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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 ...
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Aircraft in squadron use

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AD Flying Boat The AD Flying Boat was designed by the British Admiralty's Air Department to serve as a patrol aircraft that could operate in conjunction with Royal Navy warships. Intended for use during the First World War, production of the aircraft was te ...
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Airco DH.4 The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited (Airco) was an early British aircraft manufacturer. Established during 1912, it grew rapidly during the First World War, referring to itself as the largest aircraft company in the world by 1918. Ai ...
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Airco DH.6 The Airco DH.6 was a British military trainer biplane used by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Known by various nicknames, including the "Clutching hand" and "Skyhook", many survived to be used as a civil light aircraft in the p ...
* Airco DH.9 * Armstrong Whitworth FK.3 * Avro 503 *
Avro 504 The Avro 504 was a First World War biplane aircraft made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others. Production during the war totalled 8,970 and continued for almost 20 years, making it the most-produced aircraft of any kind tha ...
* Beardmore WB.III *
Blériot XI The Blériot XI is a French aircraft of the pioneer era of aviation. The first example was used by Louis Blériot to make the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft, on 25 July 1909. This is one of the most fa ...
* Bréguet Type III * Bréguet 4 * Bréguet 5 *
Bristol Boxkite The Boxkite (officially the Bristol Biplane) was the first aircraft produced by the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company (later known as the Bristol Aeroplane Company). A pusher biplane based on the successful Farman III, it was one of the fi ...
* Bristol TB.8 *
Bristol Scout The Bristol Scout was a single-seat rotary-engined biplane originally designed as a racing aircraft. Like similar fast, light aircraft of the period it was used by the RNAS and the RFC as a " scout", or fast reconnaissance type. It was one o ...
* Caudron G.3 140 used as trainers * Caudron G.4 46 used as bombers * Curtiss H.4 Small America * Curtiss H.12 Large America * Curtiss H.16 Large America *
Curtiss Model R __NOTOC__ The Curtiss Model R was a utility aircraft produced for the United States Army and Navy during World War I. It was a conventional, two-bay biplane with slightly staggered wings of unequal span. The aircraft was provided with two open co ...
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Curtiss JN-3 The Curtiss JN "Jenny" was a series of biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for th ...
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Curtiss JN-4 The Curtiss JN "Jenny" was a series of biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for th ...
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Curtiss Jenny The Curtiss JN "Jenny" was a series of biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for th ...
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Fairey IIIA The Fairey Aviation Company Fairey III was a family of British reconnaissance biplanes that enjoyed a very long production and service history in both landplane and seaplane variants. First flying on 14 September 1917, examples were still in us ...
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Fairey Campania The Fairey Campania was a British ship-borne, patrol and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War and Russian Civil War. It was a single-engine, two-seat biplane with twin main floats and backward-folding wings. The Campania was the first ...
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Fairey Hamble Baby The Fairey Hamble Baby was a British single-seat naval patrol floatplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation for the Royal Naval Air Service Design and development Fairey Aviation built a number of Sopwith Baby floatplanes at its Hamble work ...
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Farman F.40 The Farman F.40 was a French pusher biplane reconnaissance aircraft. Development Developed from a mix of the Maurice Farman designed MF.11 and the Henry Farman designed HF.22, the F.40 (popularly dubbed the Horace Farman) had an overall s ...
