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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
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 54 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
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
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
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
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
Piper PA-31 Navajo
PA-31-350 Chieftain 		  United States Liaison aircraft 0
0 		1
6 		1974
1983 		1975
2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

  1. ^ a b c "Hawk 40 år i Finland - Flygvapnet". ilmavoimat.fi.
  2. ^ Lee, David (June 17, 2019). "DJI Supplies 150 Drones To Finnish Defense Forces".

External links

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