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 ^[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
• 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 ^[7] & 95 BE.2E ^[8]
• 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 ^[9]
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6
• Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 - 1 aircraft
• 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 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. ^[12]
• Borel hydro-monoplane - 8 or more used. ^[12] 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 ^[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 Nighthawk - 1 aircraft
• Tellier T.3 Flying-Boat
• Westland N.1B - 2 aircraft
• Wight Baby - 3 aircraft
• Wight Bomber - 1 aircraft
• Wight Quadruplane - 1 aicraft
• 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

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.

Bibliography

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