This list of military aircraft of the United States (naval) includes prototype, pre-production and operational types designations under the 1922 United States Navy aircraft designation system

1922 United States Navy aircraft designation system

Until 1962, the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps used a system to designate their aircraft that included information about a craft's role and its manufacturer.-The system:...

, which was used by the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

, the United States Marine Corps

United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...

, and the United States Coast Guard

United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...

.

Prototypes are normally prefixed with "X" and often unnamed (note that these are not the same as the experimental X-planes, which are not generally expected to go into production), while pre-production models are usually prefixed "Y".

For aircraft designations prior to the adoption of this system, see List of military aircraft of the United States (1909-1919).

For aircraft designations under the U.S. Army Air Force/U.S. Air Force USAF system or the post-1962 Tri-Service system

1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system

The 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system is a unified designation system introduced by the United States Department of Defense on 18 September 1962 for all the U.S. military aircraft. Prior to this date, each armed service used their own nomenclature system...

 and aircraft currently in service, see List of military aircraft of the United States.

Airborne early warning, 1952-1962

• WF Tracer - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
   (redesignated E-1 in 1962)
• W2F Hawkeye - Grumman (redesignated E-2 in 1962)
• XWU - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• WV Warning Star - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
   (redesignated EC-121 in 1962)

Commissioned vessels, 1922-1935

This series of four airships (two one-offs and two production Akron-class vessels) were the only airships in American history to be commissioned as ships of the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

. ZR-2 is missing from the list as that airship (the British R-38) crashed and was destroyed before delivery.

• USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
  USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)
  USS Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships. It was built in 1922-1923 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, and first flew in September 1923. It developed the Navy's experience with rigid airships, even making the first crossing of North America by airship...
  
  
• USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
  USS Los Angeles (ZR-3)
  The second USS Los Angeles was a rigid airship, designated ZR-3, that was built in 1923-1924 by the Zeppelin factory in Friedrichshafen, Germany, where it was originally designated LZ-126...
  
  
• USS Akron (ZRS-4)
  USS Akron (ZRS-4)
  USS Akron was a helium-filled rigid airship of the United States Navy that was lost in a weather-related accident off the New Jersey coast early on April 4, 1933, killing 73 of the 76 crew and passengers on board...
  
  
• USS Macon (ZRS-5)
  USS Macon (ZRS-5)
  USS Macon was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting. She served as a "flying aircraft carrier", launching Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk biplane fighters. In service for less than two years, in 1935 Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off California's Big Sur coast,...
  
  

Airborne Early Warning, 1952-1962

• ZWG - Goodyear
  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
  The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery....
  
  
• ZWN Reliance - Goodyear

Patrol, 1947-1962

• ZPG - Goodyear
  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
  The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery....
  
  
• ZPK - Goodyear
• ZP2K - Goodyear
• ZP3K - Goodyear
• ZP4K - Goodyear
• ZP5K - Goodyear
• ZPM - Goodyear
• ZPN - Goodyear
• ZP2N - Goodyear

Scout, 1954-1962

• ZSG
  K class blimp
  The K-class non-rigid airship was a class of blimps built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio for the United States Navy. These blimps were powered by two radial air-cooled engines mounted on outriggers on the side of the control car that hung under the envelope...
  
   - Goodyear
  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
  The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery....
  
  
• ZS2G - Goodyear

Training, 1947-1962

• ZTG - Goodyear
  Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
  The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery....
  
  
• ZTL - Goodyear

Anti-submarine, 1946-1962

In 1946, the "S for Scout" designation was replaced by "S for anti-Submarine", however, the numbers in the 'S' series were not re-started.

• • SF - used in the Scout sequence
• S2F Tracker - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
  • SU - used in the Scout sequence
• XS2U - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  

Attack, 1946-1962

• AD Skyraider - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
   (redesignated A-1 in 1962)
• A2D Skyshark
  A2D Skyshark
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Francillon, René J. McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920. London:Putnam, 1979. ISBN 0-370-00050-1.* Heinemann, Edward, H. and Rausa, Rosario. Combat Aircraft Designer. London: Jane's Publishing Co., 1980. ISBN 0-7106-0040-2....
  
   - Douglas
• A3D Skywarrior - Douglas (redesignated A-3 in 1962)
• A4D Skyhawk - Douglas (redesignated A-4 in 1962)
• AF Guardian - Grumman
• A2F Intruder - Grumman (redesignated A-6 in 1962)
• AH Phantom II - McDonnell Douglas
  McDonnell Douglas
  McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It formed from a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967. McDonnell Douglas was based at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport...
  
   (redesignated F4H, then F-4 in 1962)
• AJ Savage
  AJ Savage
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Grossnick, Roy A. . Washington, DC:Naval Historical Center, 1995. ISBN 0-945274-29-7.* Swanborough, Gordon and Peter M. Bowers. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London:Putnam, Second edition, 1976. ISBN 0 370 10054 9.* Wilson, Stewart. Combat...
  
   - North American
  North American Aviation
  North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service...
  
  
• A2J Super Savage - North American
• A3J Vigilante - North American (redesignated A-5 in 1962)
• AM Mauler
  AM Mauler
  |-See also:-References:NotesFootnotesBibliography* Andrade, John. U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0 904597 22 9...
  
   - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• AU Corsair - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• A2U Cutlass - Vought

Bomber, 1931-1943

• BD Havoc - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• BG
  Great Lakes BG
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Donald, David . The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Aerospace Publishing. 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.* Grossnik, Roy A. Dictionary of Americal Naval Aviation Squadrons: Volume 1 The History of VA, VAH, VAK, VAL, VAP and VFA Squadrons. Washington DC: Naval Historical Centre,...
  
   - Great Lakes
• B2G - Great Lakes
• BM
  Martin BM
  |-References:* John Andrade, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0-904597-22-9 * The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft , 1985, Orbis Publishing-External links:...
  
   - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• BN - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• BT
  Northrop BT
  |-Notable mentions in media:Northrop BT-1s appeared in pre-war yellow wing paint schemes in the Technicolor film Dive Bomber starring Errol Flynn.-See also:-References:NotesBibliography...
  
   - Northrop
  Northrop Corporation
  Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a few of these have entered service.-History:Jack...
  
  
• B2T - Northrop
• BY Fleetster - Consolidated
  Consolidated Aircraft
  The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became...
  
  
• B2Y - Consolidated

Bomber fighter, 1934-1937

• BFB - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• BFC Goshawk - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• BF2C Goshawk
  BF2C Goshawk
  -External links:*** Popular Science, July 1934...
  
   - Curtiss

Bomber torpedo, 1942-1945

• BTC - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• BT2C - Curtiss
• BTD Destroyer
  BTD Destroyer
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* A link to the official USN BuAer ACP sheet from USN archives on the Douglas BTD-1 Destroyer.* A three-view plan of the BTD-1 Destroyer.*...
  
   - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• BT2D Destroyer II - Douglas
• BTK - Kaiser-Fleetwings
• BTM Mauler - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  

Foreign-Built Bomber Aircraft, 1910-1962

• Airco DH.4 - Airco
  Airco
  The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited was established in 1912 by George Holt Thomas at The Hyde in Hendon, north London, England.-Geoffrey de Havilland:...
  
   and De Havilland
  De Havilland
  The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...
  
  
• Airco DH.9A
  Airco DH.9A
  The Airco DH.9A was a British light bomber designed and first used shortly before the end of the First World War. Colloquially known as the "Ninak" , it served on in large numbers for the Royal Air Force following the end of the war, both at home and overseas, where it was used for colonial...
  
   - Airco
  Airco
  The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited was established in 1912 by George Holt Thomas at The Hyde in Hendon, north London, England.-Geoffrey de Havilland:...
  
   and De Havilland
  De Havilland
  The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...
  
  
• Caproni Ca.44 - Caproni
• Macchi M.8 - Macchi

Target, 1942-1946

• TDC Cadet - Culver
• TD2C Cadet - Culver
• TD3C - Culver
• TD4C - Culver
• TDD - Radioplane
• McDonnell TD2D Katydid
  McDonnell TD2D Katydid
  |-References:*This article contains material that originally came from the placard at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.-External links:*...
  
