Aircraft Factory TDN assault drone | 1942 | US | |
| Naval Aircraft Modification Unit KDN Gorgon target drone | 1945 | US | |
| Radioplane OQ-2 target drone | 1939 | US | |
| V-1 Flying Bomb surface to surface cruise missile | 1943 | Germany | |
| V-2 rocket surface to surface ballistic missile | 1944 | Germany | |
| Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka manned missile | 1945 | Japan |
Prototypes
Prototypes were aircraft that were intended to enter service but did not, either due to changing requirements, failing to meet requirements, other problems, or the end of the 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
Single-engined, Single-seat fighters, fighter-bombers and jet fighters
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronautica Umbra Trojani AUT.18 | 1939 | Italy | |
| Ambrosini SS.4 | 1940 | Italy | canard pusher-engine fighter |
| Ambrosini SAI.107 | 1940 | Italy | lightweight fighter |
| Ambrosini SAI.403 | 1943 | Italy | lightweight fighter |
| Avia B.35 | 1938 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Aviotehas PN-3 | 1939 | Estonia | |
| Bell XP-77 | 1944 | US | lightweight fighter |
| Bell XP-83 | 1945 | US | jet fighter |
| Bachem Ba 349 Natter | 1945 | Germany | vertical launch point defence rocket interceptor |
| Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 | 1942 | USSR | rocket fighter |
| Blohm & Voss BV 155 | 1944 | Germany | |
| Borovkov-Florov I-207 | 1937 | USSR | cantilever-wing biplane fighter |
| Canadian Car and Foundry FDB-1 | 1938 | Canada | biplane fighter |
| Caproni Vizzola F.4 | 1940 | Italy | |
| Caproni Vizzola F.5 | 1939 | Italy | |
| Caproni Vizzola F.6 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Chu X-P0 | 1943 | China | |
| Curtiss XF14C | 1944 | US | naval fighter with liquid-cooled engine |
| Curtiss XF15C | 1945 | US | inspired by the FR-1 Fireball |
| Curtiss YP-37 | 1937 | US | |
| Curtiss XP-42 | 1939 | US | |
| Curtiss XP-46 | 1941 | US | |
| Curtiss XP-53/YP-60 | 1942 | US | |
| Curtiss XP-62 | 1943 | US | |
| Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender | 1943 | US | canard pusher-engine fighter |
| de Havilland Vampire | 1943 | UK | jet fighter entered service post-war |
| Fokker D.XXIII | 1939 | Netherlands | push/pull twin-engine fighter |
| Fiat G.56 | 1944 | Italy | |
| Gloster F.5/34 | 1937 | UK | |
| Horten Ho 229 | 1944 | Germany | jet flying wing fighter |
| Hawker Tornado | 1939 | UK | |
| Heinkel He 280 | 1940 | Germany | |
| Henschel Hs 132 | 1945 | Germany | prone pilot jet fighter/dive bomber |
| Kawasaki Ki-60 | 1941 | Japan | |
| Koolhoven F.K.55 | 1938 | Netherlands | buried-engine fighter |
| Kyushu J7W | 1945 | Japan | canard pusher-engine fighter |
| Macchi C.201 | 1940 | Italy | |
| Martin-Baker MB 2 | 1938 | UK | |
| Martin-Baker MB 3 | 1942 | UK | |
| Martin-Baker MB 5 | 1944 | UK | |
| McDonnell FD Phantom | 1945 | US | naval jet fighter |
| Messerschmitt Me 209 | 1938 | Germany | racer/fighter |
| Messerschmitt Me 309 | 1942 | Germany | |
| Messerschmitt Me 328 | 1944 | Germany | pulse jet fighter |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 | 1945 | USSR | mixed-power fighter |
| Miles M.20 | 1940 | UK | emergency fighter |
| Mitsubishi A7M | 1944 | Japan | improved A6M |
| Mitsubishi J8M | 1944 | Japan | rocket-propelled interceptor |
| Nakajima Ki-12 | 1936 | Japan | V12 fighter |
