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 |