List of jet aircraft of World War II

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This is a list of jet aircraft that flew or were about to fly during the Second World War:


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[edit] Allies

[edit]  United Kingdom

[edit] Experimental and test jet aircraft

[edit] Operational jet aircraft

[edit]  United States

[edit] Experimental and test jet aircraft

[edit] Operational jet aircraft

[edit]  Soviet Union

[edit] Experimental jet aircraft

  • Lavochkin La-150 - Design started in summer of 1945. First flight, September 1946. Built around the Jumo 004 (RD-10) engine. 5 built.
  • Lavochkin La-152 - First flight, October 1946. Modifications of the 150 design. 3 built with various modifications.
  • Sukhoi Su-5 - Combined propeller/thermojet propulsion. 1 built, first flown 6 April 1945. Grounded after loss of piston engine.
  • Sukhoi Su-7-Development of Sukhoi Su-6 with mixed propulsion. Destroyed in 1945 in airshow.

[edit] Operational jet aircraft

  • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9 - First flew April 24, 1946. First true Russian turbojet.
  • Yakovlev Yak-15 - First flew April 24, 1946. Used Yak-3 fuselage and cockpit, mostly used as an introduction for pilots and ground-crew to jet aircraft.
  • Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 - mixed power fighter using a thermojet and standard prop engine. 10-20 estimated built. Supplanted by pure jet aircraft.

[edit] Axis

[edit]  Germany

[edit] Experimental and test jet aircraft

[edit] Operational jet aircraft

[edit]  Italy

[edit] Experimental and test jet aircraft

[edit] Jet aircraft projects

[edit]  Japan

[edit] Operational rocket aircraft

  • Kuugisho/Yokosuka MXY7 - "Ohka" Model 11 Type 22 Suicide Attacker - entered service as a kamikaze aircraft or suicide missile

[edit] Experimental and test jet aircraft

[edit] Cancelled before built

These were either cancelled projects or incomplete at end of war