| Nakajima Kikka | 1945 | Japan | jet fighter |
| North American P-82 Twin Mustang | 1945 | US | twin fuselage fighter too late for war |
| Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet | 1943 | US | tailless pusher fighter |
| Piaggio P.119 | 1942 | Italy | buried radial-engine fighter |
| PZL.50 Jastrząb | 1939 | Poland | |
| Renard R-36/R-37/R-38 | 1938 | Belgium | |
| SNCAO 200 | 1939 | France | |
| Tachikawa Ki-106 | 1945 | Japan | |
| VEF I-16 | 1939 | Latvia | lightweight fighter |
| VL Humu | 1944 | Finland | |
| VL Pyörremyrsky | 1945 | Finland | |
| Polikarpov I-185 | 1941 | USSR | |
| Polikarpov ITP | 1942 | USSR | |
| Reggiane Re.2006 | n/a | Italy | completed but not flown |
| Sukhoi Su-5 | 1945 | USSR | mixed-power fighter |
| Sukhoi Su-7 | 1944 | USSR | high-altitude interceptor |
Heavy fighters (multi-engined or multi-seat) and night fighters
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aichi S1A | 1945 | Japan | night fighter |
| Arado Ar 240 | 1940 | Germany | |
| Arsenal-Delanne 10 | 1941 | France | tandem-wing two-seat fighter |
| Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress | 1943 | US | large escort fighter |
| Boeing XF8B | 1944 | US | |
| Boulton Paul P.92 | 1937 | UK | |
| SABCA S.47 | 1939 | Italy | for Belgium |
| Consolidated XB-41 Liberator | 1942 | US | large escort fighter |
| Consolidated Vultee XP-81 | 1945 | US | |
| De Havilland Hornet | 1944 | UK | |
| Fisher P-75 Eagle | 1943 | US | |
| Gloster F.9/37 | 1939 | UK | |
| Grumman XF5F Skyrocket | 1940 | US | |
| Grumman XP-50 | 1941 | US | |
| Hawker Hotspur | 1938 | UK | |
| Hughes D-2 | 1943 | US | |
| IMAM Ro.58 | 1942 | Italy | |
| Kawasaki Ki-64 | 1943 | Japan | |
| Kawasaki Ki-96 | 1943 | Japan | |
| Lockheed XP-49 | 1942 | US | |
| Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning | 1944 | US | |
| McDonnell XP-67 Bat | 1944 | US | |
| Moskalyev SAM-13 | 1940 | USSR | |
| Nikitin IS-1 | 1941 | USSR | |
| Polikarpov TIS | 1941 | USSR | |
| PZL.38 Wilk | 1938 | Poland | |
| Republic XP-69/XP-72 | 1943 | US | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.88, SM.91 and SM.92 | 1939 | Italy | heavy fighters |
| SNCASE SE.100 | 1939 | France | |
| Sukhoi Su-6 | 1941 | USSR | |
| Vickers Type 432 | 1942 | UK | |
| Vultee XP-54 | 1943 | US |
Bomber and attack aircraft prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aero A.300 | 1938 | Czechoslovakia | |
| ANBO VIII | 1939 | Lithuania | |
| Avia B-158 | 1938 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Avro Lincoln | 1945 | UK | too late for war |
| Beechcraft XA-38 Grizzly | 1944 | US | |
| Blackburn Firebrand | 1945 | UK | too late for war |
| Bloch MB.162 | 1940 | France | |
| Boeing XB-15 | 1937 | US | |
| Boeing XB-38 Flying Fortress | 1943 | US | |
| Boeing XB-39 Superfortress | 1944 | US | |
| Boeing XB-44 Superfortress | 1945 | US | |
| Breguet 462 | 1936 | France | |
| Breda Ba.75 | 1939 | Italy | |
| Breda Ba.201 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Brewster XA-32 | 1943 | US | |
| Bristol Brigand | 1944 | UK | too late for war |
| CAC Woomera | 1941 | Australia | |
| CANSA FC.12 | 1940 | Italy | |
| CANSA FC.20 | 1941 | Italy | |
| CANT Z.1011 | 1936 | Italy | |
| CANT Z.1018 | 1939 | Italy | |
| Caproni Ca.355 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Caudron C.670 Typhon | 1935 | France | light bomber (derived from racer) |
| DAR 10 | 1939 | Bulgaria | |