   - McDonnell
• TD3D - Frankfort
• TD4D - Radioplane
• TD3D - Frankfort
• TD4D - Radioplane
• TDL Airacobra - Bell
  Bell Aircraft
  The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters...
  
  
• TDN
  Naval Aircraft Factory TDN
  |-References:CitationsBibliographyFurther reading...
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• TD2N Gorgon
  TD2N Gorgon
  The Gorgon was an aerial ram or air-to-air missile powered by a turbojet engine and equipped with radio controls and a homing device. The Gorgon, developed by the U.S...
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
• TD3N Gorgon - Naval Aircraft Factory
• TDR - Interstate
• TD2R - Interstate
• TD3R - Interstate

Unified sequence, 1945-1962

• KDA Firebee - Ryan
  Ryan Aeronautical Company
  The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California in 1934. Part of Teledyne after 1969, Northrop Grumman purchased Teledyne Ryan in 1999...
  
  
• KDB Cardinal - Beechcraft
  Beechcraft
  Beechcraft is an American manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports. Previously a division of Raytheon, it has been a brand of Hawker Beechcraft since 2006....
  
   (redesignated MQM-61 in 1962)
• KD2B
  AQM-37 Jayhawk
  -References:***This article contains material that originally came from the web article by Greg Goebel, which exists in the Public Domain....
  
   - Beechcraft
• Curtiss-Wright KDC - Curtiss-Wright
  Curtiss-Wright
  The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....
  
  
• KD2C Snipe - Curtiss-Wright
• KD3C Snipe - Curtiss-Wright
• KDD Katydid - McDonnell
  McDonnell Aircraft
  The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded on July 16, 1939 by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and manned spacecraft including the Mercury capsule...
  
   (formerly TD2D - redesignated KDH in 1946)
• KDG Snipe - Globe
• KD2G Firefly - Globe
• KD3G Snipe - Globe
• KD4G Quail - Globe
• KD5G - Globe
• KD6G Firefly - Globe
• KDH Katydid - McDonnell
• KDM Plover - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• KDN Gorgon IIB - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• KD2N Gorgon - Martin/Naval Aircraft Factory
• KDR Quail - Radioplane
• KD2R Quail - Radioplane (redesignated MQM-36A Shelduck in 1962)
• KD4R - Radioplane
• KDT Teal - Temco
  Temco Aircraft
  The Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company , also known as Temco Aircraft Corporation, was a U.S.-based manufacturing company located in the Dallas, TX area...
  
  
• KDU Regulus - Chance Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• KD2U Regulus II - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  

Fighter, 1910-1922

• Aeromarine AS
  Aeromarine AS
  -Bibliography:* Taylor, J. H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions: London. p. 29...
  
   - Aeromarine
  Aeromarine
  The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company was an early American aircraft manufacturer founded by Inglis M. Upperçu which operated from 1914 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 it was known as the Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation.-History:...
  
  
• Curtiss 18
  Curtiss 18
  -References:NotesBibliography* Angelucci, Enzo and Peter Bowers. The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft from 1917 to the Present. New York: Orion Books, 1985. ISBN 0-517-56588-9....
  
   - Curtiss
• Curtiss HA Dunkirk Fighter - Curtiss
• Loening M-8
  Loening M-8
  |-See also:...
  
   - Loening
• Naval Aircraft Factory TF
  Naval Aircraft Factory TF
  |-Summary of Flight Trials - Oct. 1920 - Mar. 1921:-RPM/Speed Readings Obained During Flight Trials on Oct. 13, 1920 :-Bibliography:...
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• Naval Aircraft Factory TS - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• Vought VE-7
  Vought VE-7
  |-References:*; accessed 13 May 2007-External links:*...
  
   - Vought

Fighter, 1922-1962

• FA - General Aircraft
• F2A - Brewster
  Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
  The Brewster Aeronautical Corporation was a North American defense contractor that operated from the 1930s until the end of World War II.It started existence as an aircraft division of Brewster & Co., a company that originally sold carriages and had branched into automobile bodies and airplane parts...
  
  
• F3A Corsair - Brewster
• FB - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• F2B
  Boeing F2B
  |-See also:-Bibliography:*Eden, Paul and Sophn Moeng. The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. London: Amber Books Ltd., 2002. ISBN 0-7607-3432-1.*Jones, Lloyd S. U.S. Naval Fighters. Fallbrook CA: Aero Publishers, 1977. ISBN 0-8168-9254-7....
  
   - Boeing
• F3B Seahawk - Boeing
• F4B - Boeing
• F5B
  F5b
  F5b is a type of remote control electric model aircraft contest that consists of doing as many laps as possible between 2 poles 150 meters apart in 200 seconds followed by 10 minutes of thermalling, and then landing on a 30 meter landing circle. The laps must be made while gliding only, no motor...
  
   - Boeing
• F6B - Boeing
• F7B - Boeing
• XF8B - Boeing
• FC - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• F2C
  F2c
  f2c is the name of a program to convert Fortran 77 to C code, developed at Bell Laboratories. The standalone f2c program was based on the core of the first complete Fortran 77 compiler to be implemented, the "f77" program by Feldman and Weinberger...
  
   - Curtiss
• F3C - Curtiss
• F4C - Curtiss
  • F5C - skipped
• F6C Hawk
  F6C Hawk
  |-See also:-References:*Eden, Paul and Soph Moeng. The complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. London:Amber Books, 2002.*Swanborough, Gordon and Peter M. Bowers. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London:Putnam, Second edition, 1976. ISBN 0-370-10054-9....
  
   - Curtiss
• F7C Seahawk
  F7C Seahawk
  |-References:*Eden, Paul and Soph Moeng, eds. London: Amber Books Ltd., 2002, ISBN 0-7607-3432-1.*Jones, Lloyd S. U.S. Naval Fighters. Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1977, pp. 50–52. ISBN 0-8168-9254-7....
  
   - Curtiss
• F8C Falcon/Helldiver
  Curtiss Falcon
  The Curtiss Falcon is a family of military biplane aircraft built by the United States aircraft manufacturer Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company during the 1920s. Most saw service as part of the United States Army Air Corps as observation aircraft with the designations O-1 and O-11, or as the...
  
   - Curtiss
• F9C Sparrowhawk
  F9C Sparrowhawk
  |-See also:-External links:...
  
   - Curtiss
• XF10C Helldiver - Curtiss
• F11C Goshawk - Curtiss (later redesignated BFC)
• F12C Helldiver - Curtiss (later redesignated SBC)
• XF13C - Curtiss
• XF14C - Curtiss
• F15C - Curtiss
• XFD - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
  • F2D - skipped to avoid confusion with McDonnell F2D (later redesignated F2H)
• F3D Skyknight
  F3D Skyknight
  The Douglas F3D Skyknight, was a United States twin-engine, midwing jet fighter aircraft manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company in El Segundo, California. The F3D was designed as a carrier-based all-weather aircraft. It saw service with the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps...
  
   - Douglas (redesignated F-10 in 1962)
• F4D Skyray
  F4D Skyray
  The Douglas F4D Skyray was an American carrier-based supersonic fighter/interceptor built by the Douglas Aircraft Company...
  
   - Douglas (redesignated F-6 in 1962)
• F5D Skylancer
  F5D Skylancer
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Angelucci, Enzo. The American Fighter. Sparkford, Somerset, UK: Haynes Publishing Group, 1987. ISBN 0-85429-635-2....
  
   - Douglas
• F6D Missileer
  F6D Missileer
  The Douglas F6D Missileer was a proposed carrier-based US Navy fleet defense fighter aircraft, designed by Douglas Aircraft Company in response to a 1959 US Navy requirement...
  
   - Douglas
• FD
  FH Phantom
  The McDonnell FH Phantom was a twin-engined jet fighter aircraft designed and first flown during World War II for the United States Navy. The Phantom was the first purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier and the first jet deployed by the United States Marine Corps...
  
   - McDonnell
  McDonnell Aircraft
  The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded on July 16, 1939 by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and manned spacecraft including the Mercury capsule...
  
   (later redesignated FH)
• F2D Banshee - McDonnell (redesignated F2H on delivery)
• FF Fifi - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• F2F
  Grumman F2F
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Cacutt, Len, ed. “Grumman Single-Seat Biplane Fighters.” Great Aircraft of the World. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1989. ISBN 1-85435-250-4....
  
