List of submarine-borne aircraft

A seaplane launching from British submarine HMS M2.

HMS M2 retrieving her seaplane

This is a list of aircraft carried undersea and used from submarines (see Submarine aircraft carriers).

These were primarily used during the Second World War, also included for comparison are earlier developments of submarine carried aircraft from the First World War and the period between the World Wars.

Germany

• Arado Ar 231, light portable reconnaissance floatplane
• Caspar-Heinkel U-1, dismantlable reconnaissance biplane
• Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 "Bachstelze", autogyro/glider/observation vehicle
• Fieseler Fi 103 "V-1", flying-bomb launched from submarine development
• Flettner Fl 282A-2 "Kolibri", dismantlable reconnaissance helicopter project
• Friedrichshafen FF.29, dismantlable reconnaissance biplane
• Hansa Brandenburg W.20, portable reconnaissance flying boat
• Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft L.F.G Stralsund V.19, light low-wing reconnaissance monoplane

Japan

• Aichi M6A1 Seiran, portable strike monoplane torpedo-bomber
• Watanabe E9W1 "Slim", portable reconnaissance biplane
• Yokosuka E14Y1 "Glen", light reconnaissance monoplane
• Yokosuka E6Y1-N, small reconnaissance biplane

United States

• Caspar-Heinkel U-1, dismantable reconnaissance biplane
• Cox-Klemin XS-1, 1920s portable reconnaissance biplane
• Cox-Klemin XS-2, 1920s experimental scout biplane
• Loening XSL-1, small flying boat
• "Loon" flying guided bomb, submarine missile launcher development
• Martin MS-1, 1920s dismantable reconnaissance biplane

United Kingdom

• Bristol-Burney X.1,2,3, light flying hydrofoil
• Parnall-Peto, dismantable light reconnaissance biplane
• Sopwith Schneider seaplane, experimental reconnaissance trial modification

Italy

• Macchi M.53, small reconnaissance plane
• Piaggio P.8, small reconnaissance plane

France

• Mureaux Besson MB-411, portable reconnaissance monoplane

Soviet Union

• Chyetverikov SPL

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