Remind me of the requirements for an aircraft to be included in AH

[oboe]

I know that the aircraft in question must have participated in combat in WWII.

I think I recall a service-level requirement, but is that service-level requirement Fighter Group-level strength (36-48 planes) or Squadron-level strength (12-16 planes)?

And what exactly defines combat?  Is flying missions in a combat zone sufficient?  Or must the aircraft have traded fire with the enemy?

[save]

In other threads i've seen "have kills", as a requirement,.

[oboe]

I don't recall any requirements for "kills", but I did a search and found a thread where Krusty stated:

It seems there's 3 requirements for any potential aircraft if it is to ever be considered for inclusion into this game.

Doing a search would probably yield this information.

Larry already touched on these. This is why he brought this up:

1) It must be a production craft

No prototypes, no 1-off, no field-modded planes. Must be modeled as it came off the production line

2) It must have served in unit strength

No planes where only 1 flew in a mixed squadron. It has to have been numerous enough to at least fill an entire unit of the same plane.

3) It must have seen action

It must have seen actual combat. No training craft. No unarmed recon craft. No scout planes that were never used. This is why we most likely won't ever get the F8F or the F7F, because neither saw combat. Do-335 prototypes might have done some weapons testing (but records are scarce to say the least) but the production units saw no action at all. They never made it to the pilots.