Best unwanted RAF aircraft to send to Malaya, 1941?

Before Pearl Habor was attacked, AVG is going to Burma, if not straight to China. After 7th Dec 1941, US will not send anything in Malaya, since they are hard pressed on 'their own' battlefields.
 
Before Pearl Habor was attacked, AVG is going to Burma, if not straight to China. After 7th Dec 1941, US will not send anything in Malaya, since they are hard pressed on 'their own' battlefields.

I read that AVG wanted to operate in Singapore because it was much closer to China. Here is a part why it didn´t happen:

Although a bit more unlikely, there is also a possibility of air reinforcement from a valuable source. COL Claire Chennault and Curtiss Aircraft Corporation’s first choice for the organization of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) was Singapore, not Burma. Singapore already had a thriving American business community, and Ford Motor Company had established an assembly plant – infamous as the location of Percival’s surrender to Yamashita. The British Colonial authorities in Malaya vetoed this proposal, again fearing a Curtiss presence would disrupt the labor market and believing it would be a provocative act. This concern for Japanese sensibilities also led to the AVG being forced to construct facilities from scratch at Toungoo, Burma instead of using existing (and empty) RAF facilities.
 
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