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World's most mass produced aircrafts

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1. Cessna 172 Skyhawk

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43,000+ built. Most produced aircraft.

2. Ilyushin Il-2

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36,183. Most produced combat airfract.

3. Messerschmitt Bf 109

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33,984. Most produced fighter.

Most produced allied fighters were Spitfire (20,351) and P-51 Mustang (16,766)

4. B-24 Liberator

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18,482. Most produced heavy bomber. Most produced multi-engine aircraft.

5. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15.

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18,000+. Most produced jet airplane. Most produced post WW2 fighter.

6. Mil Mi-8

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17,000+ Most-produced helicopter. Still in production.

Second most produced helicopter was UH-1 Iroquois 16,000+.

7. Douglas DC-3

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16,079. Most produced airliner.

8 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

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11,000+. Most produced supersonic aircraft.
 
i feel the mig 21 is the largest jet fighter to be ever produced.
 
9. Avro 504

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10,000+. Most produced WW1 aircraft (8,970 were built during the war itself).

SPAD S.XIII (8,472) was most produced WW1 designated fighter.

10. Boeing 737

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7,000. Most produced jet airliner. Still in production.

11. F-16 Fighting Falcon

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4,450+. Most produced 4 gen fighter. Prevalent combat airfract today (some 15% of world's active combat aircrafts).

12. Mil Mi-24

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~2000. Most produced attack helicopter.
 
Why is the MiG-15 nicknamed 'Fagot' by NATO? Was it meant to be an insult? :blink:
 
Why is the MiG-15 nicknamed 'Fagot' by NATO? Was it meant to be an insult? :blink:

Just a nickname. The offensive word contains two g's instead of one.
NATO reporting name
To reduce the risk of confusion, unusual or made-up names were allocated, the idea being the names chosen would be unlikely to occur in normal conversation, and be easier to memorise. For fixed-wing aircraft, single syllable words denoted piston-prop and turboprop, while multiple syllables denoted jets. Bombers had names starting with the letter B and names like Badger (2 syllables: jet), Bear (single syllable: propeller), and Blackjack were used. “Frogfoot,” the reporting name for the Sukhoi Su-25, references the aircraft’s close air support role. Transports had names starting with C (as in “cargo”), which resulted in names like Careless or Candid.
 
How come everybody missed the Phantom ?

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Number built 5,195
 
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