Engineering:List of military aircraft of Finland
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The following is a list of military aircraft of Finland , both historical and currently in use by the Finnish Defence Forces.
Current inventory
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II | United States | Multi-role fighter | 0 | 64 | 2026 | Block 4-version | ||
Boeing F/A-18C Hornet | United States | Multi-role fighter | 55 | 57 | 1995 | |||
Boeing F/A-18D Hornet | United States | Two-seat trainer | 7 | 8 | 1995 | |||
BAE Hawk Mk.66 | United Kingdom | Two-seat trainer | 16[1] | 18 | 2009 | |||
BAE Hawk Mk.51A | United Kingdom | Two-seat trainer | 7[1] | 7 | 1993 | |||
BAE Hawk Mk.51 | United Kingdom | Two-seat trainer | 7[1] | 50 | 1980 | |||
Learjet 35A/S | United States | Maritime surveillance, aerial photography, air sampling, target towing, personnel transport | 3 | 3 | 1982 | |||
Pilatus PC-12 NG | Switzerland | Passenger and cargo aircraft | 6 | 6 | 2010 | |||
C-295M | Spain | Transport aircraft | 2 | 2 | 2007 | |||
C-295 SIGINT | Spain | Signals intelligence aircraft | 1 | 1 | 2018 | |||
Grob G 115E | Germany | Primary trainer | 28 | 28 | 2016 |
Heavy Airlift Wing
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Boeing C-17 Globemaster III | United States | Heavy transport | 3 | 3 | 2009 | Finland is a partner in NATO's Strategic Airlift Capability and has access to 100 flight hours from the C-17's every year (3.2%). The aircraft operate from Pápa Air Base in Hungary. |
Army Aviation
Helicopters
All helicopters were transferred to the army aviation in 1997.
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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NHI NH90 | European Union | Medium helicopter | 20 | 20 | 2008 | |||
MD 500D | United States | Light helicopter | 2 | 3 | ||||
MD 500E | United States | Light helicopter | 5 | 6 | 1982, 1998 | |||
Mil Mi-8PS | Soviet Union | Medium helicopter | 0 | 2 | 1978 | 2007 | ||
MD 500M | United States | Light helicopter | 0 | 1 | 1975 | 1982 | ||
MD 500C | United States | Light helicopter | 0 | 2 | 1975 | 1986 | ||
Mil Mi-8T | Soviet Union | Medium helicopter | 0 | 8 | 1973 | 2010 | ||
Bell 206A | United States | Utility helicopter | 0 | 1 | 1968 | 1979 | ||
Sud-Aviation S.E.3130 Alouette II | France | Light helicopter | 0 | 2 | 1965 | 1975 | ||
Mil Mi-4 | Soviet Union | Medium helicopter | 0 | 3 | 1962 | 1979 | ||
Mil Mi-1 | Poland | Light helicopter | 0 | 4 | 1961 | 1967 | ||
Bell 47 D-1 | United States | Light helicopter | 0 | 1 | 1953 | 1957 | Bought jointly with Imatran Voima, who was the sole operator after 1957. |
UAVs
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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RUAG Ranger | Switzerland | Tactical UAV | 10 | 12 | 2001 | |||
Aeronautics Orbiter-2B | Israel | Lightweight UAV | 250 | 250 | 2012 | 55 systems, with a total of 250 mini air vehicles delivered | ||
DJI Mavic Pro Platinum[2] | China | Lightweight quadcopter drone | 150 | 150 | 2019 |
Post-WWII aircraft, propeller-driven
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander | United Kingdom | Liaison aircraft | 0 | 1 | 1974 | 1975 | ||
Cessna 402B Businessliner | United States | Liaison aircraft | 0 | 2 | 1976 | 1984 | ||
Piper PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II Piper PA-28RT-201 Arrow IV |
United States | Liaison aircraft | 0 0 |
6 4 |
1974 1980 |
2004 2004 |
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Piper PA-31 Navajo PA-31-350 Chieftain |
United States | Liaison aircraft | 0 0 |
1 6 |
1974 1983 |
1975 2010 |
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Douglas C-47 | United States | Transport aircraft | 0 | 9 | 1960 | 1984 | ||
Fokker F-27 | Netherlands | Transport aircraft | 0 | 2 | 1980, 1984 | 2013 | One F-27 Mk 100 Friendship and one Mk 400M Troopship | |
