Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Aircraft for CAW                                             Page 4

Grumman Martlet III


The Martlet was the Royal Navy's name for the US built Grumman Wildcat naval fighter.

Blackburn Skua II


The Blackburn Skua was the Royal Navy's Dive Bomber during the early years of WW2. It was
credited as being the first British aircraft to have shot down a Luftwaffe aircraft ( a Dornier Do 18)
in the war. Skuas sunk the cruiser Konigsberg during the Norwegian campaign and successfully
attacked the Vichy French fleet in Oran, Algeria.