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The UNITED STATES

In the late 30's early 40's the United States chose to follow the British system by naming their planes, and chose to follow and American standard of a letter-number type system. The ARMY and the NAVY have their own system which are shown below.

The Army uses a Letter first which indicates the function of the craft, followed by a number which indicates the sequence of appearance of that model. The ARMY does not designate the manufacture.

A	Light Bomber	A-20-a
B	Bomber	B-34
C	Transport	C-57
F	Photographic Plane	F-2
G	Glider	TG-6
L	Liaison	L-2c
O	Observations	O-50
OA	Observations Amphibian	OA-19
P	fighter (pursuit.)	P-47
PT	Primary Trainer	PT-17
BT	Basic Trainer	BT-14
AT	Advanced Trainer	AT-7

The NAVY system starts with a letter(s) which designates the function, followed by a number or numbers which indicates the number of that such plane that the manufacture has produced. the second group of letters indicate the manufacturer, and the numbers following (if any) designate the veriations of the original model

Type
F	Fighter
J	Utility
N	Trainer
P	Patrol
PB	Patrol Bomber
SB	Scout Bomber
TB	Torpedo Bomber
OS or SO	Observation Scout (land or Sea)
Q	Glider
R	Transport
The NAVY designations of manufacturers are:
A Brewster	L Bell
B Boeing	M Martin
C Curtiss	O Lockheed
D Douglas	T Northrup
F Grumman	U Vought-Sikorsky
H Hall	V VEGA
J North American	Y Consolidated

UNITED STATES
Bell P-39 Aircobra / P-39	Curtiss-Wright P-40D Kittyhawk / P-40D	Curtiss-Wright P-40F Warhawk / P-40F	Curtiss-Wright SNC-1 Falcon / SNC-1	Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless / A-24
Douglas TBD-1 Devastator / TBD-1	Fairchild M62A Cornell / PT-19 / PT-26	North American NA-88 SNJ-4 / AT6Texan	North American NA-66 Harvard / BC1a	North American P-64
North American NA-99 Apache / Mustang/ P-51	Northrup A-17A	Northrup N-3PB	Republic P-43 Lancer	Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Ryan ST-4 PT-25	Ryan NR-1	Vought-Sikorsky F4U-1 Corsair	Vought-Sikorsky SB2U-3	Vultee BT-15
Vultee P-66 Vanguard				AT-13 Yankee Doodle