| | Aircraft designations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Some aircraft that originally had names assigned by their US manufacturers kept those in RAF service, such as the Bell Airacobra, which was going to be renamed Caribou, but which was finally given its manufacturer’s name. |
 | | Aircraft were designed by an OKB (experimental construction bureau), which consisted of a head designer (or group of designers), a small technical staff, and unskilled workers. |
 | | Aircraft appear to have received official names when contracts were placed; the P.37 Løs received its official name in mid-1936, concurrent with the placing of a pre-production contract for ten aircraft. |
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