List of rocket-powered aircraft

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Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Status | No. | Notes

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Arado E.381 Kleinstjäger | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 | Carried by an Arado Ar 234.
Avión Torpedo | Peru | VTOL | Rocket plane | 1902 | Project |  | Avant-garde design using liquid propellant rockets installed in the tiltwing when swiveled, capable of vertical or horizontal flight.
Avro 720 | UK | CTOL |  | 1956 | Project | 0 | Mixed power.
Avro Z-101 | UK | Air launch | Research | 1961 | Project | 0 | Manned variant of the Blue Steel missile.
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" | Germany | VTOL | Fighter | 1945 | Production | 36 | Point defence interceptor. Never saw action (debatable footage, seems to show a Ba 349 in combat.[1]).[2]
Bell X-1 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1947 | Prototype | 7 | First aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight.
Bell X-2 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1955 | Prototype | 2 | Supersonic.
Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1 | USSR | CTOL | Fighter | 1942 |  | 9 |
Bisnovat 5 | USSR | CTOL |  | 1948 | Project |  | Based on captured DFS 346. Never flew under power.
Cattaneo Magni RR | Italy | CTOL | Research | 1931 | Prototype |  |
Cheranovsky RP-1 | USSR | CTOL | Research | 1932 | Prototype |  | Test in 1933 ended in engine failure.
DFS 194 | Germany | CTOL | Experimental | 1940 | Operational | 1 | Tailless, direct predecessor of Me 163 series.
Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket | USA | Air launch | Research | 1953 | Operational | 3 | Supersonic.
EZ-Rocket | USA | CTOL | Experimental | 2001 | Prototype | 1 | Rocket-powered variant of Rutan Long-EZ.
Fairey 124T Design A | UK | CTOL |  | 1952 | Project | 0 | Delta wing rocket fighter powered by AW “Screamer” motor plus 6x booster rockets wrapped around the rear lower fuselage for take-off assistance.
Focke-Wulf Volksjäger | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 | Three rocket-powered variants under construction at the end of hostilities.
Hawker P.1072 | UK | CTOL |  | 1949 | Prototype | 1 | Mixed power.
Heinkel He 112R | Germany | CTOL | Experimental | 1937 | Operational | 1 | Rocket and piston engines.
Heinkel He 176 | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1939 | Prototype | 1 | Pioneering liquid-fueled rocket propulsion aircraft.
He P.1077 Julia | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 |
Horten Rocket Wing[3] | Germany | CTOL | Concept | 1945 | Project | 0 | Prone pilot flying wing fighter.
Ju EF.127 Walli | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 |
Korolyov RP-318 | USSR | CTOL | Research | 1940 |  | 1 |
Lavochkin La-7R | USSR | CTOL |  | 1945 |  | 1 | Rocket and piston engines.
Lippisch Ente | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1928 | Prototype Opel-RAK program | 1 | First rocket-powered aircraft, part of Opel-RAK program.
Lockheed NF-104A | USA | CTOL | Trainer | 1963 |  | 3 | Rocket and jet engines.
Martin Marietta X-24A | USA | Air launch | Research | 1969 | Prototype | 1 | Lifting body.
Martin Marietta X-24B | USA | Air launch | Research | 1973 | Prototype | 1 | Lifting body.
Messerschmitt Me 163 | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1941 | Production | 10 A-subtype
~360 B-subtype | Tailless, B-version saw combat May 1944-May 1945.
Messerschmitt Me 263 | Germany | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 |  | 3 | Also known as Ju 248, development of Me 163.
Messerschmitt P.1104 | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 |
Mitsubishi J8M | Japan | CTOL | Fighter | 1945 |  | 7 | Was to have been a licensed Messerschmitt Me 163 but the plans were lost so was only similar.
Mizuno Shinryu II | Japan | CTOL |  | 1945 | Project | 0 | Second aircraft developed in Japan to use a canard design after the J7W1.
North American X-15 | USA | Air launch | Research | 1959 | Operational | 3 | Hypersonic. Later variants capable of sub-orbital space flight.
Northrop XP-79 | USA | CTOL | Fighter | 1944 | Prototype | 1 | Flying wing. Converted to jet power for first and only flight.
Opel RAK.1 | Germany | CTOL | Research | 1929 | Operational | 1 | First purpose-built rocket-powered aircraft, Opel-RAK program.
Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor | USA | CTOL |  | 1949 |  | 2 | Rocket and jet engines.
Rikugun Ki-202 | Japan | CTOL | Fighter | 1945 |  | 0 | Improved J8M/Ki-200 with the elongated fuselage.
RRL Mark-III X-racer | USA | CTOL | Racer | 2010 |  | 1 | [4]
RRL Mark I X-racer | USA | CTOL | Racer | 2006 |  | 1 | Customized Velocity SE, prototype for Rocket Racing League.[5][6]
Saunders-Roe SR.53 | UK | CTOL | Fighter | 1957 | Prototype | 2 | Jet and rocket power.
Saunders-Roe SR.177 | UK | CTOL | Fighter | 1958 | Project | 0 | Jet and rocket power. Development of SR.53.
Silbervogel | Germany | CTOL | Suborbital Bomber | 1941 | Project | 0 | Designed to reach very high altitudes and glide to targets in North America.
SNCASO Trident | France | CTOL | Experimental | 1953 | Prototype | 8 | Jet and rocket power.
SNCASE SE.212 Durandal | France | CTOL | Fighter | 1956 | Prototype | 2 | Mixed power.
Sombold So 344 | Germany | Air launch |  | 1944 | Project | 0 | bomber box buster with a detachable explosive nose.
Sukhoi Su-7 | USSR | CTOL |  | 1944 |  | 1 | Sukhoi Su-6 with rocket and piston engines.
von Braun Interceptor | Germany | VTOL |  | 1939 | Project | 0 | Used a launch vehicle for take off from a hangar vertically similar to a V2 rocket.
Westland Design B | UK | CTOL |  | 1952 | Project | 0 | Delanne wing rocket fighter armed with 2x Blue Jay missiles and powered with 2x DH Spectre rocket motors.
Yakovlev Yak-3RD | USSR | CTOL |  | 1945 | Prototype | 1 | Modified Yakovlev Yak-3 with rocket and piston engines.
Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka | Japan | Air launch | Attack | 1945 | Production |  | Kamikaze aircraft.
Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust | Germany | Air launch |  | 1944 | Project | 0 | Towed behind a Messerschmitt Bf 109G.
Zeppelin Rammer | Germany | Air launch | Fighter | 1944 | Project | 0 | Designed to use the aerial ramming technique against Allied bombers.

## See also

* Zero-length launch
* JATO
* CAM ship

## References

1. ↑ Projekt Natter, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1996333/
2. ↑ Sharp, D.; Luftwaffe: Secret Jets of the Third Reich, Morton's, 2015.
3. ↑ https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/ho-rocket-wing.html
4. ↑ Flying inside the groove: the latest rocket-powered test aircraft take just four seconds to get into the air from ignition. The brink of take-off for the RRL, Aerospace Testing International, June 2010, pp. 50-54, accessed 2010-09-06.
5. ↑ X-Racers, Start Your Rockets! : The creators of the X prize offer a sensational vision of rocket-powered airplanes speeding through the sky. But can their new racing league steal a bit of Nascar's thunder?, Michael Belfiore, Popular Science (feature cover story), 2006-02-15, accessed 2010-09-02.
6. ↑ XCOR X-Racer, by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 2009-08-06, accessed 2010-12-11.

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