List of Aircraft of Canada's Air Forces - RAF Style Designations

RAF Style Designations

Aircraft were given names, and individual variants designated numerically as mark I, mark II, etc. as per RAF practice. Impressed types usually retained their commercial names such as with the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 or the Waco AQC-6. For more information on specifics of the system, see British military aircraft designation systems

• Airspeed Horsa - troop carrier glider
• Airspeed Oxford - twin engine training aircraft (navigation, bombing, radio)
• Armstrong Whitworth Atlas - army co-operation biplane
• Armstrong Whitworth Siskin - single seat biplane fighter
• Auster AOP6 - air observation aircraft
• Avro Avian - light utility/trainer aircraft
• Avro Tutor - biplane trainer
• Avro Prefect - biplane trainer
• Avro Anson - twin engined medium bomber/trainer
• Avro Lancaster - heavy bomber
• Avro Lincoln - cancelled bomber prototype
• Barkley-Grow T8P-1 - light twin engined cabin monoplane similar to Beechcraft Expediter
• Beechcraft Expeditor - light twin utility/trainer aircraft
• Beechcraft Mentor - single engine ab initio flight trainer
• Bellanca Pacemaker - transport monoplane
• Blackburn Shark - biplane torpedo bomber
• Boeing 247D - twin engine cabin transport
• Boeing Fortress - long-range patrol bomber
• Boeing Bomarc - nuclear tipped surface to air missile
• Brewster Bermuda - dive bomber
• Bristol Beaufort - twin engine monoplane torpedo bomber/strike/minelaying aircraft
• Bristol Blenheim - twin engine monoplane medium bomber/gunnery trainer
• Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke - Canadian version of Blenheim bomber
• Bristol Freighter - cargo transport with nose clamshell doors
• Canadair C-5 North Star - One off North Star powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial piston engines
• Canadair North Star - modified RR Merlin engined C-54 built in Canada
• Canadair Sabre - improved Canadian variant of North American F-86 Sabre single seat jet fighter
• Canadair Silver Star - improved Canadian variant of Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star two seat jet trainer
• Canadair Cosmopolitan - improved Canadian variant of Convair CV-240 twin engine transport
• Canadian Vickers Vancouver - twin engine biplane patrol flying boat
• Canadian Vickers Vanessa - cabin biplane, trials only
• Canadian Vickers Varuna - twin engine biplane patrol flying boat
• Canadian Vickers Vedette - patrol biplane flying boat - first aircraft designed for Canadian conditions
• Canadian Vickers Velos - patrol floatplane, trials only
• Canadian Vickers Vigil - training/utility biplane
• Canadian Vickers Vista - monoplane development of Vedette
• Cessna Crane - light twin engine monoplane trainer
• Consolidated Catalina/Canso maritime patrol monoplane seaplane
• Consolidated Courier - 1920s biplane trainer
• Consolidated Liberator maritime patrol bomber, helped defeat u-boats by closing Atlantic Gap
• Consolidated Privateer - Liberator variant
• Curtiss Kittyhawk - fighter
• Curtiss Seamew - utility seaplane
• Curtiss Tomahawk - fighter
• Curtiss-Reid Rambler - biplane trainer/light utility aircraft
• de Havilland Comet - jet transport/airliner - Canada was first military to operate jet transports
• de Havilland Dragonfly - light twin engined biplane transport
• de Havilland Fox Moth - light single engined biplane transport - built in Canada
• de Havilland Hawk Moth - light single engined monoplane transport
• de Havilland Hornet Moth - light single engined monoplane transport
• de Havilland Mosquito - twin-engined unarmed medium/heavy bomber
• de Havilland Moth - single engined biplane trainer
• de Havilland Puss Moth - light single engined monoplane transport
• de Havilland Sea Hornet - twin engined naval fighter
• de Havilland Tiger Moth - single engined biplane trainer developed from DH Moth, and extensively modified from UK variant
• de Havilland Vampire - early jet fighter with pod and boom layout
• de Havilland Canada Chipmunk - two-seat monoplane elementary trainer
• Douglas Boston - twin engined medium bomber
