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Aircraft of the French Air Force and Naval Aviation during the Phoney War and the Battle of France, and aircraft of the Free French Air Force (FAFL).
The list is not complete and includes obsolete aircraft used for training as well as prototype and pre-production aircraft.
List is in alphabetical order by manufacturer or designer.
Aircraft of the Armée de l'Air, 1939–1940 and Armée de l'Air de l'Armistice, 1940–1942 edit
Amiot edit
ANF Les Mureaux edit
- ANF Les Mureaux 113/115/117 reconnaissance aircraft
Arsenal edit
- Arsenal VG-33 light wooden-built fighter for rapid production, only few built and used.[1]
Besson edit
- MB.411 submarine-borne floatplane operated by French submarine Surcouf
Blériot-SPAD edit
- Blériot-SPAD S.510 biplane fighter, mostly used for training by the time of the beginning of the war.[2]
Bloch edit
- MB.81 transport
- MB.131 reconnaissance/bomber
- MB.150 series fighters
- MB.162 long-range heavy bomber
- MB.174 reconnaissance
- MB.175 bomber
- MB.200 bomber
- MB.210 bomber
- MB.220 transport[7]
- MB.700 prototype light fighter, one completed[8]
Breguet edit
- Bre.270 observation
- Bre.482 heavy bomber, single complete prototype destroyed in German air raid in 1942
- Bre.521 "Bizerte" - flying boat
- Bre.691 twin engine light ground attack bomber
- Bre.693 Bre.691 with different engines
- Bre.695 Bre.693 with larger engines
CAMS edit
Caproni (Italian) edit
- Caproni Ca.164 trainer
- Caproni Ca.313 bomber
Caudron edit
- C.272 Luciole liaison
- C.400 Phalène liaison
- C.445 Goeland liaison/transport[9]
- C.600 Aiglon liaison
- C.630 Simoun transport[10]
- C.714 Cyclone light fighter[11]
Curtiss (American) edit
de Havilland (British) edit
- DH.82 Tiger Moth trainer
- DH.89 Dragon Rapide transport
Dewoitine edit
- Dewoitine D.338 transport
- D.500/D.501/D.510 fighter[13]
- D.520 fighter[14]
- D.720 reconnaissance
- HD.730 reconnaissance floatplane
Douglas edit
- DB-7 bomber
Farman/SNCAC edit
- F.190 transport
- F.222 heavy bomber/transport[15]
- F.223 heavy bomber
- F.224 transport
- F.402 transport and observation
- NC.150 high altitude bomber prototype
- NC.223 heavy bomber
- NC.410 floatplane prototype
- NC.470 trainer
- NC-600 twin-engine fighter prototype[16]
Gourdou-Leseurre edit
- GL-812 HY ship-borne observation floatplane
- GL-813 HY ship-borne observation floatplane
- GL-832 HY ship-borne observation floatplane
Hanriot edit
- H.436 trainer
- H.16 liaison
- H.185 liaison
- H.232 advanced trainer
- H.180 trainer
- H.220 fighter-bomber
- H.230 trainer
- H.510 observation
Koolhoven (Netherlands) edit
- FK.58 fighter, about 13 pressed into action in May 1940
Latécoère edit
- Laté.298 torpedo bomber floatplane
- Laté.299 reconnaissance/torpedo bomber landplane
- Laté.302 long range flying boat
- Laté.381 long range flying boat
- Laté.523 long range flying boat
- Laté.570 bomber
- Laté.611 long range flying boat
- Laté.631 long range flying boat
Levasseur edit
- PL.10 torpedo bomber
- PL.101 torpedo bomber
- PL.14 torpedo bomber floatplane
- PL.15 torpedo bomber floatplane
Lioré et Olivier edit
- LeO C.30 Cierva observation autogyro
- LeO H-43 observation float plane
- Lioré et Olivier LeO.206 biplane heavy night bomber
- LeO H-246 flying boat
- LeO H-257 torpedo bomber/bomber float plane
- LeO.451 bomber
- LeO H-470 flying boat
Loire edit
- Loire 46 fighter
- Loire 501 liaison
- Loire 70 flying boat
- Loire 130 flying boat
- Loire 210 ship-borne fighter floatplane[17]
Loire-Nieuport edit
SFCA Maillet edit
- Maillet 201 liaison
Martin (American) edit
- M.167 bomber
Mauboussin edit
- Mauboussin M.123 trainer
Morane-Saulnier edit
Nardi (Italian) edit
- Nardi FN.305 trainer/liaison
Nieuport-Delage edit
North American (American) edit
Potez edit
- Potez 25 observation
- Potez 29 transport
- Potez 33 liaison
- Potez 39 observation
- Potez 230 light fighter prototype[21]
- Potez 402 transport
- Potez 452 ship-borne flying boat
- Potez 542 bomber/reconnaissance
- Potez 56 trainer/transport
- Potez 585 liaison
- Potez 63 series, fighter, light bomber/reconnaissance (1200+ built)
- Potez 650 transport
- Potez 662 transport[24]
- Potez-CAMS 141 flying boat
Romano/SNCASE edit
Roussel edit
- Roussel R-30 light fighter-bomber prototype[26]
Salmson edit
- Salmson Cricri elementary trainer[27]
- Salmson Phrygane liaison
SNCAO edit
SNCASE edit
Vought (American) edit
- V.156 carrier-borne dive bomber
Wibault-Penhoët edit
- Wibault 283T transport
- Wibault 360T transport
Aircraft of the Free French Air Forces, 1940-1945 edit
- Airspeed Oxford Mk.II trainer
- Amiot 143M bomber
- Avro Anson bomber/trainer
- Avro York VIP transport
- Beechcraft Model 18 liaison/trainer
- Bell P-39N/Q fighter[30]
- Bell P-63A Kingcobra fighter
- Bloch MB.81 liaison[31]
- Bloch MB.131 bomber
- Bloch MB.174 reconnaissance
- Bloch MB.175 bomber
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress transport
- Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV & Mk.V light bomber
- CANT Z.1007 Alcione transport[32]
- Caudron C.270 Luciole liaison
- Caudron C.400 Phalène liaison
- Caudron C.445 Goeland transport
- Caudron C.600 Aiglon liaison
- Caudron C.630 Simoun trainer[33]
- Cessna UC-78 Bobcat liaison
- Consolidated PBY Catalina patrol bomber