Fokker F-27 | Netherlands | Signals intelligence aircraft | 0 | 1 | 1980 | 2015 | Mk 100 Friendship | |
Valmet L-90 TP Redigo | Finland | Training and liaison aircraft | 0 | 10 | 1992 | 2013 | ||
Valmet L-70 Vinka | Finland | Basic trainer | 0 | 30 | 1980 | 2022 | ||
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver | Canada | Liaison aircraft | 0 | 3 | 1958 | 1971 | ||
Hunting Percival Pembroke | United Kingdom | Aerial photography | 0 | 2 | 1956 | 1968 | ||
Valmet Vihuri | Finland | Training aircraft | 0 | 51 | 1951 | 1959 | ||
Saab 17A | Sweden | Target tow | 0 | 2 | 1959 | 1961 | ||
Saab 91D Safir | Sweden | Target tow | 0 | 36 | 1958 | 1982 | ||
Valmet Tuuli III | Finland | Training aircraft | 0 | 1 | 1957 | 1959 | ||
Beechcraft D17S | United States | Liaison aircraft | 0 | 2 | 1940 | 1958 |
Cold War jet aircraft
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Saab 35BS Draken | Sweden | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 6 | 1972 | 1995 | ||
Saab 35CS Draken | Sweden | Two-seat trainer | 0 | 6 | 1972 | 1995 | ||
Saab 35FS Draken | Sweden | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 12 | 1976, 1984 | 2000 | ||
Saab 35XS Draken | Sweden | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 12 | 1975 | 2000 | ||
MiG-21bis | Soviet Union | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 20 | 1978 | 1998 | ||
MiG-21bis | Soviet Union | Reconnaissance aircraft | 0 | 6 | 1984 | 1998 | ||
MiG-21F-13 | Soviet Union | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 13 | 1973 | 1986 | ||
MiG-21F-13 | Soviet Union | Reconnaissance aircraft | 0 | 9 | 1984 | 1986 | ||
MiG-21U | Soviet Union | Two-seat trainer | 0 | 2 | 1965 | 1981 | ||
MiG-21UM | Soviet Union | Two-seat trainer | 0 | 4 | 1974, 1984 | 1998 | ||
MiG-15UTI | Soviet Union | Two-seat trainer | 0 | 4 | 1962 | 1977 | ||
de Havilland Vampire Mk.52 | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 6 | 1954 | 1965 | ||
de Havilland Vampire Mk.55 | United Kingdom | Two-seat trainer | 0 | 9 | 1955 | 1965 | ||
Folland Gnat Mk.1 | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 13 | 1958 | 1974 | ||
Fouga CM.170 Magister | France | Two-seat trainer | 0 | 80 | 1958 | 1988 | ||
Ilyushin Il-28 | Soviet Union | Maritime surveillance, target-tug, aerial photography | 0 | 4 | 1960 | 1981 |
World War II
Fighters
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Brewster B-239 | United States | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 44 | 1940 | 1948 | ||
Bristol Bulldog IIA | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 2 | 1940 | 1944 | ||
Bristol Bulldog IVA | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 17 | 1935 | 1944 | ||
Caudron-Renault C.R. 714 | France | 0 | 6 | 1940 | 1944 | |||
Curtiss Hawk 75A-1 Curtiss Hawk 75A-2 Curtiss Hawk 75A-3 Curtiss Hawk 75A-4 Curtiss Hawk 75A-6 |
United States | 0 | 6 9 9 7 13 |
1941 | 1948 | |||
Curtiss P-40M Warhawk | United States | 0 | 1 | 1943 | 1945 | |||
Fiat G.50 "Freccia" | Italy | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 35 | 1939 | 1946 | ||
Fokker D.XXI | Netherlands | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 97 | 1937 | 1948 | ||
Gloster Gamecock II | United Kingdom | 0 | 17 | 1927 | 1944 | |||
Gloster Gladiator I | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 12 | 1940 | 1940 | ||
Gloster Gladiator II | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 30 | 1940 | 1945 | ||
Hawker Hart | United Kingdom | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 5 | 1940 | 1940 | ||
Hawker Hurricane I Hawker Hurricane IIA |
United Kingdom | 0 | 12 1 |
1940 | 1944 | |||
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-8 |
Germany | 0 | 48 109 2 |
1943 | 1954 | |||
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 | France | Fighter aircraft | 0 | 87 | 1940 | 1948 | ||
Polikarpov I-152 (I-15bis) | Soviet Union | 0 | 5 | 1940 | 1945 | |||