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Farman HF.20 The Farman HF.20 and its derivatives were a family of reconnaissance aircraft produced in France shortly before and during the First World War. It was a refined version of the Farman MF.11 "Shorthorn" that did away with the type's distinctive l ...
* Farman MF.7 Longhorn * Farman MF.11 Shorthorn *
Felixstowe F.2 The Felixstowe F.2 was a 1917 British flying boat class designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe during the First World War adapting a larger version of his superior Felixstowe F. ...
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Felixstowe Porte Baby The Felixstowe Porte Baby (also known as the Porte F.B.2) was a British reconnaissance flying boat of the First World War, first flying in 1915. Design and development The Porte Baby was designed by John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air statio ...
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Felixstowe F.3 The Felixstowe F.3 was a British First World War flying boat, successor to the Felixstowe F.2 designed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe. Design and development In February 1917, the first pro ...
* Felixstowe F.5 * Flanders B.2 *
Grahame-White Type XV The Grahame White Type XV was a military trainer biplane produced in the United Kingdom before and during World War I. It is often referred to as the Box-kite, although this name more properly describes the Grahame-White Type XII, an earlier a ...
* Handley Page 0/100 and 0/400 *
Mann Egerton Type B The Mann Egerton Type B was a 1910s British maritime patrol aircraft developed from the Short Type 184 by Mann Egerton and Company of Norwich. Design and development Mann Egerton were given a contract in 1915 to build the Short Type 184, a t ...
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Morane-Borel monoplane The Morane-Borel monoplane (sometimes referred to with the retronym Morane-Saulnier Type A or simply the Morane monoplane; company designation Bo.1) was an early French single-engine, single-seat aircraft. It was flown in several European air r ...
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Morane-Saulnier BB The Morane-Saulnier BB was a military observation aircraft produced in France during World War I for use by Britain's Royal Flying Corps.Taylor 1989, 684"The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft", 2538 It was a conventional single-bay biplane ...
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Morane-Saulnier Type L The Morane-Saulnier L, or Morane-Saulnier Type L, or officially MoS-3, was a French parasol wing one or two-seat scout aeroplane of the First World War. The Type L became one of the first successful fighter aircraft when it was fitted with a s ...
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Nieuport VI The Nieuport VI was a sport monoplane produced in France in the 1910s, a further development by Nieuport along the same general lines as the Nieuport II and Nieuport IV, differing mainly from the Nieuport IV in being slightly larger.Taylor 1989, ...
* Nieuport 10 * Nieuport 11 * Nieuport 12 *
Nieuport 17 The Nieuport 17 C.1 (or Nieuport XVII C.1 in contemporary sources) was a French sesquiplane fighter designed and manufactured by the Nieuport company during World War I. An improvement over the Nieuport 11, it was a little larger than earlier N ...
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Nieuport 17bis The Nieuport 17bis C.1 (or Nieuport XVIIbis C.1 in contemporary sources) was a World War I French single-seat sesquiplane fighter that was produced under licence in the United Kingdom in small numbers for the Royal Naval Air Service. Developme ...
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Nieuport 21 The Nieuport 21 (or Nieuport XXI C.1 in contemporary sources) was a French single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft used during World War I. The aircraft was used by the French, Russian, British and American air forces. After the war, the Nie ...
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Nieuport 24 The Nieuport 24 (or Nieuport XXIV C.1 in contemporary sources) was a World War I French sesquiplane fighter aircraft designed by Gustave Delage as a development of the successful Nieuport 17. The Nieuport 24 had the misfortune to be the penult ...
* Norman Thompson N.T.2B *
Norman Thompson N.T.4 The Norman Thompson N.T.4 was a twin-engined British flying boat of the First World War. Although less well known than similar Curtiss and Felixstowe flying boats, 50 were ordered for Britain's Royal Naval Air Service. Development and design ...
