List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service

This is a list of military aircraft used by the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).

Aircraft in squadron use

• AD Flying Boat - 29 built
• Airco DH.4
• Airco DH.6
• Airco DH.9
• Armstrong Whitworth FK.3
• Avro 503
• Avro 504
• Beardmore WB.III
• Blériot XI
• Bréguet Type III
• Bréguet 4
• Bréguet 5
• Bristol Boxkite
• Bristol TB.8
• Bristol Scout
• 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
• Curtiss JN-3
• Curtiss JN-4
• Curtiss Jenny
• Deperdussin TT
• Franco-British Aviation Type A, B and C
• Fairey IIIA (1917)
• Fairey Campania
• Fairey Hamble Baby
• Farman F.40
• Farman HF.20
• Farman MF.7 Longhorn
• Farman MF.11 Shorthorn
• Felixstowe F.2
• Felixstowe Porte Baby
• Felixstowe F.3
• Felixstowe F.5
• Flanders B.2
• Grahame-White Type XV
• Handley Page 0/100 and 0/400
• Mann Egerton Type B
• Morane-Borel monoplane
• Morane-Saulnier BB
• Morane-Saulnier Type L
• Nieuport VI
• Nieuport 10
• Nieuport 11
• Nieuport 12
• Nieuport 17
• Nieuport 17bis
• Nieuport 21
• Nieuport 24
• Nieuport Monoplane Seaplane - 12 aircraft
• Norman Thompson N.T.2B
• Norman Thompson N.T.4
• Parnall Hamble Baby Convert
• Pemberton-Billing PB.25
• REP Parasol
• Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2 - 4 BE.2As & 95 BE.2E
• Short Admiralty Type 74
• Short Admiralty Type 81
• Short Bomber
• Short Folder
• Short Type 166
• Short Type 184
• Short 310-A
• Short Type 320
• Short Type 827
• Short Type 830
• Sopwith Type 807
• Sopwith Type 860
• Sopwith B.1
• Sopwith Baby
• Sopwith 1½ Strutter
• Sopwith Camel
• Sopwith Cuckoo
• Sopwith Gunbus
• Sopwith Pup
• Sopwith Tabloid
• Sopwith Three-seater
• Sopwith Triplane
• Sopwith Two-Seat Scout
• Thomas Brothers T-2
• Vickers Type 32 Gunbus
• Voisin III
• White and Thompson No. 3
• White and Thompson Bognor Bloater
• Wight Converted Seaplane
• Wight Pusher Seaplane
• Wight Seaplane

