What aircraft the Malta class might have carried

What aircraft would the Malta-class carriers have operated?

They would probably have begun with Firebrands and the contemporary late-war Fleet Air Arm group.

The Blackburn Firebrand and the broader late-war Fleet Air Arm group were the likely starting point. Malta was intended to operate the same evolving aircraft families discussed later in the stream, but the answer does not present a fixed final air-group list.