Many non combat aircraft get shot at. It is shooting back thay makes them
combat aircraft.

So a Mosquito B. IV is a non-combat aircraft, because it cannot shoot?

C-47 = non-combat?
but a miserably-armed Ju 52/3m = combat a/c?

I would think that if you sent an aircraft into combat, that its a combat a/c.
Differences of opinion, I guess.

v/r
Gordon
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USN SAR Aircrew

"Got anything on your radar, SENSO?"
"Nothing but my forehead, sir."