List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service explained

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

Aircraft in squadron use

• AD Flying Boat - 29 built^[1]
• Airco DH.4
• Airco DH.6
• Airco DH.9
• Armstrong Whitworth FK.3
• Avro 503
• Avro 504^[2]
• Beardmore WB.III
• Blériot XI^[3]
• Bréguet Type III^[4]
• Bréguet 4
• Bréguet 5
• Bristol Boxkite
• Bristol TB.8
• Bristol Scout
• Caudron G.3 140 used as trainers^[5]
• Caudron G.4 46 used as bombers^[6]
• 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
• 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
• 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^[7] & 95 BE.2E^[8]
• Short Admiralty Type 74
• 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
• Alcock Scout - 1 built and used operationally^[9]
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 - 4 used^[10]
• Avro Type D
• Avro 500 - 6 used.^[11]
• Avro 501 - 1 used.^[11]
• Avro 510
• Avro 519
• Avro 528
• Avro 529
• Avro Pike
• Beardmore W.B.1
• Beardmore W.B.1a
• Beardmore WB.III
• Beardmore W.B.V
• Blackburn Blackburd
• Blackburn Triplane
• Blackburn Twin Blackburn
• Blériot Parasol -12 used.^[12]
  • Borel hydro-monoplane - 8 or more used.^[12] see Etablissements Borel Burgess Gunbus
• Caproni Ca.4
• Curtiss C-1 Canada
• Curtiss T Wanamaker Triplane
• Dyott Bomber
• FBA Type H
• Fairey F.2
• Flanders B.2
• Felixstowe F.1
• Handley Page Type G
• Mann Egerton Type H
• Nieuport IV
• Norman Thompson N.1B
• Parnall Scout
• Pemberton-Billing P.B.9
• Port Victoria P.V.1
• Port Victoria P.V.2
• Port Victoria P.V.7
• Port Victoria P.V.8
• Port Victoria Grain Griffin
• Royal Aircraft Factory BE.8^[8]
• Royal Aircraft Factory H.R.E.2
• Royal Aircraft Factory RE.5
• Royal Aircraft Factory RE.7
• 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 S.60 Short S.63 Folder Seaplane Short S.69 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
• Sopwith Bat Boat
• Sopwith Bee
• Sopwith D.1
• Sopwith H.T. Seaplane (Hydro Tractor) biplane, also known as the Cromarty
• Sopwith Sociable
• Spencer biplane
• SPAD VII
• Tellier T.3 Flying-Boat
• Westland N.1B
• Wight Twin

Airships

• His Majesty's Airship No. 1 "Mayfly"
• 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
• Astra-Torres airship
• SS class airship
• SSP class airship
• SST class airship
• SSZ class airship
• Coastal class airship
• C Star class airship
• NS class airship

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

Machine guns

• 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Lewis gun
• 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Vickers machine 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

• Book: Thetford, Owen. British Naval Aircraft Since 1912. London. Putnam. 1994. 0-85177-861-5.

Notes and References

1. Thetford (1994), p. 396.
2. Thetford (1994), pp. 31–35.
3. Thetford (1994), p. 405.
4. Thetford (1994), p. 408.
5. Thetford (1994), p. 415.
6. Thetford (1994), p. 77.
7. Thetford (1994), p. 402.
8. Thetford (1994), p. 403.
9. Thetford (1994), p. 397.
10. Thetford (1994), p. 398.
11. Thetford (1994), p. 400.
12. Thetford (1994), p. 406.