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This is a list of aircraft of Canada's air forces.
Aircraft are listed for the following organizations:
- Canadian Aviation Corps (1914–1915) which operated a single Burgess-Dunne tailless floatplane
- Canadian Air Force (CAF) (1920–1924) while under the control of the Air Board.
- Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) (1924–1968) until amalgamated with the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Army to form a unified Canadian Forces.
- Canadian Forces (CAF/CF) (1968–2011) until Canadian Forces Air Command renamed Royal Canadian Air Force again
- Royal Canadian Air Force (2011–current)
This list only includes aircraft owned by the Canadian government, and excludes aircraft flown by Canadian pilots serving with the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Flying Corps Canada or Royal Air Force, including the Article XV squadrons.
From 1917 to November 1918 the British government funded and operated the Royal Flying Corps Canada (later Royal Air Force Canada) which trained aviators on the approximately 1,210 Curtiss Canucks built in Canada, 120 Curtiss JN-4s built in the US, as well as two Avro 504s and one Airco DH.6 built in Canada.
In 1918 the Canadian government formed the Canadian Air Force in Europe which consisted of two wings integrated into the normal Royal Air Force command structure, equipped with Sopwith Dolphins, Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5as and Airco DH.9As supplied and owned by the RAF. It was disbanded in 1920. When the war ended some of these same types were offered to Canada as a part of the Imperial Gift, along with a batch of Fokker D.VIIs captured from Germany, which aside from some illicit flights were relegated primarily to storage and use as instructional airframes.
Independently of the RCAF, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) also operated aircraft; upon unification, CAF/CF assumed operational responsibility for all remaining RCN Canadair CT-133 Silver Star, Grumman CS2F Tracker, Sikorsky HO4S-3, and Sikorsky CHSS-2 Sea King aircraft.
Designations
During the First World War no official standards existed for the naming of aircraft and so all designations at this time were assigned by the original manufacturer and both numbers and names were used. From 1918, aircraft were given names based on a set of rules, and individual variants designated numerically as mark I, mark II, etc. as per RAF practice, including aircraft purchased from American sources. For more information on specifics of the system, see British military aircraft designation systems. Aircraft purchased from local sources often retained their original commercial names such as with the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 or the Waco AQC-6, particularly if purchased in small numbers, impressed or not purchased from the original manufacturer. CF-100 and CF-105 were Avro Canada company designations that preceded similar RCAF designations that became the basis for the Canadian Forces designations instituted in February 1968. Unlike the US designation system, there is only a single sequence rather than separate sequences for each role, and numbering started at 100, prefixed with C (for Canada) and a role letter or letters. According to R. W. Walker. 102 and 103 were not used in the CF system to avoid confusion with Avro's use of those numbers for the cancelled Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner and the Avro Canada CF-103 interceptor project.[1]
Aircraft listing
Type | 1968 CF designator |
Origin | Primary role(s) |
Introduced | Status | No. | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Advanced Ceramics Research Silver Fox | CU-167 | UK | UAV | 2004 | ? | 4+ | [1][2] |
AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven | n/a | US | UAV | n/a | n/a | n/a | |
AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma | n/a | US | UAV | 2018 | n/a | n/a | |
AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant | CH-149 | UK/Italy | SAR helicopter | 2000 | 14 in service (+2 on order) | 17 | [3] |
Airbus CC-150 Polaris | CC-150 | France | transport/tanker | 1992 | 5 In service | 5 | [4][note 1] |
Airbus CC-295 Kingfisher | CC-295 | Spain | SAR | 2019 | 1 In service | 16 | |
Airco DH.4 | n/a | UK | bomber | 1920 | Retired 1928 | 12 | [5] |
Airco DH.9A | n/a | UK | bomber | 1920 | Retired 1929 | 12 | [5] |
Airspeed Horsa | n/a | UK | transport glider | 1948 | Retired 1950 | 3 | [6] |
Airspeed Oxford | n/a | UK | trainer | 1939 | Retired 1947 | 819 | [6] |
Armstrong Whitworth Atlas | n/a | UK | reconnaissance | 1927 | Retired 1942 | 16 | [6] |
Armstrong Whitworth Siskin | n/a | UK | fighter | 1926 | Retired 1940 | 12 | [6] |
Auster AOP.6 & T.7 | n/a | UK | reconnaissance | 1948 | Retired 1958 | 42 | [7] |
Avro 504 | n/a | UK | trainer | 1920 | Retired 1934 | 97 | [7][note 2] |
Avro 552 Viper | n/a | Canada | forestry patrol | 1924 | Retired 1928 | 14 | [7] |
Avro Avian Mk.IVM | n/a | UK | transport/trainer | 1929 | Retired 1936 | 29 | [7] |
Avro 621 Tutor | n/a | UK | trainer | 1931 | Retired 1945 | 7 | [7] |
