American production by type
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If you want a really detailed breakdown, see the USAF statistical digests here: link. Choose the 1945-49 period for ww2. I don't have the as detailed surce for the USN A/C, though they might be listed in 1946 or 47 digests.
Acceptances for P-47 and F4U (per 'America's hundred thousand'):
1940:0/1
1941:1/0
1942:532/178
1943:4482/2293
1944:7065/5380
1945:3657/3578
Acceptances for P-47 and F4U (per 'America's hundred thousand'):
1940:0/1
1941:1/0
1942:532/178
1943:4482/2293
1944:7065/5380
1945:3657/3578
Many of the a/c on this site have production numbers, American Military Aircraft
R Leonard
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Official munitions production of the United States by months, July 1, 1940 - August 31, 1945. :: World War II Operational Documents
400 plus pages of statistical minutiae.
see pages 1-80 for aircraft production
Official munitions production of the United States by months, July 1, 1940 - August 31, 1945. :: World War II Operational Documents
400 plus pages of statistical minutiae.
see pages 1-80 for aircraft production
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Really? How were they in 1939 and 1940?
Shortround6
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In 1939 not so good, in 1940 not too bad, 1941 was certainly a good year, 1942 and after was an avalanche.
1939 = 5,856 aircraft.
1940 = 12,804 aircraft.
1941 = 26,277 aircraft.
1942 = 47,836 aircraft.
1943 = 85,898 aircraft.
1944 = 96,318 aircraft.
Now what counts as an airplane is certainly up for debate. From Wiki
"The need for new pilots created an insatiable appetite for the Cub. In 1940, the year before the United States' entry into the war, 3,016 Cubs had been built; wartime demands soon increased that production rate to one Cub being built every 20 minutes"
Please note that that figure of 3,016 Piper cubs is for the J-3 model. The J-4 coupe (side by side seating) racked up another 1200 and some odd planes before the war and the J-5 (pilot in front and two passengers in the back) racked up at least 700 prewar.
Add in all the Taylorcraft, Aeronca and other small/light aircraft and the total gets rather large even if they are hardly warplanes.
depending on what is counted the numbers for 1939/40 are all over the place.
1940 actually saw about 3,064 combat and large transports built.
But the small aircraft were used by thousands in flying schools.
1939 = 5,856 aircraft.
1940 = 12,804 aircraft.
1941 = 26,277 aircraft.
1942 = 47,836 aircraft.
1943 = 85,898 aircraft.
1944 = 96,318 aircraft.
Now what counts as an airplane is certainly up for debate. From Wiki
"The need for new pilots created an insatiable appetite for the Cub. In 1940, the year before the United States' entry into the war, 3,016 Cubs had been built; wartime demands soon increased that production rate to one Cub being built every 20 minutes"
Please note that that figure of 3,016 Piper cubs is for the J-3 model. The J-4 coupe (side by side seating) racked up another 1200 and some odd planes before the war and the J-5 (pilot in front and two passengers in the back) racked up at least 700 prewar.
Add in all the Taylorcraft, Aeronca and other small/light aircraft and the total gets rather large even if they are hardly warplanes.
depending on what is counted the numbers for 1939/40 are all over the place.
1940 actually saw about 3,064 combat and large transports built.
But the small aircraft were used by thousands in flying schools.
Let me clarify. I'm not talking about in a specific year or specifically about aircraft. If you were to look up the total tonnage of ships constructed during the war, US exceeds that of everyone else combined. In the area of aircraft engines the total war time production of the three most powerful models produced in quantity by the US ( the R-3350, R-2800 and R-2600 totaling ~230k) equals the total production of engines of 1000hp or more of either Germany or the UK . If we add the other 400,000 engines of 1000hp or more produced in the US, we get a figure greater than the combined total aircraft engine production of the Axis powers and the UK during the war. We could go down the list of items that follow a similar trend to the above examples. This trend actually started a long before ww2. US automobile production dwarfed that of the rest of the world fore example.
