The
Compendium

The ledger runs chronologically by first flight, divided into seven eras. Marks are grouped — one Spitfire row covers all twenty-four — and each entry links to the gazetteer museums where an example is held: click a station code to jump to that museum’s full entry. The types that changed everything get the larger, illustrated rows.

Omitted from charge: bare engines, radar heads, airfield tractors, one crashed hang glider, and several items Google believes are aeroplanes. The compiler stands by these judgements.

SOURCES: MUSEUM COLLECTION RECORDS, JULY 2026 · FIRST-FLIGHT YEARS & FIGURES ARE THE COMMONLY ACCEPTED ONES (~ = ESTIMATED) · SILHOUETTES INDICATE CLASS, NOT PORTRAIT LIKENESS