Aircraft
Click on an aircraft period:
Jet aircraft (1948 – 1992)
1948 Hawker Sea Hawk |
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Navy buy 420, far more than any other jet aircraft type |
1951 Hawker Hunter |
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Made a “Super Priority” aircraft for the RAF and NATO – nearly 2000 built |
1961 Hawker P.1127 |
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Prototype of the unique vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing aircraft |
1966 Hawker Siddeley Harrier |
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The world’s first operational VTOL aircraft – wins air race between New York and London city centres in 1969 |
1971 Hawker Siddeley Hawk |
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Last all-British aircraft to go into service with the RAF and still operational today |
1972 Hawker Siddeley Harrier AV8A |
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First foreign-built military aircraft bought by the USA since 1918 |
1979 Hawker Siddeley Sea Harrier |
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Crucial to success in the Falklands conflict |
1983 BAe/McDonnell Douglas Harrier II |
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Second generation Harriers for RAF, US Marines, Spain and Italy |