   - Grumman
• F3F
  Grumman F3F
  |-Popular culture:The F3F was featured as an "experimental fighter" in Warner Bros's Wings of the Navy .The F3F-2 was featured in the 1940 film Flight Command, starring Robert Taylor as a pilot whose work developing instrument landing systems helps his lost squadron return to NAS North...
  
   - Grumman
• F4F Wildcat
  F4F Wildcat
  The Grumman F4F Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that began service with both the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy in 1940...
  
   - Grumman
• XF5F Skyrocket
  XF5F Skyrocket
  |-Notable appearances in media:The XF5F Skyrocket featured in the Blackhawk comic books.-See also:-Bibliography:* Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Volume Four: Fighters. London: Macdonald & Co., 1961. ISBN 0-356-01448-7....
  
   - Grumman
• F6F Hellcat
  F6F Hellcat
  The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy service. Although the F6F resembled the Wildcat, it was a completely new design powered by a 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800. Some tagged it as the "Wildcat's big...
  
   - Grumman
• F7F Tigercat
  F7F Tigercat
  The Grumman F7F Tigercat was the first twin-engined fighter aircraft to enter service with the United States Navy. Designed for the new Midway-class aircraft carriers, the aircraft were too large to operate from earlier decks. Although delivered to United States Marine Corps combat units before...
  
   - Grumman
• F8F Bearcat
  F8F Bearcat
  The Grumman F8F Bearcat was an American single-engine naval fighter aircraft of the 1940s. It went on to serve into the mid-20th century in the United States Navy and other air forces, and would be the company's final piston engined fighter aircraft...
  
   - Grumman
• F9F Cougar
  F9F Cougar
  The Grumman F9F/F-9 Cougar was an aircraft carrier-based fighter aircraft for the United States Navy. Based on the earlier Grumman F9F Panther, the Cougar replaced the Panther's straight wing with a more modern swept wing...
  
   - Grumman (redesignated F-9 in 1962)
• F9F Panther
  F9F Panther
  |-Popular culture:The Panther played a prominent role in the 1954 movie Men of the Fighting Lady . The F9F was featured in the flying sequences in the 1954 movie The Bridges at Toko-Ri, although in the 1953 James A...
  
   - Grumman
• XF10F Jaguar
  XF10F Jaguar
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* DeMeis, Richard. "No Room to Swing a Cat." Wings, Volume 6, No. 4, August 1976.* Jones, Lloyd S. US Naval Fighters 1922 to 1980s. Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1977. ISBN 978-0816892549....
  
   - Grumman
• F11F Tiger - Grumman (redesignated F-11 in 1962)
• F12F - Grumman
• FG - Eberhart
• F2G
  Eberhart F2G
  |-See also:...
  
   - Eberhart
• FG Corsair
  F4U Corsair
  The Vought F4U Corsair was a carrier-capable fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and...
  
   - Goodyear
• F2G Corsair - Goodyear
• XFH
  Hall XFH
  -Bibliography:...
  
   - Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Corporation
• FH Phantom
  FH Phantom
  The McDonnell FH Phantom was a twin-engined jet fighter aircraft designed and first flown during World War II for the United States Navy. The Phantom was the first purely jet-powered aircraft to land on an American aircraft carrier and the first jet deployed by the United States Marine Corps...
  
   - McDonnell
• F2H Banshee
  F2H Banshee
  The McDonnell F2H Banshee was a single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft deployed by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps from 1948 to 1961. It was one of the primary American fighters used during the Korean War and was the only jet-powered fighter ever deployed by the Royal...
  
   - McDonnell (redesignated F-2 in 1962)
• F3H Demon
  F3H Demon
  The McDonnell F3H Demon was a subsonic swept-wing United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter aircraft. After severe problems with Westinghouse J40 engine that was ultimately abandoned, the successor to the McDonnell F2H Banshee served starting in 1956 redesigned with the J71 engine...
  
   - McDonnell (redesignated F-3 in 1962)
• F4H Phantom II - McDonnell (redesignated F-4 1962)
• FJ - Berliner-Joyce
• F2J - Berliner-Joyce
• FJ Fury
  FJ Fury
  The North American FJ-2/-3 Fury were a series of swept-wing carrier-capable fighters for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Based on the United States Air Force's F-86 Sabre, these aircraft featured folding wings, and a longer nose landing strut designed to both increase angle of attack upon...
  
   - North American (redesignated F-1 in 1962)
• XFL
  Loening XFL
  -Bibliography:...
  
   - Loening
• XFL Airabonita - Bell
  Bell Aircraft
  The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters...
  
  
• F2L Kingcobra - Bell
• XF3L - Bell
• FM Wildcat
  F4F Wildcat
  The Grumman F4F Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter aircraft that began service with both the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy in 1940...
  
   - General Motors
• F2M Wildcat - General Motors
• F3M Bearcat - General Motors
• FN - Seversky
• FO Lightning - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
  
• FR Fireball
  FR Fireball
  The Ryan FR Fireball was a mixed-power fighter aircraft designed by Ryan Aeronautical for the United States Navy during World War II. It was the Navy's first aircraft with jet propulsion. Only 66 aircraft were built before Japan surrendered in August 1945. The FR-1 Fireball equipped a single...
  
   - Ryan
  Ryan Aeronautical Company
  The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California in 1934. Part of Teledyne after 1969, Northrop Grumman purchased Teledyne Ryan in 1999...
  
  
• XF2R Dark Shark
  XF2R Dark Shark
  -See also:-Bibliography:* Ginter, Steve. Ryan FR-1 Fireball and XF2R-1 Darkshark, Naval Fighters Number 28. Simi Valley, CA: Ginter Books, 1995. ISBN 0-942612-28-0....
  
   - Ryan
• FS Spitfire - Supermarine
  Supermarine
  Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer that became famous for producing a range of sea planes and the Supermarine Spitfire fighter. The name now belongs to an English motorboat manufacturer.-History:...
  
   (designation reserved but never assigned)
• Northrop XFT
  Northrop XFT
  |-See also:-References:*Angelucci, Enzo and Peter M. Bowers. The American Fighter: The Definitive Guide to American Fighter Aircraft From 1917 to the Present, New York: Orion Books, 1987, ISBN 0-517-56588-9....
  
   - Northrop
  Northrop Corporation
  Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a few of these have entered service.-History:Jack...
  
  
• F2T Black Widow - Northrop
• Vought VE-7
  Vought VE-7
  |-References:*; accessed 13 May 2007-External links:*...
  
   Bluebird - Chance Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• FU
  Vought FU
  - References :* Jones, Lloyd S. U.S. Naval Fighters. Fallbrook CA: Aero Publishers, 1977, ISBN 0-8168-9254-7), pp. 53-54.* Swanborough, Gordon and Bowers, Peter. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London:Putnam, Second edition, 1976. ISBN 0 370 10054 9....
  
   - Chance Vought
• F2U - Chance Vought
• F3U - Chance Vought
• F4U Corsair
  F4U Corsair
  The Vought F4U Corsair was a carrier-capable fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and...
  
   - Chance Vought
• XF5U - Chance Vought
• F6U Pirate
  F6U Pirate
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1988, ISBN 0-07607-0904-1....
  
   - Chance Vought
• F7U Cutlass
  F7U Cutlass
  The Vought F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a highly unusual, semi-tailless design, allegedly based on aerodynamic data and plans captured from the German Arado company at the end of World War II, though Vought...
  
   - Chance Vought
• F-8 Crusader
  F-8 Crusader
  The Vought F-8 Crusader was a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft built by Vought for the United States Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps, replacing the Vought F7U Cutlass...
  
   - Chance Vought
• F8U-3 Crusader III - Chance Vought
• FV
  F6F Hellcat
  The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft developed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy service. Although the F6F resembled the Wildcat, it was a completely new design powered by a 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800. Some tagged it as the "Wildcat's big...
  
   - Canadian Vickers (designation reserved but never assigned)
• XFV
  Lockheed XFV
  -See also:-References:NotesCitationsBibliography* Allen, Francis J. "Bolt upright: Convair's and Lockheed's VTOL fighters". Air Enthusiast , Volume 127, January/February 2007, pp. 13–20. ISSN 0143-5450....
  