Avro 626 Prefect | n/a | UK | trainer | 1937 | Retired 1945 | 12 | [7] |
Avro Anson | n/a | UK/Canada | bomber/trainer | 1940 | Retired 1947 | 4,413 | [8] |
Avro Lancaster | n/a | UK | bomber | 1944 | Retired 1965 | 229 | [9] |
Avro Lincoln | n/a | UK/Canada | bomber | 1946 | Retired 1947 | 3 | [9] |
Avro Wright | n/a | Canada | forestry patrol | 1925 | Retired 1930 | 1 | [7] |
Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow | CF-105 | Canada | fighter | 1958 | Retired 1959 | 5 | [9] |
Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck | CF-100 | Canada | fighter | 1951 | Retired 1984 | 692 | [4][9] |
BAE Systems Hawk | CT-155 | UK | trainer | 2000 | Retired 2024 | 22 | [10] |
BAE Systems Silver Fox | n/a | UK | UAV | 2004 | 4+ in service | 4+ | |
Barkley-Grow T8P-1 | n/a | US | transport | 1939 | Retired 1941 | 1 | [9][note 3] |
Beechcraft Expeditor | CT-128 | US | transport/trainer | 1941 | Retired 1972 | 394 | [11][12] |
Beechcraft Harvard II | CT-156 | US | trainer | 2000 | 24 in service | 26 | [13] |
Beechcraft King Air | CT-145 | US | transport/trainer | 1992 | 7 in service | 8 | [12] |
Beechcraft Mentor | n/a | US | trainer | 1954 | Retired 1956 | 25 | [14] |
Beechcraft Musketeer | CT-134 | US | trainer | 1971 | Retired 1992 | 46 | [12] |
Bell 47D & G | n/a | US | transport helicopter | 1948 | Retired 1965 | 9 | [14] |
Bell Griffon | CH-146 | Canada | transport helicopter | 1994 | 85 in service | 100 | [15] |
Bell Iroquois | CH-118 | US/Canada | transport helicopter | 1968 | Retired 1997 | 10 | [15] |
Bell Jet Ranger | CH-139 | US | transport helicopter | 1981 | Retired 1993 | 14 | [15] |
Bell Kiowa | CH-136 | US | transport helicopter | 1971 | Retired 1997 | 74 | [15] |
Bell Twin Huey | CH-135 | US | transport helicopter | 1971 | Retired 1999 | 50 | [15] |
Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker | n/a | US | transport | 1929 | Retired 1944 | 13 | [14] |
Blackburn Shark Mk.II & III | n/a | UK | bomber | 1936 | Retired 1944 | 26 | [14] |
Boeing 247D | n/a | US | transport | 1940 | Retired 1942 | 8 | [14][note 3] |
Boeing CC-137 | CC-137 | US | transport/tanker | 1970 | Retired 1997 | 5 | [15][note 4] |
Boeing Fortress Mk.II | n/a | US | patrol/transport | 1943 | Retired 1946 | 6 | [14] |
Boeing Globemaster III | CC-177 | US | transport | 2007 | 5 in service | 5 | [16] |
Boeing Insitu ScanEagle | CU-169 | US | UAV | 2008 | in service | ? | [1] |
Boeing Stratojet | n/a | US | engine testbed | 1956 | Retired 1959 | 1 | [14][note 5] |
Boeing CH-47C Chinook | CH-147 | US | transport helicopter | 1974 | Retired 1991 | 8 | [17] |
Boeing CH-47D Chinook | CH-147D | US | transport helicopter | 2008 | Retired 2011 | 6+1 Leased | [17][18] |
Boeing CH-47F Chinook | CH-147F | US | transport helicopter | 2013 | 15 in service | 15 | [18][19] |
Brewster Bermuda | n/a | US | bomber | 1943 | Retired 1946 | 3 | [14] |
Bristol Beaufort | n/a | UK | bomber | 1941 | Retired 1944 | 15 | [20] |
Bristol Blenheim Mk.IV | n/a | UK | bomber/trainer | 1941 | Retired 1945 | 1 | [14] |
Bristol F.2B Fighter | n/a | UK | fighter | 1920 | Retired 1922 | 2 | [14] |
Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke | n/a | Canada | bomber/trainer | 1939 | Retired 1947 | 626 | [21][note 6] |
Bristol Freighter | n/a | UK | transport | 1952 | Retired 1967 | 6 | [20] |
Burgess-Dunne | n/a | US | reconnaissance | 1914 | Retired 1914 | 1 | [20][note 7] |
Canadair Argus | CP-107 | Canada | patrol | 1957 | Retired 1988 | 33 | [20][22] |
Canadair C-5 North Star | n/a | Canada | transport | 1950 | Retired 1967 | 1 | [20] |
Canadair CF-5 Freedom Fighter | CF-116 | Canada | fighter/ground attack | 1968 | Retired 1995 | 133 | [22][note 8] |
Canadair Challenger | CC-144 | Canada | transport/trainer/patrol | 1983 | 4 in service | 18 | [22][23] |
Canadair Cosmopolitan | CC-109 | Canada | transport | 1960 | Retired 1994 | 13 | [20][note 9][22] |
Canadair CL-84 Dynavert | CX-131 | Canada | experimental VTOL | 1969 | Retired 1975 | 3 | [22] |
Canadair North Star | n/a | Canada | transport | 1947 | Retired 1966 | 24 | [20][note 10] |
Canadair Sabre | n/a | Canada | fighter | 1950 | Retired 1977 | 1,184 | [20][note 11][22] |
Canadair Silver Star | CT-133 | Canada | trainer/EW | 1953 | Retired 2005 | 656 | [20][note 12][24] |
Canadair Starfighter | CF-104 | Canada | fighter | 1961 | Retired 1988 | 200 | [20][note 13][25] |
Canadair Tutor | CT-114 | Canada | trainer | 1963 | 11 in service | 190 | [20][25][note 14] |
Canadair Yukon | CC-106 | Canada | transport | 1959 | Retired 1971 | 12 | [20][25] |
Canadian Vickers Vancouver | n/a | Canada | patrol | 1929 | Retired 1940 | 6 | [26] |
Canadian Vickers Vanessa | n/a | Canada | transport | 1927 | Retired 1927 | 1 | [26][note 15] |
Canadian Vickers Varuna | n/a | Canada | patrol | 1926 | Retired 1930 | 8 | [26] |
Canadian Vickers Vedette | n/a | Canada | forestry patrol | 1925 | Retired 1941 | 44 | [26][note 16] |
Canadian Vickers Velos | n/a | Canada | patrol | 1927 | Retired 1928 | 1 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=List_of_aircraft_of_the_Canadian_Air_Force