PEGASUS-POWERED: Handley Page Hampden I bombers on a practice flight. The Hampden is powered with two Bristol Pegasus XVIII engines and has a top speed of 265 m.p.h. The armament is four machine guns.
Last of the RAF’s twin-engined bombers to go into service, the Hampden was used extensively during the early part of the war, initially with 49 Sqn. Eight Hampden squadrons were ready on declaration of war in September 1939.

N7001 was the second Harvard delivered to the UK out of the initial batch of 200 aircraft delivered in 1939.

Henley entered service in 1939 as a target tower.

A Saunders-Roe Lerwick high-speed, long-range Service flying boat powered with two Bristol Hercules fourteen-cylinder, two-row sleeve-valve engines designed by Mr. A. H. R. Fedden.
The Saro Lerwick's brief use with Coastal Command began in 1939 and ended in 1941 when it was superseded by the Catalina.

"Бота" в полете
Botha L6507 of No 3 School of General Reconnaissance flying from Squire's Gate, Blackpool on September 4,1941.
The dreaded Botha, grossly underpowered, served with only two Coastal Command squadrons before being withdrawn from service in November 1940.

The Bristol Beaufort superseded the Vildebeest biplane and became Coastal Command’s standard torpedo-bomber for four years after entering service in November 1939.

The first American-built aircraft to see operational service with the RAF was the Hudson, used by Coastal Command during the war. First unit to take delivery was 224 Sqn at Gosport in late 1939.