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Aircraft of the Royal Air Force classified as fighter aircraft — profiled in full.
Gloster Meteor
Gloster Aircraft Company
Fighter AircraftDiscover the Gloster Meteor, the RAF’s first operational jet fighter, from V-1 interceptions in 1944 to its long post-war service.
View aircraft → Entered service 27 July 1944
Retired 1982
Max speed 600 mph (966 km/h)
Ceiling 43,000 ft (13,106 m)
Range 600 mi (965 km)
Fighter Aircraft · 21 aircraft
Formation & Interwar
Armstrong Whitworth Siskin
Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited
Cold War
Blackburn Buccaneer
Blackburn Aircraft Ltd (later Hawker Siddeley)
Second World War
Bristol Beaufighter
Bristol Aeroplane Company
Cold War
de Havilland Vampire
de Havilland Aircraft Company; English Electric
Cold War
English Electric Lightning
English Electric (later British Aircraft Corporation)
Modern RAF
Eurofighter Typhoon
Eurofighter GmbH
Modern RAF
F-35 Lightning II
Lockheed Martin
Formation & Interwar
Gloster F.9/37
Gloster Aircraft Company
Cold War
Gloster Javelin
Gloster Aircraft Company
Cold War
Gloster Meteor
Gloster Aircraft Company
Cold War
Hawker Hunter
Hawker Aircraft Ltd
Second World War
Hawker Hurricane
Hawker Aircraft Ltd
Cold War
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
Hawker Siddeley
Second World War
Hawker Tempest
Hawker Aircraft
Second World War
Hawker Typhoon
Hawker Aircraft
Cold War
McDonnell Douglas Phantom
McDonnell Douglas
Cold War
Panavia Tornado
Panavia Aircraft GmbH (BAC / MBB / Aeritalia consortium)
First World War
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
Royal Aircraft Factory
Cold War
SEPECAT Jaguar
SEPECAT (Breguet / British Aircraft Corporation)
First World War
Sopwith Camel
Sopwith Aviation Company
Second World War