WW2 Aircraft - 1940
1940 saw continued gains by the Axis powers - across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific - much of it made possible through air support.
There are a total of 34 WW2 Aircraft of 1940 in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1940
The D3A series of aircraft (dubbed "Val" by the Allies) were thought to be all but extinct when the war in the Pacific began....
1940
The Amiot 354 bomber and reconnaissance platform was a quite capable aircraft when war broke out over France. The system had ...
1940
The Arado Ar 240 was designed to an RLM 1938 response to replace the twin engine, two seat Messerschmitt BF 110 Zerstorer hea...
1940
The idea of twin fuselage aircraft was always in the minds of military aircraft engineers throughout the Second World War. Co...
1940
The Avro Manchester was a semi-successful attempt by the Avro firm to fulfill Air Ministry Specification P.13/36. The specifi...
1940
The XFL "Airabonita" was a Bell Aircraft Company product developed in parallel with the P-39 Airacobra, a land-based USAAF de...
1940
In the same way that the XFM-1 Airacuda was a "different" sort of aircraft, the Bell company itself was "different sort" of a...
1940
The Blohm and Voss (also written as "Blohm und Voss" or "Blohm & Voss") Bv 138 was a German flying boat that saw quantitative...
1940
The Bristol Beaufort enjoyed a strong run between the war years of 1940-1943 as the primary British torpedo bomber in service...
1940
With the introduction of the N1 (may also be known as the CC.2), Italy became only the second nation in the world to achieve ...
1940
By the middle of the 1930's America was no longer blind to the real possibility that the war would sooner or later be waged a...
1940
The C-47 Skytrain was a product of the Douglas Aircraft Company and is regarded as the best transport of World War 2. Interes...
1940
The Focke-Wulf brand Fw 189 Uhu (translated to "Owl") was of the most peculiar aircraft design for the German Luftwaffe in th...
1940
The Grumman F4F Wildcat was the unsung hero of the Allied Pacific Theater campaign in the early years of World War 2. Often o...
1940
While the Lancaster Heavy Bomber will always be more identifiable in terms of the British night bombing campaigns of World Wa...
1940
Design of the Lavochkin La-5 series of low-to-medium altitude fighters was spurred on by a need for equipment capable of matc...
1940
The LaGG-3 piston-engine pursuit fighter (the LaGG in the designation coming from "Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Goudkov") was one of th...
1940
The Martin-produced Maryland series was classified as a light bomber and saw action as a photographic reconnaissance plane th...
1940
The North American B-25 Mitchell series of medium bombers went on to become one of the classic American aircraft designs to e...
1940
The North American P-51 Mustang proved an invaluable addition to the Allied cause in the latter half of World War 2. The syst...
1940
The Petlyakov Pe-2 began arriving in small numbers on the East Front in the summer of 1941. The system owed its pedigree from...
1940
When covering the range of topics concerning aviation in World War 2, it becomes accepted practice to overlook the developmen...
1940
The gangly-looking Short Sterling formed the backbone of heavy bomber groups for the RAF from the Battle of Britain on throug...
1940
The Su-1 (and related Su-3) fighter aircraft were short-lived prototype developments of the Soviet Sukhoi concern - essential...
1940
The OS2U Kingfisher was a product of the Vought aircraft firm, appearing initially as the VS.310 design to which the United S...
1940
The Westland Whirlwind was a most capable design that might have seen even better service numbers were it not for the choice ...
1940
Often overshadowed by its contemporaries in the West (to include the Supermarine Spitfire, North American P-51 Mustang, Messe...
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