The 23,000-ton British had a hangar capacity for 36 Swordfish-sized aircraft and a single hangar, but carried up to 57 aircraft with a permanent deck park, while the 23,400-ton featured increased hangar capacity with a upper hangar and the addition of a lower hangar, forward of the after elevator, which had a total capacity of 52 Swordfish-sized aircraft or a mix of 48 late-war aircraft in the hangar plus 24 aircraft in a permanent deck park, but carried up to 81 aircraft with a deck park.