Prototypes and other minor aircraft

• ASL Valkyrie
• AD Boat
• AD Scout
• AD Navyplane
• AD Seaplane Type 1000
• AD Sparrow
• Airco DH.5 - 1 aircraft
• Albatros B.II - 1 aircraft was imported into the United Kingdom before August 1914.
• Alcock Scout - 1 built and used operationally
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 - 1 aircraft
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 - 4 used
• Avro Type D
• Avro 500 - 6 used.
• Avro 501 - 1 used.
• Avro 510
• Avro 519
• Avro 523 Pike
• Avro 528
• Avro 529
• Beardmore W.B.1
• Beardmore W.B.1a
• Beardmore W.B.III
• Beardmore W.B.IV
• Beardmore W.B.V
• Blackburn Blackburd
• Blackburn G.P.
• Blackburn Triplane
• Blackburn Twin Blackburn
• Blackburn Type L
• Blériot Parasol -12 used.
• Borel hydro-monoplane - 8 or more used. see Etablissements Borel
• Breguet Chenu-engined biplane - 1 aircraft
• Breguet Tin Whistle Seaplane - 1 aircraft
• British Deperdussin Seagull
• Burgess Gunbus
• Caproni Ca.4
• Caudron Type H amphibian seaplanes - 2 aircraft
• Curtiss C-1 Canada
• Curtiss N - 6 aircraft
• Curtiss T Wanamaker Triplane
• DFW B.II - One aircraft imported into the United Kingdom before August 1914.
• DFW Mars - One aircraft imported into the United Kingdom before August 1914.
• Donnet L'Eveque Flying Boat
• Dyott Bomber
• Dyyott Tractor Monoplane
• Etrich Taube - Imported into the United Kingdom in 1912.
• FBA Type H
• Fairey F.2
• Fairey N.9
• Flanders B.2
• Felixstowe F.1
• Felixstowe Fury
• Handley Page HP.14
• Handley Page Type G
• Handley Page R/200 - 6 aircraft
• Mann Egerton Type H
• Morane-Saulnier G - 1 aircraft
• Nieuport IV
• Nieuport Tractor Biplane Scout
• Nieuport Triplane - 2 aircraft
• Norman Thompson N.1B
• Norman Thompson N.T.2C
• Parnall Scout
• Pemberton-Billing P.B.9
• Pemberton-Billing P.B.23 1 aircraft
• Pemberton-Billing P.B.25E - 1 aircraft
• Perry Beadle and Co T1 and T2 Tractor Biplane
• Phoenix P.5 Cork
• Porte Baby
• Port Victoria P.V.1
• Port Victoria P.V.2
• Port Victoria P.V.4
• Port Victoria P.V.5
• Port Victoria P.V.7
• Port Victoria P.V.8
• Port Victoria P.V.9
• Port Victoria Grain Griffin
• Robey-Peters Gun-Carrier - 1 aircraft
• Royal Aircraft Factory BE.8
• Royal Aircraft Factory C.E.1 - 2 aircraft
• Royal Aircraft Factory H.R.E.2
• Royal Aircraft Factory RE.5
• Sage Type 2
• Sage Type 3
• Sage Type 4
• Short S.27
• Short Tandem Twin (modified S.27)
• Short S.36 Tractor Biplane
• Short S.34 T1
• Short S.38 Trainer
• Short S.39 Triple Twin
• Short S.41 Tractor Biplane
• Short S.45 T5
• Short S.46
• Short S.47 Triple Tractor T4
• Short S.53 Admiralty No. 42
• Short 54 - 1 aircraft
• Short S.60
• Short S.63 Folder Seaplane
• Short S.69
• Short 79
• Short 80 - 1 aircraft
• Short S.81 Gunbus Seaplane
• Short S.82
• 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 - 2 aircraft
• Short Shirl - 4 aircraft
• Short-Wright Biplane - 1 aircraft
• Sloane-Day H.1 - 1 aircraft
• Sopwith Admiralty Type 137 - 2 aircraft
• Sopwith Bat Boat
• Sopwith Bee - 1 aircraft
• Sopwith D.1
• Sopwith H.T. Seaplane (Hydro Tractor) biplane, also known as the Cromarty
• Sopwith Hispano-Suiza Triplane - 2 aircraft
• Sopwith Sociable - 1 aircraft
• Sopwith Special torpedo seaplane Type C - 1 aircraft
• Spencer-Stirling biplane - 1 aircraft
• SPAD VII
• Sunbeam Bomber - 1 aircraft
• Supermarine Baby - 2 aircraft
• Supermarine Nighthawk - 1 aircraft
• Tellier T.3 Flying-Boat
• Westland N.1B - 2 aircraft
• Wight Baby - 3 aircraft
• Wight Bomber - 1 aircraft
• Wight Quadruplane - 1 aircraft
• Wright Triplane Flying Boat -
• Wight Twin - 4 aircraft

Airships

• His Majesty's Airship No. 1 "Mayfly"
• Astra-Torres airship
• Perseval PL-18, No.5 Airship - Built by in the United Kingdom in 1913. Built under licence by Vickers.
• Perseval PL-19, No.6 Airship
• His Majesty's Naval Airship No. 2 (Willows No. 4)
• No. 9r
• 23 class airship
• R23X class airship
• R.29
• R31 class airship
• R33 class airship
• SS class airship
• SSP class airship
• SST class airship
• SSZ class airship
• Coastal class airship
• C Star class airship
• NS class airship

Kites

• Man-lifting kite

Unmanned aerial vehicles

• British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I

List of weapons of the Royal Naval Air Service

Armoured Cars

• Delaunay-Belleville armoured car
• Lanchester armoured car
• Pierce-Arrow armoured lorry
• Rolls-Royce Armoured Car
• Seabrook armoured lorry
• Talbot armoured car

Free-fall bombs

• 20-lb (9-kg) Cooper bombs
• Ranken dart: Anti-Zeppelin weapon.

Rockets

• Le Prieur rocket: Unguided air-to-air rocket.

Aircraft guns

• 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Lewis gun
• 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Vickers machine gun
• Canon d'Infanterie de 37 modél 1916
• Davis gun

Torpedoes

• British 18-inch torpedo

See also

• List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm
• List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force
• List of aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps
• List of British airships

References

Bibliography

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