- Cunliffe-Owen OA.1 transport[34]
- Curtiss Hawk 75 fighter
- Curtiss P-40E/F/N fighter
- de Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth liaison
- de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth trainer
- Dewoitine D.520 fighter
- Douglas SBD Dauntless/A-24 bomber[35]
- Douglas DB-7 medium bomber
- Douglas Boston medium bomber
- Farman F.220 transport[36]
- Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber[37]
- Hawker Hurricane Mk.I/Mk.IIB fighter[38]
- Howard DGA-15 liaison[32]
- Lioré et Olivier LeO 451 transport[39]
- Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior transport
- Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar transport[36]
- Lockheed Hudson patrol bomber
- Lockheed F-4/F-5 Lightning photo reconnaissance[40]
- Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber
- Martin 167 bomber/liaison[41]
- Martin 187 Baltimore bomber
- Martin B-26B/G Marauder medium bomber
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.230 trainer
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.315 trainer
- Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 fighter[31]
- North American NAA-57 trainer
- North American B-25C/H Mitchell medium bomber
- North American F-6C Mustang photo reconnaissance[40]
- Piper L-4 observation[42]
- Polikarpov Po-2 liaison[43]
- Potez 25 trainer[33]
- Potez 29 transport
- Potez 540 liaison[34]
- Potez 631 reconnaissance[44]
- Potez 63.11 reconnaissance/bomber[45]
- Potez 650 transport
- Republic P-47D Thunderbolt fighter-bomber[30]
- Supermarine Spitfire fighter[46]
- Supermarine Walrus rescue amphibian
- Universal L-7 liaison
- Stinson Reliant liaison/training[47]
- Stinson 105 Voyager liaison
- Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer
- Vultee A-35 Vengeance dive bomber
- Vickers Wellington maritime patrol[35]
- Westland Lysander Mk.III liaison
- Yakovlev Yak-1 & 1M fighter
- Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter[48]
- Yakovlev Yak-7B fighter
- Yakovlev Yak-9 & 9T fighter[48]
See also edit
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References edit
Citations edit
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 9, 14
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 15, 18–19
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 22
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 23–24
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 32–33
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 43––46
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 41
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 50–51
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 12
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 116
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 59
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 66
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 85
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 92
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, pp. 35, 55
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 106–107
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 117
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 123
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018, p. 143
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 127
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 144
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 149
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 149–150
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 18
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, pp. 51–52
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, pp. 164–165
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 25
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 53
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018, p. 167
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 180
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 176
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 165
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 167
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 164
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 213
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 187
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 183
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 162
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 201
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 202
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 166
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 207
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 175
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 189
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 170
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 172
- ^ Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 185
- ^ a b Ehrengardt 2018a, p. 209
Bibliography edit
- Ehrengardt, Christian-Jacques (2018). Encyclopédie des Avions de Chasse Français, 1939-1942. Aix-en-Provence: Caraktère. ISBN 978-2-916-403-151.
- Ehrengardt, Christian-Jacques (2018a). Camouflages et Marques de l'Aviation Française, 1939-1945. Aix-en-Provence: Caraktère. ISBN 978-2-916-403-182.