* Parnall Hamble Baby Convert * Pemberton-Billing PB.25 *
REP Parasol The R.E.P. 'Parasol' Type L was a military reconnaissance aircraft designed and produced in France by Robert Esnault-Pelterie (hence R.E.P.) in 1914.Taylor 1989, p.758 Design and development It was a wire-braced, parasol-wing monoplane with a fi ...
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Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2 The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 was a British single-engine tractor two-seat biplane designed and developed at the Royal Aircraft Factory. Most of the roughly 3,500 built were constructed under contract by private companies, including establish ...
- 4 BE.2As & 95 BE.2EThetford (1994), p. 403. * Short Admiralty Type 74 * Short Bomber *
Short Folder Short Folder is a generic name often applied to several different Short Brothers' aircraft types designed and built prior to and during World War I. Short Brothers developed and patented folding wing mechanisms for ship-borne aircraft from 1913 ...
* Short Type 166 *
Short Type 184 The Short Admiralty Type 184, often called the Short 225 after the power rating of the engine first fitted, was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying folding-wing seaplane designed by Horace Short of Short Brothers. It ...
* Short 310-A *
Short Type 320 The Short Type 320, also known as the Short Admiralty Type 320, was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying "folder" seaplane of the First World War. Design and development The Short Type 320 was designed to meet an off ...
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Short Type 827 The Short Type 827 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827. Design and development The Short Type 827 was a two-bay biplane with unswept unequal-span wings, a slightly smaller ...
* Short Type 830 * Sopwith Type 807 *
Sopwith Type 860 __NOTOC__ The Sopwith Admiralty Type 860 was a 1910s British biplane seaplane torpedo bomber designed and built for the Admiralty by the Sopwith Aviation Company. Design and development First flown in December 1914 the Type 860 was an unswept b ...
* Sopwith B.1 *
Sopwith Baby The Sopwith Baby is a British single-seat floatplane that was operated by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) from 1915. Development and design The Baby (also known as the Admiralty 8200 Type) was a development of the two-seat Sopwith Schneider. ...
* Sopwith 1½ Strutter *
Sopwith Camel The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the Sopwith Pup and became one of the b ...
* Sopwith Cuckoo *
Sopwith Gunbus The Sopwith Gunbus was a British fighter aircraft of the First World War. It was a single-engined pusher biplane based on a floatplane built by Sopwith before the war for Greece. Small numbers were built and used by the British Royal Naval ...
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Sopwith Pup The Sopwith Pup is a British single-seater biplane fighter aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company. It entered service with the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps in the autumn of 1916. With pleasant flying characteristi ...
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Sopwith Tabloid The Sopwith Tabloid and Sopwith Schneider (floatplane) were British biplanes, originally designed as sports aircraft and later adapted for military use. They were among the first successful types to be built by the Sopwith Aviation Company. The ...
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Sopwith Three-seater The Sopwith Three-seater was a British aircraft designed and built prior to the start of the First World War. One of the first aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company, it was operated by both the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and the Ro ...
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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 ...
* Sopwith Two-Seat Scout * Thomas Brothers T-2 * Vickers Type 32 Gunbus *
Voisin III The Voisin III was a French World War I two-seat pusher biplane multi-purpose aircraft developed by Voisin in 1914 as a more powerful version of the 1912 Voisin I. It is notable for being the aircraft used for the first successful shooting dow ...
* White and Thompson No. 3 * White and Thompson Bognor Bloater * Wight Converted Seaplane * Wight Pusher Seaplane * Wight Seaplane


