The Hurricanes were the first monoplane fighter aircraft to enter service with the Air Corps and were also the first aircraft capable of reaching 300 m.p.h. IIcs were the last batch of aircraft to be delivered to the Air Corps before the end of World War II. IIcs that were delivered to the Irish Army Air Corps in March 1945, to eventually replace the Hurricane Mk. These were supplemented by 6 Hawker Hurricane Mk. Wexford in 1940, was the twelfth aircraft. stocks, between July 1943 and March 1944, and the Hurricane Mk. Is were eventually delivered to the Air Corps, from surplus R.A.F. Is were initially ordered for the Irish Army Air Corps in 1940 but were not delivered due to a wartime embargo imposed by the British Government. Requests for more aircraft from Britain resulted in 13 obsolete Hawker Hector biplane light bombers being supplied during 1941. ĭe Havilland Vampire T-11 trainers of the Irish Air Corps in 1955 World War II (The Emergency) ĭuring World War II (or The Emergency) there are no records of Air Corps planes engaging any belligerent aircraft, although dozens of escaped barrage balloons were shot down. Other aircraft purchased from the United Kingdom before the outbreak of war included 16 Avro Anson Mark I maritime patrol bombers, 3 Supermarine Walrus amphibians, 6 Westland Lysander Mark II army co-operation aircraft and a number of trainers. In 1938 four Gloster Gladiator biplane fighters were delivered – a further eight were ordered but were embargoed by the outbreak of the Second World War. With the establishment of the Defence Forces in 1924, the Air Service became the new Army's Air Corps and remained part of the Army until the 1990s. Its successor, the Irish Army Air Corps was established in 1924 following a re-organisation of the National Army at the end of the Civil War. By the end of 1922, the National Army Air Service comprised ten aircraft, consisting of six Bristol F2B fighters from the First World War and four Martinsyde F4 Fighters, and about 400 men. This company had been formed in 1919 to dispose of surplus aircraft and aero-engines from World War I for the British Government. The National Army Air Service was established in July 1922 and was gradually equipped with various aircraft types acquired from the R.A.F. The plane was not needed for this mission, and it became the first aircraft of the new National Army Air Service arriving in June 1922. During the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks of 1921, a Martinsyde Type A Mark II biplane was purchased and put on 24-hour standby at Croydon Airport to allow Michael Collins to escape back to Ireland if the talks failed. The National Army Air Service was independent Ireland's first air force.
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