This is a list of aircraft used by the

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(RFC) from 13 April 1912, when it was formed from the Air Battalion Royal Engineers, until 1 April 1918 when it was merged with the

Royal Naval Air Service The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps t ...

(RNAS) to form the

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...

(RAF). The RFC operated in parallel with the RNAS, whose aircraft are listed at List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service. For a list of Royal Air Force aircraft see

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 ...

Operational aeroplanes

Airships

The airship service was disbanded 1 January 1914 and all airships transferred to the RNAS. See List of British airships * ''British Army Airship No.3/Baby''/''Beta''/''Beta'' II * No.2A – 1910– * ''Delta'' – 1912–1914 * Epsilon I and Epsilon II – * ''Eta'' 1913–1914 *''

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II'' ''Zeta'' 1910–1910 *'' Lebaudy Morning Post'' 1910–1911

Prototypes

ASL Valkyrie The ASL Valkyrie was a canard pusher configuration aircraft designed by the Aeronautical Syndicate Ltd in 1910. Examples were widely flown during 1911 and were used for instructional purposes at the ASL flying school, which was the first occup ...

No serial assigned, donated aircraft probably not flown by the RFC. * Airco DH.3 * Armstrong Whitworth F.K.7 * Armstrong Whitworth F.K.9 *

Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 The Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 was a British two-seat quadruplane (''i.e.'', four wing) fighter aircraft built by Armstrong Whitworth during the First World War. While it was ordered in small numbers for the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Nava ...

* Avro 521 * Beatty-Wright Biplanes * Bristol-Prier Monoplane * Bristol TB.8 & G.B.75 * Bristol S.2A * Caproni Ca.1Abandoned en route during delivery flight, no serial assigned. * Caudron Type C/45 hp * Caudron G.IV * Caudron R.XI *

Cody V biplane The Cody V was a single-engined biplane built by the British-based American aviation pioneer Samuel Franklin Cody in 1912. It was built from the remains of two of Cody's earlier aircraft, and won the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition, ...

* Curtiss C-1 Canada * Dunne D.8 * Farman Type Militaire, 1910 * Flanders F.4 * Grahame-White Type VII & VIIc * Grahame-White Type VIII * Grahame-White Pusher Biplane * Grahame-White School Biplane * Handley Page Type O/400Ordered by the RFC but delivered to the

. * Howard Wright biplane * Martin-Handasyde Monoplane * Martinsyde F.3 *

Morane-Saulnier AC The Morane-Saulnier AC, also known as Morane-Saulnier Type AC and MoS 23, was a French fighter of the 1910s. Development The AC was conceived in mid-1916, being derived from the Type N via the unbuilt Type U. It differed from earlier single-s ...

* Paulhan biplane * Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.9 *

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4 The Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4 was a twin-engine biplane aircraft built by the Royal Aircraft Factory in 1916. Intended as a cannon armed ground-attack aircraft, it was unsuccessful, only two being built. Design and development Shortly after ...

* Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.9 * Royal Aircraft Factory N.E.1 * Short Tractor Biplane * Sopwith Sparrow *

Sopwith Triplane The Sopwith Triplane was a British single seat fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiori ...

* SPAD S.XII * Vickers F.B.7/7A * Vickers F.B.27 Vimy * Vickers F.B.26 Vampire * Wright Model HNo serial assigned, previous model B out of service before 1912.

Unmanned aerial vehicles

British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I Soon after its re-purposing from the Army Balloon Factory to the Royal Aircraft Factory in 1912, designers at this Farnborough base turned their thoughts to flying an unmanned aircraft. During the First World War this pioneering work resulted in t ...

List of weapons of the Royal Flying Corps

Bombs

Cooper bombs The Cooper bomb was a British 20 pound bomb used extensively in World War I, it was the first high explosive bomb to be adapted by the Royal Flying Corps. Design The bomb was in weight, of which was the bomb casing and was an explosive ch ...

Ranken dart The Ranken Dart was an anti-Zeppelin weapon developed during the First World War. It was an air-dropped explosive flechette-type of missile-shaped bomb which was long and wide while being of a steel and wood construcation. It was developed for ...

Rockets

* Le Prieur rocket - Incendiary

air-to-air rocket An air-to-air rocket or air interception rocket is an unguided projectile fired from aircraft to engage other flying targets. They were used briefly in World War I to engage enemy observation balloons and in and after World War II to engage enem ...

Machine guns

* 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Lewis gun * 0.303-inch (7.7-mm)

Vickers machine gun The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man crew but typically required more men to move and o ...

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