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** The Itsuha resembles the Henschel Hs P.75.

** The Shougu resembles the Grumman F8F Bearcat.

** The Skyly D is what you get when you toss a ~~Supermarine~~ ~~Seafire~~ ~~FR47,~~ a Focke-Wulf Ta 152, and a Martin-Baker MB 5 ~~into~~ a ~~blender~~.

** The Skyly D is what you get when you toss multiple WWII aircraft into a blender. It has the nose of a Focke-Wulf Ta 152, the fuselage and contra-rotating twin propellers of a Martin-Baker MB 5, the turbochargers of a P-38 Lighting, and the wings and sliver color scheme of a Fisher P-75 Eagle.

** The Vice is essentially a skinnier Bf 110 heavy fighter.

** The Senryu has the cockpit of a Junkers Ju 388J night fighter, but the overall body shape of the Boulton Paul P.99.

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** The Tulip is based off the P-51D Mustang, only sleeker, and with inverted gull wings.

** The Incident is the only plane that doesn't resemble a WWII aircraft, while its twin broom design seems to be based off the P-38 Lightning, it actually bears a closer resemblance to the OV-10 Bronco.

** Rostock's seaplane, the Torrent, resembles the Boeing 314 Clipper, albeit with its engines in pusher configuration and two additional floats slung under the wings.

** The three large, unnamed Lautern noise jammer aircraft that appear in the first mission are based on two Vickers designs, two of them are based on the Vickers Windsor heavy bomber while the third one is based on the Type C super heavy bomber concept, albeit with only 4 engines instead of 6.

** Lautern's unnamed heavy bomber which is used to bomb the Wolfram resemble an Avro Lancaster, but with six engines in pusher configuration instead of four.

* [[Alternate Company Equivalent]]: Most of the aircraft the two companies field have clear equivalents with their competitor:

** Rostock's Sanka and Lautern's Skyly are the companies' next generation fighter planes, the Sanka putting an emphasis on maneuverability, while the Skyly is capable of reaching impressive speeds but is harder to control. Additionally, they're the only aircraft known to receive periodic updates to their airframes, with the successor models, the Sanka M-B and the Skyly J2 featuring prominently in the film.