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Norway

  Fighter Aircraft
Curtiss H 75 Hawk
Gloster Gladiator
Hawker Fury I
Hawker Hurricane (RAF)
Supermarine Spitfire (RAF)


Bombers and Ground Attack Aircraft
includes torpedo bombers and light tactical attack aircraft

Caproni Ca 310
de Havilland Mosquito (RAF)
Fokker C.V E


Seaplanes and Amphibious Aircraft
Consolidated PBY5 Catalina (RAF)
Farman F.11 Shorthorn
Heinkel He 115
Northrop N3-PB
Short Sunderland (RAF)


Training Aircraft
Breda Ba.28
de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth


Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service
Rumpler Taube1 1912-1922Start, the first aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service.
Maurice Farman S.3 Longhorn 1 1914Roald Amundsen was originally a gift from Roald Amundsen to the Norwegian Army Air Service, but was lent to the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.1 6 1915-
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.2 3 1916-1924
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.3 4 1917-1924
Sop with Baby 18 1917-1931
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.4 7 1918-Some MF.1s were rebuilt to MF.4 to bring the number to seven
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.5 8 1918-1926
Nielsen & Winther 1 1918
Supermarine Channel I51920-1923
Lübeck-Travemünde F.421920-1924Last flight 1924, scrapped 1927 and 1930
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.621921-1927
Savoia S.1311921-1928Gift
Hansa Brandenburg W.33301922-1935
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.721923-1931
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.8 2 8B: 2 1924-1934
1930-1939*
Douglas DT-2B/C81925-1940Single example delivered by Douglas, the rest built under licence by Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk.
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.9151926-1932
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.1041929-1940
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.11291932-1940Three aircraft interned in Finland were used by the Finns until 1944
Breda Ba 2841936-1940Five were ordered to save an Italian-Norwegian cod fish trading deal, one crashed in Italy almost killing Finn Lützow-Holm
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.1211939
Heinkel He 115A-26+21939-1943Six delivered in 1939, plus two captured from the Luftwaffe after the invasion. An order for a further six were placed, but the aircraft were not delivered by 9 April 1940.
The last of the delivered aircraft were scrapped in Woodhaven in 1943. Four aircraft served with RAF, one served in Finland
Junkers Ju 5211940Hauken was rented from DNL from January 1940 until the invasion 9 April
Arado Ar 196A11940Interned near Kristiansund 8 April 1940, taken into Norwegian service the following day. Destroyed in landing accident in Glasgow later in April 1940
Norwegian Army Air Service
Maurice Farman S.3 Longhorn31912-1925Ganger Rolf and Njaal were bought with funds from Norsk Luftseiladsforening. Olav Trygvassøn was a gift with a clause; it was to be stationed in Trøndelag.
Bleriot XI11914-1915Tryggve Gran's Nordsjøen
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.1Einar Sem-Jacobsen visited Maurice Farman in France, but could not get the drawings for the aircraft he saw there, so he drew FF.1 from memory
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.2Based on FF.1
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.3 Hydro41917-Based on a Farman Sem-Jacobsen had obtained drawings of.
Farman F.40XL II: 2
LX: 101916-1917
1917-1922
Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e151917-1925
Avro 50451918-1930The last, delivered in 1922, was a gift from Roald Amundsen.
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.42Five planned, but prototype was a failure. An improved version did not fare much better, and both were soon withdrawn from service and sold at an auction
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.5 (T.1)T.1: 1
T.1B: 6
T.1C: 111918
1919-
1921-1924T.1, based on BE.2e, was a failure. T.1B, based on Avro 504 got into use, but was no success.
Farman F.4621920-1922
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.6 (T.2)11921Five planned, but the prototype turned out to be a failure; the test pilot refused to go up again after the first test flight. Scrapped 1922
Bristol F.2 Fighter51921-1930
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.7 Hauk141923-1929Hannoversche Waggonfabrik's CL.V built under licence
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.8 MåkeMåke I: 2
Måke II: 7
Måke III: 4-1928
1921-
1928-Hansa Brandenburg W.29 built under licence, Måke I and II by Norsk Aerofabrik, Måke III by HF
Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.9 Kaje
Fokker C.V.D271931-1940 All built under licence by Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk
Fokker C.V.E201930-1940 Five delivered by Fokker, the rest built under licence by HF
de Havilland DH.60 Moth13 1930-1940 Three second-hand aircraft bought from de Havilland, 10 built under licence by HF
de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth381933-1940 All built under licence by HF
Cierva C.30A11935-1936 Gift, sold after a year, hardly used
Svenska Aero J6B Jaktfalk11932-1936 One Jaktfalk and One Fury bought for a fly-off for the next Norw. fighter
Hawker Fury I1 1933-1936
Armstrong Whitworth AW35 Scimitar41936-1940 40 projected built under licence by HFF, project abandoned when Scimitar was not selected by RAF
Gloster Gladiator Mk.I: 6 1937-1940   Mk.II: 6  1940
Caproni Ca.31041938-1940 Bought in a dried and salted cod deal. In addition, two Ca.312 were ordered in the spring of 1940.
Curtiss 75A-6 19 1940 19 from an order of 24 delivered prior to the German invasion, most still in crates. Shipment with last five diverted to UK

War years: Little Norway, squadrons in RAF and the Stockholm Element
Hawker Hurricane 331 Sqdn
Supermarine Spitfire 331 & 332 Sqdn
Auster AOP.191944-1945132 (N.) Wing (331 & 332 Sqdn.) hack
Bristol Beaufighter I31943On loan to 333 Sqdn from 235 Sqdn
Airspeed Oxford I 2
Northrop N-3PB 24330 Sqdn
Fairchild M-62 Little Norway
Curtiss 75A-8 36Little Norway
Douglas 8A-53 6Little Norway
Interstate Cadet 2Little Norway
Waco SRE Little Norway
Stinson Reliant 7Little Norway
Noorduyn Norseman IV 1 Little Norway, rented a short period
Consolidated Catalina IIIA
Short SunderlandMk. III:Mk.V:

de Havilland Mosquito
Lockheed LodestarStockholm Element

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