Prototypes and other minor aircraft

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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 ...
* AD Boat *
AD Scout The AD Scout (also known as the Sparrow) was designed by Harris Booth of the British Admiralty's Air Department as a fighter aircraft to defend Britain from Zeppelin bombers during World War I. Design and development The Scout was a very un ...
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AD Navyplane The AD Navyplane was designed by the British Admiralty's Air Department as a reconnaissance aircraft for use during World War I. Performance of the prototype was so disappointing that plans to produce it were cancelled almost immediately. ...
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AD Seaplane Type 1000 The AD Seaplane Type 1000 also known as the Admiralty Type 1000 and the AD.1 (from Air Department) was a British seaplane of the First World War designed to attack German warships. When it first flew, it was the largest British aircraft yet to ...
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Alcock Scout The Alcock Scout, a.k.a. A.1 and Sopwith Mouse, was a curious "one-off" experimental fighter biplane flown briefly during World War I. It was assembled by Flight Lieutenant John Alcock at Moudros, a Royal Naval Air Service base in the Aege ...
- 1 built and used operationally * Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6 * Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 - 4 usedThetford (1994), p. 398. * Avro Type D *
Avro 500 The Avro Type E, Type 500, and Type 502 made up a family of early British military aircraft, regarded by Alliott Verdon Roe as his firm's first truly successful design. It was a forerunner of the Avro 504, one of the outstanding aircraft of the ...
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Avro 501 The Avro Type H, Type 501, and Type 503 were a family of early British military seaplanes. They were a development of the Avro 500 design and were originally conceived of as amphibious, the prototype being fitted with a single large main float ( ...
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Avro 510 The Avro 510 was a two-seat racing seaplane designed by Avro to compete in the 1914 Circuit of Britain Race. It was a conventional two-bay biplane of greatly uneven span, equipped with two large central floats and two outriggers. The race wa ...
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Avro 519 The Avro 519 was a British bomber aircraft of the First World War, a development of the Avro 510 seaplane. They were two-bay biplanes of conventional configuration with greatly uneven span. Two single-seat examples, powered by a single 150&nb ...
* Avro 528 *
Avro 529 The Avro 529 was a twin-engined biplane long-range bomber of the First World War. Two prototypes were built but no production ensued. Development The Avro 529 was Avro's second twin-engined aircraft and their second attempt at a heavy bomber. ...
* Avro Pike * Beardmore W.B.1 * Beardmore W.B.1a * Beardmore WB.III * Beardmore W.B.V * Blackburn Blackburd * Blackburn Triplane *
Blackburn Twin Blackburn The Blackburn TB (for "Twin Blackburn") was a long-range twin-engined anti-Zeppelin seaplane. It was Blackburn's first multi-engine aircraft to fly. Design and development The first attacks by German bombing airships on the United Kingdom in ...
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Blériot Parasol Blériot may refer to: * Louis Blériot, a French aviation pioneer * Blériot Aéronautique, an aircraft manufacturer founded by Louis Blériot * Blériot-Whippet The Blériot-Whippet was a British 4 wheeled cyclecar made from 1920 to 1927 by t ...
-12 used.Thetford (1994), p. 406. * Borel hydro-monoplane - 8 or more used. see
Etablissements Borel Etablissements Borel was a French aircraft manufacturer of the early twentieth century. It was founded by Gabriel Borel (1880–?1960) and manufactured a number of monoplane designs between 1909 and 1914. The factory, located at Mourmelon was tem ...
* Burgess Gunbus * Caproni Ca.4 * Curtiss C-1 Canada *
Curtiss T Wanamaker Triplane The Wanamaker Triplane or Curtiss Model T, retroactively renamed Curtiss Model 3 was a large Experimental aircraft, experimental four-engined triplane patrol flying boat of World War I. It was the first four-engined aircraft built in the United ...
* Dyott Bomber *
FBA Type H The FBA Type H was a French reconnaissance flying boat produced in large numbers in France and Italy during World War I by Franco-British Aviation. Design and development A development of the FBA Type A, the Type H shared the same basic pushe ...
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Fairey F.2 __NOTOC__ The Fairey F.2 was a British fighter prototype in the late 1910s. It was the first aircraft designed entirely by the Fairey Aviation Company. Development The F.2 was ordered by the Admiralty in 1916 as a massive, three-seat long-ra ...
* Flanders B.2 *
Felixstowe F.1 The Felixstowe F.1 was a British experimental flying boat designed and developed by Lieutenant Commander John Cyril Porte RN at the naval air station, Felixstowe based on the Curtiss H-4 with a new hull. Its design led to a range of successful ...
