RNZAF Wartime Aircraft
The following aircraft types were used by the RNZAF during the Second World War, between the dates of the
3rd of September 1939 and the 2nd of September 1945
• Airspeed Oxford
• Avro 626
• Avro Anson
• Beech C-17L Staggerwing (impressed into RNZAF)
• Blackburn Baffin
• British Aircraft Swallow II (impressed into RNZAF)
• Chance-Vought Corsair
• Consolidated Catalina
• Curtiss Kittyhawk
• De Havilland DH60 Moth all but one (impressed)
• De Havilland DH80A Puss Moth (impressed)
• De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth (24 impressed)
• De Havilland DH83 Fox Moth (impressed)
• De Havilland DH84 Dragon (impressed)
• De Havilland DH86 Express (impressed)
• De Havilland DH89 Rapide/Dominie (5 impressed)
• De Havilland DH94 Moth Minor (impressed)
• Douglas Dauntless
• Douglas C47 Dakota
• Fairey Gordon
• Foster-Wickner Wicko GM1 (impressed)
• General Aircraft Monospar Jubilee (impressed)
• Grumman Avenger
• Hawker Hind
• Lockheed Hudson
• Lockheed Lodestar
• Lockheed Ventura
• Lockheed Harpoon
• Miles Whitney Straight (impressed)
• Miles Hawk (impressed)
• Miles Magister (impressed)
• North American Harvard
• Percival Gull Four (absorbed from Air Department)
• Percival Vega Gull (impressed)
• Porterfield 35W (impressed)
• Rearwin 9000 Sporster (impressed)
• Short Singapore
• Short Sunderland
• Supermarine Walrus
• Vickers Vildebeeste
• Vickers Vincent
• Vickers Wellington
• Waco (impressed)
Number Used
299
3
23
1
29
1
424
56
297
23
4
335
1
2
3
14
5
68
49
41
1
1
48
63
94
9
139
4
3
4 variants
2
202
1
1
1
4
4
4
11
39
62
30
3 variants
Role
Trainer (multi-use)
Biplane Trainer
Reconnaisance Trainer
Communications
Biplane Trainer
Communications at 1EFTS
Fighter-bomber
Maritime patrol/Rescue
Fighter, then Advance Trainer
Elementary Trainer
Communications
Elementary Trainer
Communications in 42 Sqn
Trainers at E&W School
Recon/Training/Comms
Recon/Training/Comms
Communications/Army Co-op
Dive Bomber (25 Sqn)
Transport (40 Sqn)
Biplane Trainer
Communications
Communications
Dive Bomber/Target Tug
Trainer/Army Co-op
Bomber Recon/Transport
Transport
Bomber Reconnaisance
Bomber Reconaisance
Communications
Elementary Trainers
Elementary Trainers
Advanced Trainer
Communications
Communications
Communications
Communications/Army Co-op
Maritime Patrol
Maritime Patrol
Maritime Trainers
Reconnaisance/Trainer
Reconnaisance/Trainer
Medium Bombers
Communications
Aircraft Used in the New Zealand Squadrons of the Royal Air Force
Aircraft Type
• Avro Lancaster
• Brewster Buffalo
• Bristol Beaufighter
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• Bristol Blenheim
• De Havilland Mosquito
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• Hawker Hurricane
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• Hawker Tempest
• Hawker Typhoon
• Short Stirling
• Short Sunderland
• Supermarine Spitfire
• Vickers Wellington
Squadron
No 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No 488 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No's 488 and 489 (NZ)
Sqns RAF
No 487 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No's 487 and 488 (NZ)
Sqns RAF
No's 486 and 488 (NZ)
Sqns RAF
No 486 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No 486 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No 490 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No 485 (NZ) Sqn RAF
No 75 (NZ) Sqn RAF
Role
Heavy Bomber
Fighter
Night Fighter and Coastal
Command respectively
Light Bomber
Light Bomber and Night Fighter
respectively
Fighter and ground attack
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Fighter and ground attack
Fighter and ground attack
Heavy Bomber
Coastal Command patrols
Fighter and ground attack
Medium Bomber
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