| Dornier Do 19 | 1936 | Germany | cancelled heavy bomber, possibly used as transport |
| Dornier Do 317 | 1943 | Germany | heavy bomber |
| Douglas AD Skyraider | 1945 | US | torpedo/dive bomber |
| Douglas BTD Destroyer | 1944 | US | |
| Douglas XB-19 | 1941 | US | |
| Douglas XA-42 Mixmaster | 1944 | US | buried engines driving pusher propeller in tail |
| Douglas XTB2D Skypirate | 1945 | US | intended successor of the Douglas Devastator |
| Fairey Spearfish | 1945 | UK | |
| Fiat AS.14 | 1943 | Italy | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 191 | 1942 | Germany | heavy bomber |
| Fokker T.IX | 1939 | Netherlands | |
| Heinkel He 119 | 1937 | Germany | unarmed reconnaissance bomber |
| Heinkel He 274 | 1945 | Germany | high-altitude bomber |
| Henschel Hs 130 | 1940 | Germany | high-altitude bomber |
| IAR 47 | 1942 | Romania | |
| Junkers Ju 287 | 1944 | Germany | |
| Junkers Ju 288 | 1940 | Germany | bomber |
| Kaiser-Fleetwings XBTK | 1945 | US | dive and torpedo bomber |
| Latécoère 299 | 1939 | France | carrier-based Latécoère 298 |
| Letov Š-50 | 1938 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Lockheed XP2V-1 Neptune | 1945 | US | anti-submarine aircraft |
| Messerschmitt Me 261 | 1940 | Germany | maritime reconnaissance |
| Messerschmitt Me 264 | 1942 | Germany | 4-engine Amerika bomber |
| Nakajima G5N | 1941 | Japan | |
| Nakajima G8N | 1944 | Japan | |
| North American XB-28 | 1942 | US | |
| Piaggio P.50 | 1937 | Italy | |
| Polikarpov NB | 1944 | USSR | |
| PZL.42 | 1936 | Poland | |
| PZL.46 Sum | 1939 | Poland | |
| Reggiane Re.2003 | 1941 | Italy | |
| Rikugun Ki-93 | 1945 | Japan | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.86 | 1940 | Italy | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.89 | 1942 | Italy | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.93 | 1944 | Italy | |
| SNCAO CAO.600 | 1940 | France | |
| Stearman XA-21 | 1938 | US | |
| Supermarine Type 322 | 1943 | UK | |
| Tachikawa Ki-74 | 1944 | Japan | |
| Vickers Windsor | 1943 | UK | |
| Vultee XA-41 | 1944 | US | |
| Zmaj R-1 | 1940 | Yugoslavia |
Transport prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blohm & Voss BV 144 | 1944 | Germany | built in France |
| Boeing 367 YC-97 Stratofreighter | 1944 | US | based on B-29, entered service in 1947 |
| Burnelli UB-14/Cunliffe-Owen Clyde Clipper | 1939 | US | prototype used by UK and France |
| Consolidated R2Y | 1944 | US | PB4Y-2 with new fuselage |
| Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan | 1943 | US | wood transport with nose doors |
| Junkers Ju 390 | 1943 | Germany | heavy transport and maritime patrol |
| Kobeseiko Te-Gō | 1943 | Japan | STOL spotter/liaison |
| Kokusai Ki-105 | 1945 | Japan | fuel transport |
| Lockheed L-049 Constellation | 1944 | US | civil version of the C-69 |
| LWS-2 | 1937 | Poland | medical transport |
| Martin 156 | 1940 | USSR | Russian-built seaplane airliner |
| Praga E-210 | 1937 | Czechoslovakia | |
| Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 | 1943 | Italy | |
| SNCASE Languedoc | 1939 | France | |
| Stout XC-107 | 1941 | US | flying car evaluated by USAAF |
| Tachikawa Ki-77 | 1942 | Japan | very long-range transport |
| Tachikawa Ki-92 | 1945 | Japan | troop/cargo transport |
Glider prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronautica Lombarda AL-12P | 1943 | Italy | |