   - Lockheed
• F2W - Wright
• F3W Apache - Wright
• XFY Pogo - Convair
  Convair
  Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft, and went on to produce a number of pioneering aircraft, such as the Convair B-36 bomber, and the F-102...
  
  
• F2Y Sea Dart
  F2Y Sea Dart
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Jones, Lloyd S. U.S. Fighters: Army-Air Force 1925 to 1980s. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers Inc., 1975. ISBN 0-8168-9200-0....
  
   - Convair (redesignated F-7 in 1962)

Foreign-Built Fighters, 1910-1962

• Bristol Bulldog
  Bristol Bulldog
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Andrews, C.F. The Bristol Bulldog . Leatherhead, Surrey, UK: Profile Publications Ltd., 1965.* Barnes, C.H. Bristol Aircraft Since 1910. London: Putnam, 1964....
  
   - Bristol Aeroplane Company
  Bristol Aeroplane Company
  The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aero engines...
  
  
• Handley Page HP 21 HPS - Handley Page
• Hanriot HD-1 - Hanriot
• Macchi M-5 - Macchi
• Nieuport 28
  Nieuport 28
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Cheesman E.F. Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford Publications, 1960, pp. 98–99....
  
   - Nieuport
  Nieuport
  Nieuport, later Nieuport-Delage, was a French aeroplane company that primarily built racing aircraft before World War I and fighter aircraft during World War I and between the wars.-Beginnings:...
  
  
• Parnall Panther
  Parnall Panther
  The Parnall Panther was a British carrier based spotter and reconnaissance aircraft designed and developed by Parnall and Sons in the latter years of the First World War, continuing in service until 1926...
  
   - Parnall
  Parnall
  Parnall was a British aircraft manufacturer, that evolved from a wood-working company before the First World War to a significant designer of military and civil aircraft into the 1940s. It was based in the west of England.-History:...
  
  
• Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
  Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
  The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was a British biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War. Although the first examples reached the Western Front before the Sopwith Camel and it had a much better overall performance, problems with its Hispano-Suiza engine, particularly the geared-output H-S...
  
  A - Royal Aircraft Factory
• Sopwith Camel
  Sopwith Camel
  The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter introduced on the Western Front in 1917. Manufactured by Sopwith Aviation Company, it had a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine, and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. Though difficult...
  
   - Sopwith

Bomb Glider

• LBD Gargoyle - McDonnell
• LBE
  Pratt-Read LBE
  -See also:-References:CitationsBibliography...
  
   - Pratt-Read / Naval Aircraft Factory
• LBP
  Piper LBP
  -See also:-References:CitationsBibliography...
  
   - Piper
• LBT
  Taylorcraft LBT
  -See also:-References:CitationsBibliography...
  
   - Taylorcraft

Trainer Glider, 1941-1945

• LNE
  Pratt-Read TG-32
  -See also:-Bibliography:...
  
   - Pratt-Read
• LNP Grasshopper  - Piper
• LNR Grasshopper - Aeronca
  Aeronca Aircraft
  Aeronca, contracted from Aeronautical Corporation of America, located in Middletown, Ohio, is a US manufacturer of engine components and airframe structures for commercial aviation and the defense industry...
  
  
• LNS
  Schweizer SGS 2-8
  The Schweizer SGS 2-8 is a United States two-seat, mid-wing, strut-braced, training glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York.The 2-8 was originally known simply as "The Schweizer Two-Place" when it first flew in June 1938...
  
   - Schweizer
• LNT Grasshopper - Taylorcraft

Transport Glider, 1941-1945

• LRA
  Allied Aviation LRA
  |-See also:-External links:*...
  
   - Allied
• LR2A - Allied
• LRG - AGA Aviation
• LRH - Snead
• LRN
  Bristol XLRQ
  |-See also:...
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• LR2N - Naval Aircraft Factory
• LRQ
  Bristol XLRQ
  |-See also:...
  
   - Bristol
• LRW - Waco Aircraft Company
  Waco Aircraft Company
  The Waco Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturer located in Troy, Ohio, USA. Between 1919 and 1947, the company produced a wide range of civilian biplanes....
  
  
• LR2W - Waco
• LR2W - Waco
• PS-2 - Franklin

Antisubmarine, 1951-1962

• HSL
  Bell HSL
  -References:NotesBibliography* Andrade, John M. U.S.Military Aircraft Designation and Serials since 1909. Leicester, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-904597-22-9....
  
   - Bell
  Bell Aircraft
  The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters...
  
  
• HSS-1 Seabat - Sikorsky
• HSS-2 Sea King - Sikorsky

Observation, 1944-1962

• HOE Hornet - Hiller
• HOG Rotorcycle - Gyrodyne
• HOK - Kaman
  Kaman Aircraft
  Kaman Aircraft is a U.S. aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation...
  
   (redesignated H-43 in 1962)
• HOS Hoverfly II - Sikorsky
• HO2S Dragonfly - Sikorsky
• HO3S Dragonfly - Sikorsky
• HO4S - Sikorsky (redesignated H-19 in 1962)
• HO5S - Sikorsky

Trainer, 1948-1962

• HTE Raven - Hiller
• HTK Huskie - Kaman
  Kaman Aircraft
  Kaman Aircraft is a U.S. aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation...
  
   (redesignated H-43 in 1962)
• HTL Sioux - Bell
  Bell Aircraft
  The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters...
  
   (redesignated H-13 in 1962)

Transport, 1944-1962

• HRB Sea Knight - Boeing-Vertol
  Boeing Helicopters
  Boeing Rotorcraft Systems is a US aircraft manufacturer, now part of Boeing Defense, Space & Security...
  
   (redesignated H-46 in 1962)
• HRH - McDonnell
• HRP Rescuer
  HRP Rescuer
  |-See also:-External links:* * *...
  
   - Piasecki
  Piasecki Helicopter
  The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was a designer and manufacturer of helicopters located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. The company was renamed Vertol Aircraft Corporation in the mid-1950s...
  
  
• HRS - Sikorsky
• HR2S - Sikorsky (redesignated H-37 in 1962)
• HR3S - Sikorsky (redesignated H-3 in 1962)

Utility, 1944-1949

• HJD Whirlaway - McDonnell (later redesignated HJH)
• HJH Whirlaway - McDonnell
• HJP - Piasecki
  Piasecki Helicopter
  The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was a designer and manufacturer of helicopters located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. The company was renamed Vertol Aircraft Corporation in the mid-1950s...
  
  
• HJS
  Sikorsky S-53
  |-See also:...
  
   - Sikorsky

Utility, 1950-1962

• HUK Huskie - Kaman
  Kaman Aircraft
  Kaman Aircraft is a U.S. aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation...
  
   (redesignated H-43 in 1962)
• HU2K Seasprite - Kaman (redesignated H-2 in 1962)
• HUL (redesignated H-13 in 1962)
• HUM - McCulloch
• HUP Retriever - Piasecki
  Piasecki Helicopter
  The Piasecki Helicopter Corporation was a designer and manufacturer of helicopters located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. The company was renamed Vertol Aircraft Corporation in the mid-1950s...
  
   (redesignated H-25 in 1962)
• HUS Seahorse - Sikorsky
  Sikorsky Aircraft
  The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut. Its parent company is United Technologies Corporation.-History:...
  
   (redesignated H-34 in 1962)
• HU2S Sea Guard - Sikorsky (redesignated H-52 in 1962)

Hospital, 1929-1942

• HE - Piper
• HL
  Loening OL
  |-See also:-References:* John Andrade, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0-904597-22-9...
  
   - Loening

Marine Expeditionary, 1922-1923

• EM
  Elias EM
  |-References:* John Andrade, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0-904597-22-9 * The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft , 1985, Orbis Publishing-See also:...
  
   - Elias
• NM - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  

Observation, 1922-1962

• EO - Elias
  Elias
  Elias is the Latin transliteration of the Greek name , which in turn is the Hellenized form of the , meaning "Yahweh is my God". Another form of Eliyahu in English is Elijah.The name belonged most notably to Elijah , the Hebrew prophet...
  
