RapidFireWeb 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 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
(Library and Archives Canada Photo, 3224374) RAF Consolidated Liberator, one of the two first bombers to land at Goose Bay in December 1941. They were being serviced prior to take-off. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California. It was known within the company as the … 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 Type 143 (Bristol Photo) The Bristol Type 133 was a single-seat, single-engine monoplane fighter armed with four guns, using stressed-skin construction and with a retractable undercarriage. It was built by The Bristol Aeroplane Co. to meet Specification F.7/30. The single example crashed before the trials commenced. Specification F.7/30 called for a four-gun fighter with … Read more
Bristol Bulldog 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
Gloster Gladiator (RAF Photo) Gloster Gladiator refueling, c1940. The Gloster Gladiator is a British-built biplane fighter. It was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) (as the Sea Gladiator variant) and was exported to a number of other air forces during the late 1930s. Developed privately as the Gloster SS.37, … Read more
Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk (John5199 Photo) (Mike Freer – Touchdown-aviation Photo) (Alan Wilson Photo) Curtiss P-40B Warhawk (Serial No. 284), Reg. No. G-CDWH, The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Airworthy. (Alan Wilson Photos) Curtiss P-40C Warhawk (Serial No. 41-13357), c/n 16161, Reg. No. G-CIIO, The Fighter Collection, Duxford, Cambridgeshire. Airworthy. After a period of US Army Air … 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
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