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Handley Page Type G The Handley Page Type G was a two-seat British biplane, designed by Handley Page that first flew in 1913. Only one was built. Development The Type G was the first biplane wholly designed by Handley Page. In 1924 the early Handley Page types we ...
* Mann Egerton Type H *
Nieuport IV The Nieuport IV was a French-built sporting, training and reconnaissance monoplane of the early 1910s. Design and development Societe Anonyme des Etablissements Nieuport was formed in 1909 by Édouard Nieuport. The Nieuport IV was a develop ...
* Norman Thompson N.1B *
Parnall Scout The Parnall Scout, unofficially nicknamed the Zeppelin Chaser, was a British fighter prototype of the 1910s. It was the first fighter design from Parnall. Development Parnall began work on a single-seat anti-airship fighter aircraft in 1916 bas ...
* Pemberton-Billing P.B.9 * Port Victoria P.V.1 * Port Victoria P.V.2 * Port Victoria P.V.7 * Port Victoria P.V.8 *
Port Victoria Grain Griffin The Grain Griffin was a British Aircraft carrier, carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft developed and built by the Port Victoria Marine Experimental Aircraft Depot, RNAS Marine Experimental Depot, Port Victoria, during the World War I, First Wor ...
* Royal Aircraft Factory BE.8 *
Royal Aircraft Factory H.R.E.2 The Royal Aircraft Factory H.R.E.2 was intended as a Naval reconnaissance floatplane. The single example built was serving with the Royal Naval Air Service at the start of World War I. Design and development The H.R.E.2 was the second aircraf ...
* Royal Aircraft Factory RE.5 * Royal Aircraft Factory RE.7 *
Sage Type 4 The Sage Type 4 was a prototype British floatplane of the First World War. It was a designed as a two-seat reconnaissance aircraft for the Royal Naval Air Service, but was chosen for service as a floatplane trainer, although the end of the war ...
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Short S.27 The Short S.27 and its derivative, the Short Improved S.27 (sometimes called the Short-Sommer biplane), were a series of early British aircraft built by Short Brothers. They were used by the Admiralty and Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps fo ...
* Short Tandem Twin (modified S.27) * Short S.36 Tractor Biplane *
Short S.34 The Short S.27 and its derivative, the Short Improved S.27 (sometimes called the Short-Sommer biplane), were a series of early British aircraft built by Short Brothers. They were used by the Admiralty and Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps fo ...
T1 * Short S.38 Trainer * Short S.39 Triple Twin *
Short S.41 The Short S.41 was a British single-engined biplane built for the Royal Navy in 1912. Capable of being operated either on wheels or floats, it was successful enough for a further two similar aircraft to be built, with the type remaining in us ...
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Short S.45 The Short S.45 — also known as the Short T.5 after its naval serial number — was a training biplane built for Britain's Royal Navy by Short Brothers in 1912. It was the forerunner of another three identical aircraft (designated S.48, S.49, ...
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Short S.46 Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as ...
* Short S.47 Triple Tractor T4 * Short S.53 Admiralty No. 42 * Short S.60 * Short S.63 Folder Seaplane * Short S.69 * Short S.81 Gunbus Seaplane *
Short S.82 Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as ...
* Short S.87 Type 135 Seaplane * Short S.135 * Short S.301 (140 hp Salmson) Seaplane * Short Type 310-B * Short N.2A Scout *
Short N.2B The Short N.2B was a prototype British patrol seaplane of the First World War, designed and built by Short Brothers. A single-engined biplane intended to replace Short's successful Type 184, only two were built, the Fairey III being preferred ...
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Sopwith Bat Boat The Sopwith Bat Boats were British flying boats designed and built from 1912 to 1914. A single-engined pusher biplane, the Bat Boat was the first successful flying boat and amphibious aircraft built in the United Kingdom, with examples used ...
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Sopwith Bee The Sopwith Bee was a small biplane built in 1916 as a personal aircraft for Harry Hawker, Sopwith's chief test pilot. History The Bee was a single-bay biplane powered by a Gnome Omega rotary engine, intended for use by Hawker as a runabout ...
* Sopwith D.1 * Sopwith H.T. Seaplane (Hydro Tractor) biplane, also known as the Cromarty * Sopwith Sociable * Spencer biplane *
SPAD VII The SPAD S.VII was the first of a series of highly successful biplane fighter aircraft produced by ''Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés'' (SPAD) during the First World War. Like its successors, the S.VII was renowned as a sturdy and r ...
* Tellier T.3 Flying-Boat * Westland N.1B * Wight Twin


