Blenheim Is of 114 Squadron, based at Wyton. The Squadron took these aircraft to France in December 1939, and returned to the UK in May 1940.
The RAF’s fastest bomber for some years was the Bristol Blenheim, one of the first monoplanes to be ordered under the Expansion Scheme.

The Hurricane first entered service in December 1937, with 111 Squadron at Northolt. This group of 111 Squadron Hurricanes and pilots was taken at Northolt in April 1938.

The Miles Magister was the RAF’s first monoplane trainer.

Gladiators are the best, and perhaps the last, biplane single-seater fighters to be issued to the R.A.F.
The Gladiator was the last of the RAF’s biplane fighters and the type entered service in 1937, though it had largely been replaced in Fighter Command by the outbreak of war. Illustrated here are the all-silver Gladiators of 54 Squadron.

Handley Page Harrow I K6988 of 214 Squadron photographed in 1938. The Harrow was one of the earliest of the RAF’s monoplane bombers but was never used operationally in the bomber role.