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This is a list of aircraft used by the Irish Air Corps during World War II. During World War II the Irish airforce obtained some aircraft through the confiscation of aircraft that had been forced to land in Ireland.
Oberleutnant Armin Faber was a German Luftwaffe pilot in World War II who mistook the Bristol Channel for the English Channel and landed his Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Fw 190) intact at RAF Pembrey in South Wales. His plane was the first Fw 190 to be captured by the Allies and was tested to reveal any weaknesses that could be exploited. [1]
The aircraft (T9044) has lain underneath 60 feet (18 m) of water since 1940 and has had various parts of its airframe already lifted out and cleaned to be put on display. [57] It was the subject of an episode of the Channel 4 documentary series Wreck Detectives , which was filmed in 2003 and broadcast in 2004.
Due to the large numbers of aircraft crashing in the nearby mountains of Snowdonia, it was here that the RAF Mountain Rescue Service was formed in 1943. Postwar, the airfield was used as a storage facility for chemical weapons recovered from Europe. It reopened in 1969 and remains in civil operation today as Caernarfon Airport.
September – A USAAF Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft crashes off the coast near Harlech. [10] 18 October – An RAF Vickers Wellington bomber, [11] based at RAF Talbenny, Wales, crashes at 16:08 near Ruislip station while on approach to RAF Northolt, England, killing all 15 on board and six on the ground (including four children). [12]
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.
Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft (1988) 414pp; Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016).
General Aircraft Fleet Shadower (RAF) maritime patrol; Martin-Baker M.B.5. General Aircraft GAL.47 (RAF) Army cooperation; General Aircraft GAL.55 (RAF) training glider; Gloster F.9/37 (RAF) heavy fighter; Hafner Rotabuggy (RAF) developed as a way of air-dropping vehicles; Hawker Hotspur (RAF) turret fighter; Hawker Fury (monoplane) (RAF) fighter