| Allied Aviation XLRA | 1943 | US | seaplane glider |
| AVIA LM.02 | 1942 | Italy | bomber glider |
| Baynes Bat | 1943 | UK | experimental tailless glider |
| Blohm & Voss BV 40 | 1944 | Germany | interceptor glider |
| Bristol XLRQ | 1943 | US | seaplane glider |
| CAT TM-2 | 1943 | Italy | |
| Chase YCG-14 | 1945 | US | |
| Cornelius XFG-1 | 1944 | US | |
| DFS 331 | 1942 | Germany | |
| Frankfort TG-1 | 1940 | US | |
| General Airborne Transport XCG-16 | 1943 | US | |
| Gotha Ka 430 | 1943 | Germany | |
| Horten H.IV | 1941 | Germany | flying wing glider |
| Horten H.V | 1937 | Germany | |
| I.Ae. 25 Mañque | 1945 | Argentina | |
| Junkers Ju 322 | 1941 | Germany | |
| Kokusai Ku-7 | 1942 | Japan | |
| Laister-Kauffman XCG-10 | 1942 | US | |
| Maeda Ku-6 | 1945 | Japan | |
| Pratt-Read TG-32 | 1940 | US | |
| Polikarpov BDP | 1943 | USSR | |
| Slingsby T.20 | 1944 | UK | |
| St.Louis XCG-5 | 1942 | US | |
| Antonov A-40 | 1942 | USSR | |
| Yokosuka MXY5 | 1942 | Japan |
Trainer prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airspeed Cambridge | 1941 | UK | advanced trainer |
| AEKKEA-Raab R-29 | 1936 | Greece | Fighter-trainer (unknown number - possibly 30 - produced for Spain, missing engines and machine guns) |
| Boeing XAT-15 | 1942 | US | |
| CAT QR.14 | 1943 | Italy | |
| de Havilland Don | 1938 | UK | |
| Fleetwings BT-12 | 1942 | US | |
| General Aircraft Cagnet | 1939 | UK | |
| General Aircraft Cygnet | 1937 | UK | |
| General Aircraft Owlet | 1942 | UK | |
| Heston T.1/37 | 1938 | UK | |
| Ikarus Aero 2 | 1940 | Yugoslavia | |
| Ikarus MM-2 | 1941 | Yugoslavia | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk/Høver M.F.12 | 1939 | Norway | floatplane trainer |
| Miles M.15 | 1938 | UK | |
| Miles Kestrel | 1937 | UK | |
| Miles Mercury | 1941 | UK | |
| Miles Monitor | 1944 | UK | target tug |
| Parnall 382 | 1939 | UK | |
| PWS-33 Wyżeł | 1938 | Poland | twin-engine trainer |
| PWS-35 Ogar | 1938 | Poland | |
| Reid and Sigrist R.S.1 | 1939 | UK | twin-engine trainer |
| Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 | 1945 | UK | twin-engine trainer |
| Rogozarski SIM-XI | 1938 | Yugoslavia | |
| St. Louis YPT-15 | 1940 | US | primary trainer |
| Stampe SV.4 | 1933 | Belgium | biplane trainer, flown before war, not used until after |
| Stearman XBT-17 | 1942 | US | monoplane trainer |
| Yakovlev Yak-5 | 1944 | USSR | |
| Yokosuka D3Y | 1945 | Japan | bomber trainer |
Rotorcraft prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breguet-Dorand Gyroplane Laboratoire | 1935 | France | Helicopter |
| Dorand G.20 | n/a | France | Helicopter |
| Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 | 1942 | Germany | twin rotor transport helicopter |
| Focke-Achgelis Fa 225 | 1942 | Germany | rotary wing glider |
| Hafner Rotabuggy | 1943 | UK | towed autogyro jeep |
| Higgins EB-1 | 1943 | US | Helicopter |
| Kellett KD-1/XO-60/YO-60 | 1934 | US | autogyro |
| Landgraf H-2 | 1944 | US | helicopter |
| McDonnell XHJH Whirlaway | 1944 | US | helicopter |
| Piaggio-D'Ascanio PD3 | 1942 | Italy | helicopter |
| Piasecki HRP Rescuer | 1945 | US | helicopter |
| Platt-LePage XR-1 | 1941 | US | helicopter |
| Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 | 1939 | US | amphibious helicopter |
Missile prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blohm & Voss BV 143 | 1941 | Germany | anti-ship missile |