  
• HO - Huff Daland
• MO
  Martin MO
  |-References:* John Andrade, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0-904597-22-9 * The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft , 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2419...
  
   - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• M2O
  M2o
  m2ō, which stands for Made-2-Order, is a Guided Selling product built by Edgenet Inc. based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is used by the world's largest home products retailers such as Lowe's and The Home Depot and manufacturers such as Anderson, Pella, Hunter Douglas ,All Weather Windows and many...
  
   - Martin
• NO
• OB - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• O2B - Boeing
• OC Falcon - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
   (previously designated F8C)
• O2C Helldiver - Curtiss
• O3C Seagull - Curtiss
• OD - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• O2D - Douglas
• OE - Cessna
  Cessna
  The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are general aviation aircraft. Although they are the most well known for their small, piston-powered aircraft, they also produce business jets. The company is a subsidiary...
  
   (redesignated O-1 in 1962)
• OF - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• OJ
  Berliner-Joyce OJ
  |-See also:-References:...
  
   - Berliner-Joyce
• OK - Keystone
  Keystone Aircraft
  Keystone Aircraft Corporation was an early pioneer in airplane manufacturing. Headquartered in Bristol, Pennsylvania, it was formed as Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp in 1920 by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, but its name was quickly changed to Huff-Daland Aero Corp, then to the Huff-Daland Aero Company...
  
  
• OL
  Loening OL
  |-See also:-References:* John Andrade, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0-904597-22-9...
  
   - Loening/Keystone
  Keystone Aircraft
  Keystone Aircraft Corporation was an early pioneer in airplane manufacturing. Headquartered in Bristol, Pennsylvania, it was formed as Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp in 1920 by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, but its name was quickly changed to Huff-Daland Aero Corp, then to the Huff-Daland Aero Company...
  
  
• O2L - Loening
• OO - Viking
• OP
  Pitcairn OP
  |-References:* Polmar, Norman and Dana Bell. One Hundred Years of World Military Aircraft.. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59114-686-0....
  
   - Pitcairn-Cierva
• O2U Corsair
  O2U Corsair
  |-References:NotesBibliography* Eden, Paul and Soph Moeng. The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. London: Amber Books Ltd., 2002. ISBN 0-7607-3432-1....
  
   - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• O3U Corsair - Vought
• O4U - Vought
• O5U - Vought
• OY - Stinson
  Stinson Aircraft Company
  The Stinson Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturing company in the United States between the 1920s and the 1950s.-The Company:The Stinson Aircraft Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920 by aviator Edward “Eddie” Stinson, brother to Katherine Stinson. After five years of business...
  
  
• OZ - Pennsylvania Aircraft
• UO - Vought

Observation scout, 1935-1945

• OSE
  Edo OSE
  -See also:-External links:**...
  
   - Edo Aircraft Corporation
  EDO Corporation
  EDO Corporation was an American company, which was acquired by ITT Corporation in 2007. EDO designed and manufactured products for defense, intelligence, and commercial markets, and provided related engineering and professional services. It employed 4,000 people worldwide and had revenues of $715...
  
  
• OSN - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• OS2N Kingfisher - Naval Aircraft Factory
• XOSS
  Stearman XOSS
  |-See also:-External links:*...
  
   - Stearman
• OSU Corsair - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• OS2U Kingfisher
  OS2U Kingfisher
  The Vought OS2U Kingfisher was an American catapult-launched observation floatplane. It was a compact mid-wing monoplane, with a large central float and small stabilizing floats. Performance was modest, because of its light engine...
  
   - Vought

Foreign-Built Observation Aircraft, 1920-1962

• Fokker C.I
  Fokker C.I
  |-References:...
  
   - Fokker
  Fokker
  Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919....
  
  
• Romeo Ro.1 - Romeo
• Sopwith 1½ Strutter
  Sopwith 1½ Strutter
  The Sopwith 1½ Strutter was a British one or two-seat biplane multi-role aircraft of the First World War. It is significant as the first British-designed two seater tractor fighter, and the first British aircraft to enter service with a synchronised machine gun...
  
   - Sopwith

Patrol, 1910-1923

• Curtiss Model H
  Curtiss Model H
  The Curtiss Model H was a family of classes of early long-range flying boats, the first two of which were developed directly on commission in the United States in response to the ₤10,000 prize challenge issued in 1913 by the London newspaper, the Daily Mail, for the first non-stop aerial crossing...
  
   - Curtiss
• Curtiss HS
  Curtiss HS
  The Curtiss HS was a single-engined patrol flying boat built for the United States Navy during World War I. Large numbers were built from 1917 to 1919, with the type being used to carry out anti-submarine patrols from bases in France from June 1918...
  
   - Curtiss
• Curtiss NC
  Curtiss NC
  -References:NotesBibliography* Holmes, Tony. Jane's Vintage Aircraft Recognition Guide. London: Harper Collins, 2005. ISBN 0-0071-9292-4.* Steirman, Hy and Glenn D. Kittler. The First Transatlantic Flight, 1919, . New York: Richardson & Sterman, 1986. ISBN 0-931933-19-0.* Wagner, Ray. American...
  
   - Curtiss
• Felixstowe F5L
  Felixstowe F5L
  -See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Bruce, J.M. " Flight, 2 December 1955, pp. 842—846.* Bruce, J.M. " Flight, 16 December 1955, pp. 895—898.* Bruce, J.M. " Flight, 23 December 1955, pp. 929—932....
  
  

Patrol, 1923-1962

• PB Flying Fortress - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• P2B Superfortress - Boeing
• PD - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• P2D - Douglas
• P3D - Douglas
• PH
  Hall PH
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Donald, David .American Warplanes of World War II. London: Aerospace, 1995. ISBN 1 874023 72 7.* Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War: Volume Five: Flying Boats. London: Macdonald, 1962. ISBN 356 01449 5....
  
   - Hall
• P2H - Hall
• PJ
  General Aviation PJ
  -References:* * Bowers, Peter M. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press, 1990, p. 495. ISBN 0-87021-792-5....
  
   - General Aviation
  General aviation
  General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...
  
  
• PK - Keystone
• PM - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• P2M - Martin
• P3M
  P3M
  Particle-Particle-Particle Mesh is a Fourier-based Ewald summation method to calculate potentials in N-body simulations.The potential could be the electrostatic potential among N point charges i.e. molecular dynamics, the gravitational potential among N gas particles in e.g. smoothed particle...
  
   - Martin
• P4M Mercator
  P4M Mercator
  |-See also:-References:* Dorr, Robert F. and Richard R. Burgess. "Ferreting Mercators". Air International, October 1993, Vol.45, No. 4. ISSN 0306-5634. pp. 215–222....
  
   - Martin
• P5M Marlin
  P5M Marlin
  |- See also :- References :NotesBibliography* Andrade, John, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0 904597 22 9.* Barth, Bruce D., "The Martin P5M 'Marlin'". Pacific Aero Press, 1994....
  
   - Martin (redesignated P-5 in 1962)
• P6M SeaMaster
  P6M SeaMaster
  The Martin P6M SeaMaster, built by the Glenn L. Martin Company, was a 1950s strategic bomber flying boat for the United States Navy that almost entered service; production aircraft had been built and Navy crews were undergoing operational conversion, with a service entry about six months off, when...
  
   - Martin
• P7M SubMaster - Martin
• PN
  Naval Aircraft Factory PN
  The Naval Aircraft Factory PN was a series of open cockpit American flying boats of the 1920s and 1930s. A development of the Felixstowe F5L flying boat of the First World War, variants of the PN were built for the United States Navy by Douglas, Keystone Aircraft and Martin.-Development and...
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• P2N - Naval Aircraft Factory
  • P3N - skipped
• P4N - Naval Aircraft Factory
• PO Warning Star - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
  
• PS - Sikorsky
• P2S - Sikorsky
• PV-1 Ventura - Lockheed
• PV-2 Harpoon - Lockheed
• P2V Neptune - Lockheed (redesignated P-2 in 1962)
• P3V Orion - Lockheed (redesignated P-3 in 1962)
• PY - Consolidated
  Consolidated Aircraft
  The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became...
  
