List of military aircraft of Finland

The following is a list of military aircraft of Finland, both historical and currently in use by the Finnish Defence Forces.

Current inventory

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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

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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-17s every year (3.2%). The aircraft operate from Pápa Air Base in Hungary.

Army Aviation

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Helicopters

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Fighters

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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

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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
Tupolev SB 2M-103U (MV-3) "SB-3"  Soviet Union 0 24 1941 1950
Douglas DC-2  United States 0 1 1940 1940 The Hanssin-Jukka [fi] was used as a bomber during the Winter War

Reconnaissance

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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

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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

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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
Junkers Ju 52  Germany Transport aircraft 0 2 1942

Amphibious

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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

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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
Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann  Germany Training aircraft 0 2 1937
Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister  Germany Training aircraft 0 1 1938
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

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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
Klemm Kl 25 D.VII R  Nazi Germany 0 3 1937 1972
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

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  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".
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