List of carrier-based aircraft

Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917.

List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders and submarines as well as dirigibles. Helicopters includes only those regularly operated from aircraft carriers and not those normally flown from other types of surface ships or land bases.

Pre-World War II

World War II

Post war

Helicopters

Future

Temporary carrier operations by non-carrier aircraft

(Aircraft must have landed or taken off from carrier deck, and excludes helicopters and aircraft transported by aircraft carrier.)

Cancelled Unflown

See also

• Carrier-based aircraft
• Naval aviation
• Aircraft carrier
• Escort carrier

Notes

References

Citations

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