Airships

* His Majesty's Airship No. 1 "Mayfly" * His Majesty's Naval Airship No. 2 (Willows No. 4) * No. 9r * 23 class airship *
R23X class airship The British R.23X class of rigid airships were developed during World War I using the experiences gained from the 23 class, but only two of the planned four R.23X class were built: ''R.27'' and ''R.29''. Both were completed mid-1918, but just ...
* R.29 * R31 class airship *
R33 class airship The R.33 class of British rigid airships were built for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War, but were not completed until after the end of hostilities, by which time the RNAS had become part of the Royal Air Force. The le ...
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Astra-Torres airship The Astra-Torres airships were non-rigid airships built by Société Astra in France between about 1908 and 1922 to a design by the Spaniard Leonardo Torres Quevedo. They had a highly-characteristic tri-lobed cross-section rather than the more usu ...
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SS class airship SS (''Submarine Scout'' or ''Sea Scout'') class airships were simple, cheap and easily assembled small non-rigid airships or "blimps" that were developed as a matter of some urgency to counter the German U-boat threat to British shipping during ...
* SSP class airship * SST class airship * SSZ class airship * Coastal class airship *
C Star class airship __NOTOC__ The C-Star class (sometimes written as C* class) of non-rigid airships or "blimps" were used by Britain's Royal Naval Air Service for convoy escort duties during World War I. Developed from the Coastal class (often referred to as th ...
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NS class airship The British NS (North Sea) class non-rigid airships were the largest and last in a succession of "blimps" that served with the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I; developed from experiences gained with earlier classes to operate off th ...


Unmanned aerial vehicles

* British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I


List of weapons of the Royal Naval Air Service


Armoured Cars

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Delaunay-Belleville armoured car The Delaunay-Belleville armoured car was a British armoured car built on the chassis of the luxury French Delaunay-Belleville tourer. It saw service with the Royal Naval Air Service in the early years of the First World War. Design The Delauna ...
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Lanchester armoured car The Lanchester armoured car was a British armoured car built on the chassis of the Lanchester "Sporting Forty", it saw wide service with the Royal Naval Air Service and British Army during the First World War. The Lanchester was the second mo ...
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Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry The Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry was a heavy armoured car mounting a QF 3-pounder Vickers gun, it was used by the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Design The Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry was a turreted armoured lorry based on ...
* Rolls-Royce Armoured Car *
Seabrook armoured lorry The Seabrook armoured lorry was a British heavy armoured car built on the chassis of an American 5-ton truck which saw service with the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War. Design The Seabrook was a commercially acquired lorry w ...
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Talbot armoured car The Talbot armoured car was a British armoured car built on the chassis of a Clément-Talbot tourer. Built in small numbers to several patterns, the Talbot armoured cars saw service with the Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.) in the early year ...


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 cooling, 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 me ...


Torpedoes

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British 18-inch torpedo There have been a number of 18-inch torpedoes in service with the United Kingdom. These have been used on ships of the Royal Navy and aircraft of both the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force, while Royal Navy surface ships and submarines use 21-inc ...


See also

* List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm *
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 t ...
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List of aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps This is a list of aircraft used by the Royal Flying Corps (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 (RNAS) to form the Royal Air F ...
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List of British airships Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France. The first British designed and built airship was constructed by Stanley Spencer, and on 22 September 1902 was flown from Crystal Palace, London to Ruislip, carr ...


References


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