• Douglas Dakota - twin engined transport, glider tug and utility aircraft used until 1980s
• Douglas Bolo - medium/heavy bomber developed from DC-2 airliner
• Fairchild 51 - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush aircraft
• Fairchild 71 - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush aircraft
• Fairchild Argus- high wing single engine monoplane transport/utility aircraft
• Fairchild Cornell - elementary trainer
• Fairchild FC-2L Razorback - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush plane
• Fairchild KR-34 - light utility biplane
• Fairchild Super 71 - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush aircraft
• Fairchild Flying Boxcar - cargo transport
• Fairey Albacore - torpedo bomber that should have replaced the Fairey Swordfish
• Fairey Battle - medium bomber used as a trainer and target tug in Canada
• Fairey Swordfish - torpedo bomber biplane
• Fleet Fawn - biplane elementary trainer
• Fleet Finch - biplane elementary trainer
• Fleet Fort - monoplane intermediate/radio trainer
• Fleet Freighter - twin-engine biplane transport/bush plane
• Fokker Super Universal - single engine monoplane transport/utility/bush plane
• Ford Trimotor - tri-motor corrugated metal transport
• General Aircraft Hotspur - troop glider
• Gloster Meteor - early jet fighter (trials)
• Grumman Goblin - Canadian built version of Grumman FF-1 fighter
• Grumman Goose - twin engine amphibious utility aircraft
• Handley Page Hampden - twin engine medium bomber
• Handley Page Harrow - twin engine heavy bomber/transport
• Handley Page Halifax - four engine heavy bomber
• Hawker Audax - army co-operation biplane
• Hawker Hart - single engine light bomber
• Hawker Hind - single engine light bomber, improved Hart
• Hawker Hurricane - monoplane fighter
• Hawker Tempest - monoplane fighter
• Hawker Tomtit - biplane trainer
• Hawker Typhoon - monoplane ground attack/fighter
• Keystone Puffer - biplane crop duster
• Lockheed Electra Junior - twin engine transport
• Lockheed Electra - twin engine transport similar to Beechcraft Expediter
• Lockheed Hudson - twin engine bomber developed from Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
• Lockheed Lodestar - twin engine transport
• Lockheed Ventura - twin engine patrol bomber
• Martin Baltimore - twin engine medium bomber
• Noorduyn Norseman - single engine monoplane light utility/tranport/bush aircraft
• North American Mitchell - medium bomber
• North American NA-26 - one-off single engine monoplane trainer, prototype for Harvard series
• North American NA-44 - one-off two seat light attack monoplane similar to Harvard but with much larger engine
• North American Mustang - single seat fighter
• North American Harvard - two seat single engine monoplane advanced trainer
• North American Yale - two seat single engine monoplane intermediate/radio trainer
• Northrop Delta - single engine monoplane transport also used for coastal patrols
• Northrop Nomad - single engine two seat light bomber similar to Fairey Battle
• Percival Prentice - trainer evaluated 1948 but lost out to DHC Chipmunk
• Piasecki H-21A and 44A - utility/rescue helicopter
• Pitcairn Mailwing - utility biplane
• Schweizer 2-33A - training glider used by Royal Canadian Air Cadets
• Sikorsky H-5 - small utility/rescue helicopter
• Stearman Kaydet - Second World War single seat biplane elementary trainer
• Stinson Voyager - light utility monoplane
• Supermarine Spitfire - fighter
• Supermarine Stranraer - patrol flying boat built in Canada under license
• Supermarine Walrus - fleet spotter/utility seaplane
• Taylorcraft Auster Mk. IV and V - observation and liaison aircraft
• Vickers Viking - 1920s biplane patrol seaplane
• Vickers Wellington - twin engined medium bomber/coastal patrol aircraft
• Waco AQC-6 - single engines utility biplane impressed at start of war
• Waco CG-15 - transport glider, improved Gadrian, 1 example acquired only
• Waco Hadrian - transport glider
• Westland Lysander - army co-operation monoplane also used as target tug - built in Canada
• Westland Wapiti - army co-operation biplane