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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.
Timeline of USAF fighter jets. ↓ First operational American jet. P-59 Airacomet. F-86 Sabre. F-15 Eagle. P-80 Shooting Star. F-101 Voodoo. F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Fighter North American Aviation First jet aircraft in USN service to serve at sea under operational conditions. Also the first American jet fighter to employ a single, straight ram duct in its nose. [100] 1946 [21] 1947 [34] /1948 [21] 30 + 3 Prototypes F6U Pirate: Fighter Chance Vought Vought's first jet fighter, 1946 Never 33 XF2R Dark Shark ...
Fighter/bomber, first jet powered flying wing. [20] Junkers Ju 287: Germany: August 1944: Prototype: n/a: 1: Testbed for multi-engine bomber design. [21] Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star: US: January 1944: Operational: January 1945: 361: First operational US jet fighter. Four deployed during the war, two seeing limited service in Italy, but no ...
List of United States Air Force aircraft designations (1919–1962) List of United States Navy aircraft designations (pre-1962) List of United States Army aircraft designations (1956–1962) List of United States Tri-Service aircraft designations; List of U.S. DoD aircraft designations; List of undesignated military aircraft of the United States
First introduced during the Spanish Civil War, the Messerschmitt Bf-109 became Germany’s most extensively produced fighter aircraft in WWII, with an estimated production of approximately 34,000 ...
In the US Air Force the naming convention for fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the second world war onwards are sorted into generations, from 1 to 5, based on technological level. [1] [2] An American F-16 fighter jet