RapidFireWeb Blackburn Buccaneer (SDASM Photo) A Buccaneer S.2 launches from HMS Eagle; the S.2 featured more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines that allowed it to launch at its maximum take-off weight. The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN). Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, … Read more
Bristol Bolingbroke (Tim Felce Photo) Bristol Bolingbroke Mk. IVT (Blenheim Mk. IF), (Serial No. L6739), 82 Squadron, Reg. No. G-BPIV, Aircraft Restoration Co, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Airworthy. Bristol Bolingbroke, RCAF (Serial No. 9893). IWM Duxford. Bristol Blenheim Mk. IVT (Serial No. R3821), nose. IWM Duxford (Alan Wilson Photo) (Hugh Llewelyn Photo) Bristol (Fairchild) Bolingbroke Mk. IVT, … Read more
USAAF aircraft of the Second World War preserved in the UK Bell P-39 Airacobra (Kogo Photos) Bell P-39Q Airacobra (Serial No. 42-19993), c/n 26E-397, Reg. No. G-CEJU, “Brooklyn Bum 2nd”, The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Airworthy. (RAF Photo) Bell P-63 Kingcobra, RAF (Serial No. FZ440), ca 1945. Bell P-63 Kingcobra (Serial No. 43-11137), under restoration … Read more
Bristol Beaufighter Bristol Beaufighter (Serial No. NT950), No. 236 Squadron RAF, wearing D-Day invasion stripes, prowling over the North Sea in mid-1944. The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often called the Beau) is a British multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was originally conceived as a heavy fighter … Read more
Blackburn Firecrest (RAF Photo) The Blackburn B.48 Firecrest, given the SBAC designation YA.1, was a single-engine naval strike fighter built by Blackburn Aircraft for service with the British Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. It was a development of the troubled Firebrand, designed to Air Ministry Specification S.28/43, for an improved aircraft more suited … Read more
Bristol Beaufort (Library of Congress Photo fsa.8d29959) Bristol Beaufort Mk. V, Royal Australian Air Force. This was the first Beaufort delivered to the RAAF on 3 September 1941, RAF (Serial No. T9450). Subsequently it received the RAAF (Serial A9-1). Originally this aircraft was intended for use in Singapore, but it was retained in Australia. It … Read more
Boulton Paul Defiant (RAF Photo) Boulton Paul Defiant Mk. I, coded X-PS, flown by members of the RCAF serving with the RAF in the UK, ca. 1941. The Boulton P.82 Paul Defiant was designed and built as a “turret fighter”, without any forward-firing guns. In the air battles over Britain that took place in the … Read more
Avro Vulcan (RAF Photo) A four-Vulcan formation flight to mark the disbandment of the types final operational bomber squadron, No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF, taken in 1982. XM607 leading, XM612 to port, XL391 to starboard, XM597 line astern. The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963), is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, … Read more
Boeing Fortress The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the United Kingdom. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are by the author unless otherwise credited. Any errors found here … Read more
Bristol Brigand (RAF Photo) The Bristol Brigand was a British multi-purpose aircraft developed by Bristol Aeroplane Company as a replacement for the Beaufighter in the mid-1940s. The aircraft entered service with the RAF in 1946 as anti-shipping torpedo bomber and ground attack aircraff, only 147 were ever built, and were rarely used by the RAF. They … Read more