  
• P2Y - Consolidated
• P3Y - Consolidated (redesignated PBY before delivery)
• XP4Y Corregidor - Consolidated
• P5Y - Consolidated
• P6Y - Convair
  Convair
  Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft, and went on to produce a number of pioneering aircraft, such as the Convair B-36 bomber, and the F-102...
  
  

Patrol bomber, 1935-1962

• XPBB Sea Ranger
  XPBB Sea Ranger
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography*...
  
   - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• PB2B Catalina - Boeing (PBY built by Boeing)
• PB2B-2 Canso - Boeing (PBY built by Boeing)
• PBJ Mitchell - North American
  North American Aviation
  North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service...
  
  
• PBM Mariner
  PBM Mariner
  The Martin PBM Mariner was a patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War period. It was designed to complement the PBY Catalina in service. A total of 1,366 were built, with the first example flying on 18 February 1939 and the type entering service in September 1940.-Design and...
  
   - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• PB2M Mars - Martin
• PBN Nomad - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• PBO Hudson - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
  
• PBS - Sikorsky
• PB2S Catalina - Boeing-Canada
• PBV Catalina - Canadian Vickers
  Vickers
  Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.-Early history:Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor &...
  
  
• PBY Catalina
  PBY Catalina
  The Consolidated PBY Catalina was an American flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s produced by Consolidated Aircraft. It was one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of World War II. PBYs served with every branch of the United States Armed Forces and in the air forces and navies of many other...
  
   - Consolidated
  Consolidated Aircraft
  The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became...
  
   (formerly designated P3Y)
• PB2Y Coronado
  PB2Y Coronado
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Andrews, Hal. "" Naval Aviation News, Vol. 72, Issue no. 1, November-December 1989. ISSN 0028-1417.* Bridgeman, Leonard. “The Consolidated Vultee Model 29 Coronado.” Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1-85170-493-0.* Green, William. War...
  
   - Consolidated
• PB3Y - Consolidated
• PB4Y-1 Liberator - Consolidated
• PB4Y-2 Privateer - Consolidated (redesignated P-4 in 1962)

Patrol torpedo bomber, 1937-1962

• PTBH - Hall

Foreign-Built Patrol Aircraft, 1910-1962

• Donnet-Denhaut flying boat
• FBA Type H
  FBA Type H
  -External links:* *...
  
   - FBA
• Lévy-Le Pen HB-1 -
• Tellier T-3 Flying-Boat - a.k.a.Tellier 200 ch Hispano-Suiza
• Vickers Viking
  Vickers Viking
  -References:NotesBibliography* Andrews, C.F. and E.B. Morgan. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London: Putnam, 1988. ISBN 0-85177-815-1.* London, Peter. British Flying Boats. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7509-2695-3....
  
   - Vickers
  Vickers
  Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.-Early history:Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor &...
  
  

Racer, 1922-1928

• BR-1 - Bee Line
• BR-2 - Bee Line
• CR
  Curtiss CR
  |-See also:-External links:* *...
  
   - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• R2C - Curtiss
• R3C - Curtiss

Research Aircraft, 1910-1962

• Douglas D-558-1 Skystreak - Douglas
• Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket - Douglas
• Gallaudet D-1
• Gallaudet D-4

Rotorcycle, 1954-1959

• ROE Rotorcycle - Hiller
• RON Rotorcycle - Gyrodyne

Scout, 1922-1946

• SC - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• S2C - Curtiss
• S3C - Curtiss
• S4C
  S4C
  S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...
  
   - Curtiss
• SC Seahawk - Curtiss
• SDW - Dayton-Wright
• SE - Bellanca
  AviaBellanca Aircraft
  AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft design and manufacturing company. Prior to 1983 it was known as the Bellanca Aircraft Company...
  
  
• SF - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• SG - Great Lakes
• SL
  Loening SL
  -See also:...
  
   - Loening
• S2L - Loening
• SS - Sikorsky
• SU Corsair - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• XS
  Cox-Klemin XS
  -See also:...
  
   - Cox-Klemin

Scout bomber, 1934-1946

• SBA - Brewster
  Brewster Aeronautical Corporation
  The Brewster Aeronautical Corporation was a North American defense contractor that operated from the 1930s until the end of World War II.It started existence as an aircraft division of Brewster & Co., a company that originally sold carriages and had branched into automobile bodies and airplane parts...
  
  
• SB2A Buccaneer
  SB2A Buccaneer
  |-See also:-References:* Donald, David . American Warplanes of World War II. London: Aerospace,1995. ISBN 1-874023-72-7.* March, Daniel J.. British Warplanes of World War II. London: Aerospace,1998. ISBN 1-874023-92-1....
  
   - Brewster
• SBC Helldiver
  SBC Helldiver
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Andrade, John. U.S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909. Hinckley, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-904597-22-9....
  
   - Curtiss-Wright
  Curtiss-Wright
  The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....
  
  
• SB2C Helldiver
  SB2C Helldiver
  The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver was a carrier-based dive bomber aircraft produced for the United States Navy during World War II. It replaced the Douglas SBD Dauntless in US Navy service. Despite its size, the SB2C was much faster than the SBD it replaced...
  
   - Curtiss-Wright
• SB3C - Curtiss-Wright
• SBD Dauntless
  SBD Dauntless
  The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a naval dive bomber made by Douglas during World War II. The SBD was the United States Navy's main dive bomber from mid-1940 until late 1943, when it was largely replaced by the SB2C Helldiver...
  
   - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• SB2D Destroyer - Douglas
• SBF - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• SBF Helldiver - Fairchild
• SBG - Great Lakes (NOT Great Lakes BG
  Great Lakes BG
  |-See also:-Bibliography:* Donald, David . The Encyclopedia of World Aircraft. Aerospace Publishing. 1997. ISBN 1-85605-375-X.* Grossnik, Roy A. Dictionary of Americal Naval Aviation Squadrons: Volume 1 The History of VA, VAH, VAK, VAL, VAP and VFA Squadrons. Washington DC: Naval Historical Centre,...
  
  )
• SBN
  Naval Aircraft Factory SBN
  -See also:-References:* Swanborough, Gordon and Peter M. Bowers. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London: Putnam, Second edition 1976. ISBN 0-370-10054-9....
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• SBT - Northrop
  Northrop Corporation
  Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a few of these have entered service.-History:Jack...
  
  
• SBU Corsair
  SBU Corsair
  -References:*Swanborough, Gordon and Bowers, Peter M. United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. London:Putnam, 1976. ISBN 0 370 10054 9....
  
   - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• SB2U Vindicator
  SB2U Vindicator
  The Vought SB2U Vindicator was a carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role. Obsolescent at the outbreak of World War II, Vindicators still remained in service at the time of the Battle of Midway, but by 1943, all had been withdrawn...
  
   - Vought
• SB3U - Vought
• SBW Helldiver - Canadian Car & Foundry

Scout observation, 1934-1946

• SOC Seagull
  SOC Seagull
  -See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Bowers, Peter M. Curtiss Aircraft, 1907-1947. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1979. ISBN 0-370-10029-8....
  
   - Curtiss
  Curtiss-Wright
  The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....
  
  
• SO2C - Curtiss
• SO3C Seamew - Curtiss
• SOE Seagull - Bellanca
  AviaBellanca Aircraft
  AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft design and manufacturing company. Prior to 1983 it was known as the Bellanca Aircraft Company...
  
  
  • SOK - Fairchild (designation allocated but no aircraft built)
• SON Seagull - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• SOR Seagull - Ryan
  Ryan Aeronautical Company
  The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California in 1934. Part of Teledyne after 1969, Northrop Grumman purchased Teledyne Ryan in 1999...
  
  
  • SOU - skipped to avoid confusion with OSU
• SO2U - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  

Scout trainer, 1939-1948

• SNB Navigator - Beechcraft
  Beechcraft
  Beechcraft is an American manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports. Previously a division of Raytheon, it has been a brand of Hawker Beechcraft since 2006....
  
   (redesignated C-45 in 1962)
• SNC Falcon - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• SNJ Texan - North American
  North American Aviation
  North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service...
  
  
• SN2J - North American
• SNV Valiant - Vultee
  Vultee Aircraft
  The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent company in 1939 and had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1943 to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, or Convair.-History:...
  