Polikarpov I-153 | Soviet Union | 0 | 11 | 1940 | 1945 | |||
Polikarpov I-16 | Soviet Union | 0 | 2 | 1940 | 1943 | |||
VL Humu | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1944 | 1945 | |||
VL Myrsky | Finland | 0 | 51 | 1944 | 1947 | |||
VL Pyörremyrsky | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1945 | 1945 |
Bombers
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Bristol Blenheim Mk.I | United Kingdom | Bomber aircraft | 0 | 75 | 1937 | 1958 | ||
Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV | United Kingdom | Bomber aircraft | 0 | 22 | 1940 | 1958 | ||
Dornier Do 17 Z-1 Dornier Do 17 Z-2 Dornier Do 17 Z-3 |
Germany | 0 | 4 2 9 |
1942 | 1948 | |||
Ilyushin DB-3M | Soviet Union | 0 | 11 | 1940 | 1945 | |||
Ilyushin DB-3F | Soviet Union | 0 | 4 | 1943 | 1945 | |||
Junkers Ju 88 A-4 | Germany | 0 | 24 | 1943 | 1948 | |||
Petlyakov Pe-2 Petlyakov Pe-3 |
Soviet Union | 0 0 |
7 1 |
1941 1943 |
1946 1944 |
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Douglas DC-2 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1940 | 1940 | The Hanssin-Jukka (fi) was used as a bomber during the Winter War |
Reconnaissance
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Blackburn Ripon IIF | United Kingdom | 0 | 26 | 1929 | 1944 | |||
Fokker C.VD Fokker C.VE |
Netherlands | 0 | 2 17 |
1927 | 1945 | |||
Fokker C.X | Netherlands | Reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft | 0 | 39 | 1936 | 1958 | ||
Koolhoven F.K.52 | Netherlands | 0 | 2 | 1940 | 1943 | |||
VL Tuisku I and II | Finland | 0 | 31 | 1935 | 1950 |
Liaison
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Desoutter Mk.II | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 1941 | 1944 | |||
Fairchild 24J 60 De Luxe | United States | Liaison aircraft | 0 | 1 | 1939 | 1940 | ||
Fieseler Fi 156K-1 Storch | Germany | Liaison aircraft | 0 | 2 | 1939 | 1960 | ||
Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1943 | 1944 | |||
Junkers A50 Junior | Germany | 0 | 2 | 1936 | 1940 | |||
Polikarpov U-2 | Soviet Union | 0 | 4 | 1942 | 1945 | |||
Westland Lysander I | United Kingdom | 0 | 12 | 1940 | 1946 |
Transport
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Douglas DC-2 | United States | Transport aircraft | 0 | 3 | 1940 | 1946 | ||
Fokker F.VIIa | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1941 | 1943 | |||
Fokker F.VIII | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1940 | 1941 | |||
Junkers F 13 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 1939 | 1947 | |||
Junkers W 34 Junkers K 43F |
Weimar Republic | 0 | 12 | 1930 | 1952 |
Amphibious
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Arado Ar 196 | Germany | A-2, A-3, A-5 | 0 | 12 | 1943 | 1945 | ||
Beriev MBR-2 Beriev MBR-2bis |
Soviet Union | 0 | 2 3 |
1941 | 1942 | |||
Dornier Do 22Kl | Germany | 0 | 4 | 1941 | 1945 | |||
Heinkel He 59 | Germany | 0 | 4 | 1943 | 1943 | |||
Heinkel He 115 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 1940 | 1944 | |||
M.F. 11 | Norway | 0 | 3 | 1940 | 1944 | |||
Shavrov Sh-2 | Soviet Union | 0 | 2 | 1942 | 1944 | |||
VL E.30 Kotka I and II | Finland | 0 | 6 | 1931 | 1944 |
Trainer
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Aero A-32 GR | Czechoslovakia | Reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft | 0 | 16 | 1929 | 1944 | ||
Airspeed A.S.6E Envoy | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 1942 | 1943 | |||
Avro 652A Anson I | United Kingdom | Training aircraft | 0 | 3 | 1936 | 1947 | ||
Cessna C-37 | United States | Training aircraft | 0 | 1 | 1939 | 1944 | ||
De Havilland D.H.60X Moth | United Kingdom | Training aircraft | 0 | 23 | 1929 | 1944 | File:Katajanokan lentosatama.tif | |
Focke-Wulf Fw 44 J Stieglitz | Germany | 0 | 35 | 1940 | 1960 | |||
Gloster Gauntlet II | United Kingdom | 1 | 24 | 1940 | 1945 | Supplied by the South African government | ||
