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Toggle Transport aircraft subsection. 5.1 Transport planes. 5.2 Transport gliders. ... The Hamlyn Concise Guide to Axis Aircraft of World War II. London: Bounty Books.
A list of USAAF, USN, USCG, and USMC aircraft from World War II. This list is incomplete; ... Passenger aircraft Executive transport May 1940 8 NAF N3N-3 [12]
The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. Besides transport of cargo, the C-54 also carried presidents, prime ...
During World War II, the armed forces of many countries used the C-47 and modified DC-3s for the transport of troops, cargo, and wounded. The U.S. naval designation was R4D. More than 10,000 aircraft were produced in Long Beach and Santa Monica, California, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Between March 1943 and August 1945, the Oklahoma City plant ...
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
The prototype for what would become the C-46, the Curtiss CW-20, was designed in 1937 by George A. Page Jr., the chief aircraft designer at Curtiss-Wright. [4] The CW-20 was a private venture intended to compete with the four-engined Douglas DC-4 and Boeing 307 Stratoliner by the introduction of a new standard in pressurized airliners. [5]
Aircraft Allied Code name First flown Number built Service Kawasaki Ki-56 Army Type 1 Freight Transport & Tachikawa Navy Type LO: Thalia/Thelma 1940 121 IJA: Mitsubishi Ki-57 Army Type 100 Transport: Topsy 1940 406 IJA & IJN: Nakajima Ki-34 Army Type 97 Transport & Nakajima L1N Navy Type AT-2 Transport: Thora 1936 351 IJA & IJN
The Junkers Ju 52/3m (nicknamed Tante Ju ("Aunt Ju") and Iron Annie) is a transport aircraft that was designed and manufactured by German aviation company Junkers.First introduced during 1930 as a civilian airliner, it was adapted into a military transport aircraft by Germany's Nazi regime, who exercised power over the company for its war efforts, over the objections of the company's founder ...