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List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force. Many aircraft types have served in the British Royal Air Force since its formation in April 1918 from the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. This is a list of RAF aircraft, including all currently active and retired types listed in alphabetic order by their RAF type name.
20 January 1966. First flight. 5 January 1964. Retired. from RAF service 1976. The Short Belfast (or Shorts Belfast) [2] is a heavy lift turboprop freighter that was built by British manufacturer Short Brothers at Belfast. Only 10 aircraft were constructed, all of which entered service with the Royal Air Force (RAF), who operated it under the ...
Transport: 2024-6: Six aircraft ordered; to replace Puma HC2s deployed in Cyprus and Brunei from 2024. ... Used by the RAF Air Experience Flight. 28 Tutors have been ...
Royal family. The first aircraft ordered specifically for transport of the royal family, two Westland Wapitis, were delivered to No. 24 Squadron at RAF Northolt in April 1928. Although the Royal Air Force maintained at least one of these aircraft for a time, the Prince of Wales eventually became solely responsible for the aircraft.
Vespina flanked by the Red Arrows at the 2022 Royal International Air Tattoo. The Royal Air Force VIP Voyager, identified with the military aircraft registration ZZ336, [1] and more recently named by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as Vespina since June 2020, [2][3][4] refers to a customised RAF Voyager KC3 owned by AirTanker Holdings Limited [5] and ...
Insignia. Badge heraldry. A golden griffon in front of a globe. RAF Transport Command was a Royal Air Force command that controlled all transport aircraft of the RAF. It was established on 25 March 1943 by the renaming of the RAF Ferry Command, and was subsequently renamed RAF Air Support Command in 1967.
The Hawker Siddeley HS 780 Andover is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft produced by Hawker Siddeley for the Royal Air Force (RAF), developed from the Avro -designed HS 748 airliner. The Andover was named after the Avro Andover, a biplane transport used by the RAF for medical evacuation between the first and second world wars ...
Airbus A400M Atlas. The Airbus A400M Atlas[nb 1] is a European four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. It was designed by Airbus Military, now Airbus Defence and Space, as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities to replace older transport aircraft, such as the Transall C-160 and the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. [3]