obsolete bomber used as target tug after withdrawn from general use, to 1943 Transport and communications Experimental and other Baynes Bat (RAF) tailless tank carrying glider Boulton Paul P.92 (RAF) turret fighter half scale prototype Bristol Type 138 (RAF) high-altitude research Folland Fo.108 engine testbed (operated by engine manufacturers) General Aircraft GAL.56 (RAF) tailless swept wing glider Gloster E.28/39 (RAF) jet propelled aircraft Gloster Gauntlet (RAF) obsolete fighter used for meteorological flights Handley Page Manx (RAF) flying wing Hillson Bi-mono (RAF) slip wing testbed Miles M.3E Gillette Falcon (RAF) high speed airfoil testing Miles M.30 (RAF) blended-wing testbed Miles M.35 Libellula (RAF) canard testbed Miles M.39B Libellula (RAF) canard testbed Saro Shrimp half scale development testbed for R.5/39 Sunderland replacement Vickers Type 470 and Type 486 Wellington (RAF) flying test beds for Whittle turbojet Prototypes & trials Airspeed Cambridge (RAF) trainer Airspeed Fleet Shadower (RAF) maritime patrol Blackburn B-20 (RAF) maritime patrol seaplane Blackburn Firebrand (FAA) torpedo fighter Brewster Buccaneer (FAA) dive bomber rejected for service after trials Bristol Brigand (RAF) bomber Bristol Buckingham (RAF) bomber Curtiss Cleveland (RAF) dive-bomber diverted from French but not used Curtiss Helldiver (FAA) dive bomber rejected for service after trials de Havilland Hornet (RAF) twin engine fighter de Havilland Sea Hornet (FAA) twin engine fighter de Havilland Vampire (RAF) jet fighter prototype Fairey Spearfish (FAA) torpedo/dive bomber General Aircraft Fleet Shadower (RAF) maritime patrol General Aircraft GAL.47 (RAF) Army cooperation General Aircraft GAL.55 (RAF) training glider Gloster F.9/37 (RAF) heavy fighter Hafner Rotabuggy (RAF) developed as a way of air-dropping vehicles Hawker Hotspur (RAF) turret fighter Hawker Fury (monoplane) (RAF) fighter Hawker Tornado (RAF) fighter Lockheed Lightning (RAF) evaluation only before order cancelled Martin-Baker MB 2 (RAF) fighter Martin-Baker MB 3 (RAF) fighter Martin-Baker MB 5 (RAF) fighter Martin Mariner (RAF) tested October–December 1943, then rejected Miles M.18 (RAF) trainer Miles M.20 (RAF) fighter Reid and Sigrist R.S.3 Desford (RAF) rejected trainer Supermarine B.12/36 (Type 317) Supermarine Type 322 (FAA) torpedo/dive bomber Supermarine Spiteful (RAF) fighter Vickers Type 432 (RAF) high-altitude fighter Vickers Windsor (RAF) bomber Vought Chesapeake (FAA) dive bomber diverted from French but not used Vultee Vengeance (RAF) dive bomber rejected for service after trials Gliders Airspeed Horsa (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hamilcar (RAF, Army Air Corps) General Aircraft Hotspur (RAF, Army Air Corps) training glider Slingsby Hengist (RAF) Waco Hadrian (RAF, Army Air Corps) See also List of aircraft