| Blohm & Voss BV 246 | 1943 | Germany | Hagelkorn guided glide bomb |
| EMW C2 Wasserfall | 1943 | Germany | guided surface-to-air missile developed from V-2 |
| Fletcher PQ-11 | 1941 | US | target drone/glide bomb |
| McDonnell LBD Gargoyle | 1945 | US | air-to-surface missile |
| Mistel | 1943 | Germany | large air-to-surface missile with parasite guidance aircraft |
| Northrop JB-1 Bat | 1944 | US | surface-to-surface missile |
| Republic-Ford JB-2 | 1944 | US | surface-to-surface missile (V-1 copy) |
| Rheinmetall-Borsig Feuerlilie | 1943 | Germany | surface-to-air missile |
| Ruhrstahl X-4 | 1944 | Germany | air-to-air missile |
Miscellaneous prototypes
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airspeed Fleet Shadower | 1940 | UK | low speed shipborne aircraft for tracking enemy fleet visually |
| AVIS C.4 | 1940 | Italy | liaison |
| Bestetti BN.1 | 1940 | Italy | racer/fighter/liaison |
| Blackburn B-20 | 1940 | UK | seaplane with retractable hull |
| Bloch MB.480 | 1939 | France | floatplane |
| Blohm & Voss BV 141 | 1938 | Germany | asymmetrical tactical reconnaissance aircraft |
| Blohm & Voss BV 238 | 1944 | Germany | large transport flying boat |
| Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger | 1942 | US | patrol seaplane |
| CANT Z.511 | 1940 | Italy | transport/bomber floatplane |
| CANT Z.516 | 1940 | Italy | bomber floatplane |
| Caproni Ca.316 | 1940 | Italy | floatplane |
| Caproni Ca.331 | 1940 | Italy | reconnaissance aircraft, bomber, and night fighter |
| Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor | 1939 | US | patrol seaplane |
| DFS 228 | 1944 | Germany | high-altitude manned reconnaissance rocket |
| ERCO Ercoupe YO-55 | 1940 | US | JATO tests |
| Fairchild XBQ-3 | 1944 | US | assault drone |
| Fleetwings XBQ-2 | 1943 | US | assault drone |
| General Aircraft Fleet Shadower | 1940 | UK | low-speed shipborne aircraft for tracking enemy vessels |
| Kawanishi E15K | 1941 | Japan | reconnaissance floatplane |
| Koolhoven F.K.49 | 1935 | Netherlands | photo survey |
| Loire-Nieuport 10 | 1939 | France | patrol floatplane |
| LWS-3 Mewa | 1938 | Poland | army cooperation |
| Nakajima Ki-115 | 1945 | Japan | kamikaze aircraft |
| Nihon L7P | 1942 | Japan | transport amphibian |
| Nikol A-2 | 1939 | Poland | seaplane trainer |
| Potez-CAMS 141 | 1938 | France | long range reconnaissance flying boat |
| Praga E-51 | 1938 | Czechoslovakia | tactical reconnaissance |
| SFAN 11 | 1940 | France | liaison |
| Short Seaford | 1944 | UK | improved Sunderland, trials only |
| Short Shetland | 1944 | UK | long range reconnaissance flying boat |
| SNCAC NC.4-10 | 1939 | France | floatplane bomber/torpedo bomber |
| SNCAO 30 | 1938 | France | seaplane trainer |
| Tachikawa Ki-70 | 1943 | Japan | high-speed photo reconnaissance aircraft |
| Tupolev MTB-2 | 1937 | USSR | four-engine flying boat, cancelled after German invasion |
| Zveno SPB | 1938 | USSR | 2-5 parasite fighters carried by bomber |
Experimental aircraft
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
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 | 1945 | UK | flying wing |
| Bell 30 | 1943 | US | experimental helicopter |
| Cierva W.9 | 1945 | UK | experimental helicopter |
| DFS 40 | 1939 | Germany | tailless aircraft |
| DFS 194 | 1940 | Germany | aerodynamic testbed for Messerschmitt Me 163 |
| Göppingen Gö 9 | 1941 | Germany | tail mounted propeller testbed |