Hanriot H.232.2 | France | 0 | 3 | 1941 | 1945 | |||
Jaktfalken II | Sweden | 0 | 3 | 1940 | 1945 | |||
Letov S 218 A Smolik | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 39 | 1930 | 1945 | |||
Polikarpov I-16 UTI | Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 1941 | 1943 | |||
Raab-Katzenstein RK-26 Tigerschwalbe | Weimar Republic | 0 | 1 | 1940 | 1940 | Civilian donation | ||
VL Pyry | Finland | 0 | 41 | 1939 | 1962 | |||
VL Sääski I and II | Finland | 0 | 33 | 1928 | 1943 | |||
VL Viima I and II | Finland | 0 | 24 | 1936 | 1962 |
Inter-war years
Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | Image | Details |
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Adaridi | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1924 | 1931 | |||
Aero A-11 | Czech Republic | 0 | 8 | 1927 | 1939 | |||
Albatros C.III | German Empire | 0 | 2 | 1919 | 1921 | |||
Avro 504K | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 1926 | 1930 | |||
Breguet 14A.2 | France | 0 | 30 | 1919 | 1927 | |||
Caudron C.59 | France | 0 | 3 | 1923 | 1931 | |||
Caudron C.60 | France | 0 | 64 | 1923 | 1936 | |||
Caudron G.3 | France | 0 | 19 | 1920 | 1924 | |||
Caudron G.4 | France | 0 | 1 | 1922 | 1922 | |||
D.F.W. C.V | German Empire | 0 | 2 | 1918 | 1921 | |||
Fokker D.X | German Empire | 0 | 1 | 1923 | 1926 | |||
Fokker D.VII | German Empire | 0 | 3 | 1919 | 1924 | |||
Friedrichshafen FF.33E | German Empire | 0 | 3 | 1918 | 1923 | |||
Friedrichshafen FF.41A | German Empire | 0 | 1 | 1918 | 1923 | |||
Friedrichshafen FF.49B Friedrichshafen FF.49C |
German Empire | 0 | 5 | 1918 | 1922 | |||
Georges Levy G.L.40 HB2 | France | 0 | 12 | 1919 | 1922 | |||
Gourdou-Leseurre GL-21 B2 Gourdou-Leseurre GL-21 B3 |
France | 0 | 20 | 1923 | 1931 | |||
I.V.L. A.22 Hansa | Finland | 0 | 120 | 1922 | 1936 | |||
I.V.L. C.24 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1924 | 1924 | |||
I.V.L. C.VI.25 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1925 | 1925 | |||
I.V.L. D.26 Haukka I IVL D.26 Haukka II |
Finland | 0 0 |
1 2 |
1927 1928 |
1927 1930 |
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IVL K.1 Kurki | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1927 | 1927 | |||
Junkers A 35 | Weimar Republic | 0 | 1 | 1928 | 1928 | |||
Koolhoven F.K.31 | Netherlands | 0 | 12 | 1926 | 1932 | |||
L.V.G. C.VI | German Empire | 0 | 2 | 1922 | 1923 | Ex Swedish airline | ||
Martinsyde F.4 Buzzard | United Kingdom | 0 | 15 | 1923 | 1939 | |||
Morane-Saulnier MS 50C | France | 0 | 6 | 1925 | 1932 | |||
N.A.B. Typ 12 Albatros N.A.B. Typ 17 Albatros Jagare N.A.B. Typ 9 Albatros SW 20 Albatros |
Sweden | 0 | 1 1 2 1 |
1918 1918 1918 1918 |
1918 1919 1923 13 Apr 1918 |
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Nieuport 10 | Russian Empire | 0 | 3 | 1918 | 1919 | |||
Nieuport 11 | Russian Empire | 0 | 1 | 1918 | 1923 | |||
Nieuport 23 | Russian Empire | 0 | 2 | 1918 | 1920 | |||
Potez 25 A2 | France | 0 | 1 | 1927 | 1936 | |||
Rumpler 6B1 Rumpler 6B2 |
German Empire | 0 0 |
1 1 |
1918 1918 |
25 Oct 1919 1926 |
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Rumpler C.VIII | German Empire | 0 | 1 | 1918 | 1925 | |||
S.I.A.I. (Savoia) S.9 | Italy | 0 | 2 | 1919 | 1920 | |||
Spad S.34 | France | 0 | 2 | 1921 | 1925 | |||
Spad S.VII | France | 0 | 1 | 1919 | 1923 | |||
Shchetinin M-5 | Russian Empire | 0 | 1 | 1918 | 1920 | |||
Shchetinin M-9 | Russian Empire | 0 | 9 | 1918 | 1922 | |||
Shchetinin M-15 | Russian Empire | 0 | 2 | 1918 | 1919 | |||
Shchetinin M-16 | Russian Empire | 0 | 6 | 1918 | 1923 | |||
Thulin LA | Sweden | 0 | 1 | 1918 | 1919 | |||
Thulin typ D | Sweden | 0 | 2 | 1918 | 1919 | |||
VL Paarma | Finland | 0 | 1 | 1931 | 1933 |
References
External links
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of military aircraft of Finland.
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