  

Foreign-Built Scout Aircraft, 1920-1962

• Caspar U.1
  Caspar U.1
  |-See also:...
  
  
• Macchi M.16
  Macchi M.16
  |-See also:-References:*...
  
   - Macchi
• Sopwith Baby
  Sopwith Baby
  -See also:...
  
   - Sopwith

Torpedo, 1922-1935

• TB - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• CT - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• DT
  Douglas DT
  |-References:* René Francillon, "McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Since 1920: Volume I", ISBN 0-87021-428-4...
  
   - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• T2D - Douglas
• T3D - Douglas
• TE - Detroit
• FT - Fokker
• TG - Great Lakes
• MT - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• T2M - Martin
• T3M - Martin
• T4M - Martin
• T5M - Martin
• T6M - Martin
• TN - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• T2N - Naval Aircraft Factory
• ST - Stout

Torpedo bomber, 1935-1946

• TBD Devastator
  TBD Devastator
  The Douglas TBD Devastator was a torpedo bomber of the United States Navy, ordered in 1934, first flying in 1935 and entering service in 1937. At that point, it was the most advanced aircraft flying for the USN and possibly for any navy in the world...
  
   - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• TB2D Skypirate
  TB2D Skypirate
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Andrews, Harold: XTB2D -1. In: United States Naval Aviation News January 1982, pp. 20-21 * Francillon, René J. McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920. London: Putnam, 1979. ISBN 0-370-00050-1....
  
   - Douglas
• TBF Avenger
  TBF Avenger
  The Grumman TBF Avenger was a torpedo bomber developed initially for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and eventually used by several air or naval arms around the world....
  
   - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• TB2F - Grumman
• TB3F Guardian - Grumman
• TBG
  Great Lakes TBG
  |-See also:...
  
   - Great Lakes
• TBM Avenger - General Motors
  General Motors
  General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
  
  
• TBU Sea Wolf - Vought
  Vought
  Vought is the name of several related aerospace firms. These have included, in the past, Lewis and Vought Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace , Vought Aircraft Companies, and the current Vought Aircraft Industries. The first incarnation of Vought was established by Chance M...
  
  
• TBV Georgia - Vultee
  Vultee Aircraft
  The Vultee Aircraft Corporation became an independent company in 1939 and had limited success before merging with the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in 1943 to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, or Convair.-History:...
  
  
• TBY Sea Wolf
  TBY Sea Wolf
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Ginter, Steve, Bill Chana and Phil Prophett. Vought XTBU-1 & TBY-2 Sea Wolf . Simi Valley, CA: Ginter Books, 1995 . ISBN 0-942612-33-7.-External links:***...
  
   - Consolidated
  Consolidated Aircraft
  The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became...
  
  

Torpedo scout, 1943-1946

• TSF - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  

Foreign-Built Torpedo Aircraft, 1920-1962

• Blackburn Swift - Blackburn Aircraft
  Blackburn Aircraft
  Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century.-History:...
  
  
• Fokker FT - Fokker
  Fokker
  Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919....
  
  

Trainer, 1910-1922

• Aeromarine 39 - Aeromarine
  Aeromarine
  The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company was an early American aircraft manufacturer founded by Inglis M. Upperçu which operated from 1914 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 it was known as the Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation.-History:...
  
  
• Aeromarine 40
  Aeromarine 40
  The Aeromarine 40F was an American two-seat flying-boat training aircraft produced for the US Navy and built by the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company of Keyport, New Jersey. Fifty out of an original order for 200 were delivered before the end of World War I, with the remainder cancelled due to the...
  
   - Aeromarine
• Burgess H
  Burgess H
  -See also:...
  
  
• Burgess-Dunne - which one?
• Curtiss N-9
  Curtiss N-9
  -References:NotesBibliography* Bowers, Peter M. Curtiss Aircraft 1907–1947. London: Putnam, 1979. ISBN 0-370-10029-8.*...
  
   - Curtiss
• Curtiss JN-4
  Curtiss JN-4
  The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for the U.S...
  
   - Curtiss
• Curtiss MF - Curtiss

Trainer, 1922-1948

• NB
  Boeing NB
  -See also:...
  
   - Boeing
  Boeing
  The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
  
  
• N2B - Boeing
  • NC - skipped to avoid confusion with NC flying boats
• N2C Fledgling - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• NE Grasshopper - Piper
• HN - Huff Daland
• NH - Howard
• NJ - North American
  North American Aviation
  North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service...
  
  
• NK
  Keystone NK
  -External links:*...
  
   - Keystone
• NL - Langley
  • NM - skipped
• N2M - Martin
  • NN - skipped
• N2N
  N2n
  n2n is an open source Layer 2 over Layer 3 VPN application which utilises a peer-to-peer architecture for network membership and routing.Contrary to many other VPN programs, n2n can also connect computers which reside behind NAT routers. These connections are set up with help from a third computer...
  
   - Naval Aircraft Factory
  Naval Aircraft Factory
  The Naval Aircraft Factory was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I...
  
  
• N3N - Naval Aircraft Factory
  • N4N - reserved but not assigned
• N5N - Naval Aircraft Factory
• NP - Spartan
• NQ - Fairchild
• NR Recruit - Ryan
  Ryan Aeronautical Company
  The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California in 1934. Part of Teledyne after 1969, Northrop Grumman purchased Teledyne Ryan in 1999...
  
  
• NS - Stearman
  Stearman Aircraft
  Stearman Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer in Wichita, Kansas. Although the company designed a range of other aircraft, it is most known for producing the Model 75, which is commonly known simply as the "Stearman" or "Boeing Stearman"....
  
  
• N2S Kaydet - Stearman
• NT - New Standard
• N2T Tutor
  N2T Tutor
  |-References:NotesBibliography* John Andrade, U.S.Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909, Midland Counties Publications, 1979, ISBN 0 904597 22 9...
  
   - Timm
• NY
  Consolidated NY
  -External links:* accessed July 16, 2007* accessed July 16, 2007* accessed July 16, 2007* accessed July 16, 2007-See also:...
  
   - Consolidated
  Consolidated Aircraft
  The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became...
  
  
• N2Y - Consolidated
• N3Y - Consolidated
• N4Y - Consolidated

Trainer, 1948-1962

• TE
  TE
  Te or TE may refer to or be used for:* Te , a letter in the Cyrillic alphabet* Te , a Japanese kana* te, the ISO 639-1 language code for Telugu language* Tight end, a position in American football...
  
   - Edo
  Edo Aircraft Corporation
  Edo Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturing company known primarily for manufacturing pontoons for floatplanes.-History:...
  
  
• TF Trader - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
   (redesignated C-1 in 1962)
• TJ
  TJ
  -Places:* Tajikistan, ISO 3166-1 country code** .tj, the country code top level domain for Tajikistan* Tianjin, China* a popular nickname for Tijuana, Mexico-People:* Thomas Jones , a Welsh educationalist...
  
   - North American
  North American Aviation
  North American Aviation was a major US aerospace manufacturer, responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, the X-15 rocket plane, and the XB-70, as well as Apollo Command and Service...
  
   (SN2J? - cancelled)
• T2J Buckeye - North American (redesignated T-2 in 1962)
• T3J Sabreliner - North American (redesignated T-39 in 1962)
• TO Shooting Star - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
   (redesignated T-33 in 1962)
• TV Shooting Star - Lockheed
• TT Pinto - Temco
  Temco Aircraft
  The Texas Engineering & Manufacturing Company , also known as Temco Aircraft Corporation, was a U.S.-based manufacturing company located in the Dallas, TX area...
  
  
• T2V SeaStar - Lockheed (redesignated T-1 in 1962)

Transport, 1931-1962

• RA - Fokker
• RB Conestoga - Budd
  Budd Company
  The Budd Company is a metal fabricator and major supplier of body components to the automobile industry, and was formerly a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars during the 20th century....
  
  
• RC Kingbird - Curtiss
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
  Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...
  
  
• R2C - Curtiss (reserved but never assigned)
• R3C - Curtiss (reserved but never assigned)
• R4C Condor - Curtiss-Wright
  Curtiss-Wright
  The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....
  