| Handley Page Manx | 1943 | UK | tailless aircraft |
| Hiller XH-44 | 1944 | US | coaxial rotor helicopter |
| Hillson Bi-mono | 1941 | UK | slip wing testbed |
| Kayaba Ku-2 | 1940 | Japan | tailless glider |
| Kayaba Ku-3 | 1941 | Japan | tailless glider |
| Kawasaki Ki-78 | 1942 | Japan | high speed flight |
| Kellett XR-8 | 1944 | US | intermesh rotor helicopter |
| Lippisch DM-1 | 1944 | Germany | delta-wing glider |
| Martin 162A Tadpole Clipper | 1937 | US | half scale flyingboat |
| Miles M.30 | 1942 | UK | blended wing |
| Miles M.35 Libellula | 1942 | UK | tandem wing |
| Miles M.39B Libellula | 1943 | UK | tandem wing/canard |
| Northrop N-1M | 1941 | US | flying wing |
| Northrop N-9M | 1942 | US | flying wing |
| Payen PA-22 | 1942 | France | delta and tandem-wing |
| Piasecki PV-2 | 1943 | US | helicopter |
| Saro Shrimp | 1939 | UK | half sized flying boat |
| Tachikawa SS-1 | 1943 | Japan | high altitude research, pressurized cabin |
| Vought V-173 | 1942 | US | aerodynamic testbed for Vought XF5U which never flew |
| Yokosuka MXY6 | 1943 | Japan | aerodynamic testbed for Kyushu J7W |
| Yokosuka MXY8/Ku-13 | 1945 | Japan | aerodynamic testbed for Mitsubishi J8M rocket interceptor |
Engine research
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caproni Campini N.1 | 1940 | Italy | jet engine testbed |
| Folland Fo.108 | 1940 | UK | piston engine testbed |
| Gloster E.28/39 | 1941 | UK | jet engine testbed |
| Heinkel He 176 | 1939 | Germany | rocket engine testbed |
| Heinkel He 178 | 1939 | Germany | jet engine testbed |
Misc research
| Name of aircraft | Year first flight |
Country of origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akaflieg Berlin B 9 | 1944 | Germany | prone pilot research |
| Heinkel He 119 | 1937 | Germany | streamlining |
| Piaggio P.111 | 1941 | Italy | high altitude research |
See also
- List of fighter aircraft
- List of bomber aircraft
- List of attack aircraft
- List of seaplanes and amphibious 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 Luftwaffe aircraft by manufacturer, World War II
- List of German aircraft projects, 1939-1945
- 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
Notes
- Built in Canada
- Retired 1942
- Carrier-based fighter
- In service by VJ day
- Obsolete aircraft used for training
- carrier-based fighter/dive bomber
- Prototype used operationally
- Also built in Canada
- Retired by Germany before war
- Heavy bomber, maritime patrol and transport
- Maritime patrol before relegated to transport duties.
- Retired by Japan before Dec. 1941
- Retired by US before war
- Transport version only
- Primarily used as trainer
- Retired by UK before war
- Second line duties during war
- Bomber/transport
- Obsolete fighter used for reconnaissance
- Not used by France
- Submarine-borne aircraft
- Not used by Germany
- Also used as a trainer and photo reconnaissance.
- Later versions built as transports
- RCAF bought 2 ex-inflight refuelling aircraft
- Paratroop transport and glider tug
- Built in Canada & elsewhere
- Variant specifically built as a trainer
- Ordered by Thailand, disarmed and impressed as trainer
- Not used by US
Citations
- 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.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2012-06-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) accessdate=26 June 2012
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