List of aircraft of the Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)

This is a list of aircraft of the Army Air Corps of the United Kingdom.

Aircraft

From its founding in 1942:

• Airspeed Horsa
• Auster AOP.6
• General Aircraft Hamilcar
• General Aircraft Hotspur
• Taylorcraft Auster
• Waco Hadrian
• Waco YKC and ZGC-7 - Two civil aircraft purchased by the British Army in Egypt and used by the Long Range Desert Group.

Since its separation from the Royal Air Force in 1957

Helicopters

• Agusta A109 - Retired
• AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat
• Bell 212
• Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin
• Eurocopter Squirrel - Retired
• Saunders-Roe Skeeter - Retired
• Sud Aviation Alouette II - Retired
• Westland Apache
• Westland Gazelle
• Westland Lynx - Retired
• Westland Scout - Retired
• Westland Sioux - Retired[1]

Fixed wing

• Auster AOP.9 - Retired
• Britten-Norman Islander/Defender - Transferred to the RAF 2019
• de Havilland Canada Beaver - Retired
• de Havilland Canada Chipmunk - Retired
• Grob Tutor light fixed wing trainer (at 674 Squadron, DEFTS and Army flying Grading)
• Slingsby Firefly T-67M260 (at 674 Squadron, DEFTS) - Retired, withdrawn December 2010.
• Slingsby Firefly 160 (at Army Flying Grading) - Retired, withdrawn December 2010.

Weapons and munitions

Missiles

• SS.11 - Obsolete air-to-surface, wire-guided anti-tank missile.
• AGM-114 Hellfire - Air-to-surface, laser-guided anti-tank missile.
• BGM-71 TOW - Air-to-surface, anti-tank guided missile.

Unguided rockets

• 68-mm SNEB air-to surface rockets - retired
• CRV7 air-to-surface rockets

Cannon

• M230 Chain Gun

Machine guns

• FN MAG

See also

• List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force
• List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm

Notes and references

1. licence built Bell design by both Westland and Agusta

External links

• Army Air Corps at official British Army website