  
• R5C Commando - Curtiss-Wright
• RD Dolphin - Douglas
• R2D - Douglas
• R3D
  Douglas DC-5
  The Douglas DC-5, the least known of the famous DC airliner series, was a 16-22 seat, twin-propeller aircraft intended for shorter routes than the DC-3 or DC-4. However, by the time it entered commercial service in 1940, many airlines were canceling orders; consequently, only five civilian DC-5s...
  
   - Douglas
• R4D - Douglas (redesignated C-47 in 1962)
• R5D - Douglas (redesignated C-54 in 1962)
• R6D - Douglas (redesignated C-118 in 1962)
• RE - Bellanca
• RK Envoy - Kinner
• R2K - Fairchild
• RM - Martin
  Glenn L. Martin Company
  The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...
  
  
• RN Reliant - Stinson
  Stinson Aircraft Company
  The Stinson Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturing company in the United States between the 1920s and the 1950s.-The Company:The Stinson Aircraft Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920 by aviator Edward “Eddie” Stinson, brother to Katherine Stinson. After five years of business...
  
  
• RO - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
  
• R2O - Lockheed
• R3O - Lockheed
• R4O - Lockheed
• R5O - Lockheed
• R6O - Lockheed (later redesignated R6V)
• R7O - Lockheed (later redesignated R7V)
• RQ Reliant - Fairchild
• R2Q - Fairchild
• R3Q Reliant - Fairchild
• R4Q Flying Boxcar - Fairchild
• RR - Ford
  Ford Motor Company
  Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
  
  
• RS - Sikorsky
  Sikorsky Aircraft
  The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut. Its parent company is United Technologies Corporation.-History:...
  
  
• RT - Northrop
  Northrop Corporation
  Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a few of these have entered service.-History:Jack...
  
  
• R6V - Lockheed (previously designated R6O)
• R7V-1 - Lockheed (previously designated R7O)
  • R7V-2 - Lockheed (turboprop powered version)
• R8V - Lockheed
  Lockheed Corporation
  The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
  
   (redesignated C-130 in 1962)
• RY - Consolidated
  Consolidated Aircraft
  The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the subsidiary was being closed by its parent corporation, General Motors. Consolidated became...
  
  
• R2Y
  Consolidated R2Y
  -See also:...
  
   - Consolidated
• R3Y Tradewind
  R3Y Tradewind
  -See also:-Bibliography:* Door, Robert F. "Beyond the Frontiers: Convair R3Y Tradewind 'The Flying LST'" Wings of fame, Volume 18, December 1999, Aerospace Publishing , ISSN 01361-2034...
  
   - Convair
  Convair
  Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft, and went on to produce a number of pioneering aircraft, such as the Convair B-36 bomber, and the F-102...
  
  
• R4Y Samaritan - Convair (redesignated C-131 in 1962)
• TA - Fokker
• B-314
  Boeing 314
  The Boeing 314 Clipper was a long-range flying boat produced by the Boeing Airplane Company between 1938 and 1941 and is comparable to the British Short S.26. One of the largest aircraft of the time, it used the massive wing of Boeing’s earlier XB-15 bomber prototype to achieve the range necessary...
  
   - Boeing

Transport, single engine, 1939-1941

• GB Traveler - Beechcraft
  Beechcraft
  Beechcraft is an American manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports. Previously a division of Raytheon, it has been a brand of Hawker Beechcraft since 2006....
  
  
• GH Nightingale - Howard
• GK - Fairchild
• GQ Reliant - Stinson
  Stinson Aircraft Company
  The Stinson Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturing company in the United States between the 1920s and the 1950s.-The Company:The Stinson Aircraft Company was founded in Dayton, Ohio, in 1920 by aviator Edward “Eddie” Stinson, brother to Katherine Stinson. After five years of business...
  
  

Utility, 1910-1931

• Curtiss Model E
  Curtiss Model E
  -References:* * *...
  
   - Curtiss
• Curtiss Model F - Curtiss
• Curtiss Model R
  Curtiss Model R
  |-See also:-References:*...
  
   - Curtiss

Utility, 1931-1955

• JA Norseman - Noorduyn
  Noorduyn
  The Noorduyn Aircraft Ltd., founded by Robert B. C. Noorduyn, was established in Canada in early 1934 by taking over the Curtiss-Reid factory outside of Montreal, Quebec. Work soon started on the Noorduyn Norseman I...
  
  
• JB Traveller - Beechcraft
  Beechcraft
  Beechcraft is an American manufacturer of general aviation and military aircraft, ranging from light single engine aircraft to business jets and light military transports. Previously a division of Raytheon, it has been a brand of Hawker Beechcraft since 2006....
  
  
• JC Kingbird - Curtiss-Wright
  Curtiss-Wright
  The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....
  
  
• JD Invader - Douglas
  Douglas Aircraft Company
  The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...
  
  
• JE - Bellanca
  AviaBellanca Aircraft
  AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft design and manufacturing company. Prior to 1983 it was known as the Bellanca Aircraft Company...
  
  
• JF Duck
  JF Duck
  |-References:NotesBibliography* Allen, Francis J. "A Duck Without Feathers". Air Enthusiast, Issue 23, December 1983—March 1984, pp. 46–55, 77—78. Bromley, Kent UK: Pilot Press, 1983....
  
   - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• J2F Duck - Grumman
• J3F Goose - Grumman
• J4F Widgeon - Grumman
• JH - Stearman-Hammond
• JK - Fairchild
• J2K - Fairchild
• JL - Columbia
• JM Marauder - Martin
• JO - Lockheed
• JQ - Fairchild
• J2Q - Fairchild
• JW - Waco
  Waco Aircraft Company
  The Waco Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturer located in Troy, Ohio, USA. Between 1919 and 1947, the company produced a wide range of civilian biplanes....
  
  
• J2W - Waco

Utility transport, 1935-1955

• JRB Expeditor - Beechcraft
• JRC Bobcat - Cessna
• JRF Goose - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
• JR2F Albatross - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
  
  • JRK - Nash-Kelvinator (designation reserved but never assigned)
• JRM Mars
  JRM Mars
  The Martin JRM Mars is a large, four-engined cargo transport seaplane originally designed and built in limited numbers for the U.S. Navy during the World War II era...
  
   - Martin
• JRS - Sikorsky
• JR2S Excalibur - Sikorsky

Utility, 1955-1962

• UC Otter - de Havilland Canada
  De Havilland Canada
  The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. company was an aircraft manufacturer with facilities based in what is now the Downsview area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
  
   (redesignated U-1 in 1962)
• U2C Beaver - de Havilland Canada
  De Havilland Canada
  The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. company was an aircraft manufacturer with facilities based in what is now the Downsview area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
  
   (designation not used)
• UF Albatross - Grumman
  Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation
  The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U.S. producer of military and civilian aircraft...
  
   (redesignated U-16 in 1962)
• UO Aztec - Piper Aircraft (redesignated U-11 in 1962)
• UV Hercules - Lockheed (redesignated in C-130 series)

Foreign-Built Utility Aircraft, 1920-1962

• de Havilland XDH-60 Moth
  De Havilland DH.60 Moth
  The de Havilland DH 60 Moth was a 1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft that was developed into a series of aircraft by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.-Development:The DH 60 was developed from the larger DH 51 biplane...
  
   - de Havilland
  De Havilland
  The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...
  
  
• de Havilland XDH-80 Puss Moth
  De Havilland Puss Moth
  |-See also:-References:* Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 . London, Putnam, 1974. ISBN 0-370-10010-7-External links:*...
  
   - de Havilland
  De Havilland
  The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...
  
  
• Dornier CsII - Dornier
• Junkers-Larsen JL-6 - Junkers-Larsen

See also

• List of military aircraft of the United States
• United States military aircraft serials
  United States military aircraft serials
  In the United States, all military aircraft display a serial number to identify individual aircraft. Because these numbers are located on the aircraft tail, they are sometimes referred to unofficially as "tail numbers"...
  
  

External links

• http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/o/dob104/aviation/us/index.html
• www.designation-systems.net/index.html
• home.att.net/~jbaugher
• www.aerofiles.com/aircraft.html
• National Museum of the US Air Force
• www.microworks.net/pacific/aviation
• fire.prohosting.com/hud607/uncommon