# List of canard aircraft

This is a list of canard aircraft, having a foreplane in front of the main wing instead of a conventional tailplane.
| Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Status | No. | Notes |
| AASI Jetcruzer | USA | Jet | Transport | 1989 | Prototype | 5 | Pusher configuration. |
| AEA June Bug | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1908 | Prototype | 1 | |
| AeroCad AeroCanard | USA | Propeller | Private | | Homebuilt | 24 | Pusher propeller. |
| ALR Piranha | Switzerland | Jet | Multi-role fighter | 1980 | Project | 0 | |
| Ambrosini SS.4 | Italy | Propeller | Fighter | 1939 | Prototype | 1 | Pusher propeller. |
| ASL monoplane No.1 | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1909 | Prototype | | Pusher propeller. |
| ASL monoplane No.2 | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1910 | Prototype | | Pusher propeller. |
| ASL Valkyrie | UK | Propeller | Private | 1910 | Production | ~11 | Mid-engined pusher configuration, with propeller in front of wing. Several variants. |
| Atlas Cheetah | South Africa | Jet | Fighter | 1986 | Production | 70 | Modified Dassault Mirage III airframes. Several variants. |
| Aviafiber Canard 2FL | Switzerland | Glider | Private | 1978 | Production | | Foot-launched. The pilot was accommodated inside a fuselage and withdrew their legs through a hatch in the underside. |
| Avro 730 | UK | Jet | Bomber | 1957 | Project | 0 | Mach 3 performance. |
| Avtek 400 | USA | Propeller | Transport | 1984 | Prototype | 1 | Pusher configuration. |
| Beech Starship | USA | Propeller | Transport | 1986 | Production | 53 | Pusher configuration. |
| Beltrame Colibri | Italy | Propeller | Private | 1938 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Besson canard | France | Propeller | Private | 1911 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Berkut 360 | USA | Propeller | Private | 1989 | Homebuilt | 31 | |
| Blériot V | France | Propeller | Experimental | 1907 | Prototype | 1 | Pusher configuration. |
| Chengdu J-9 | China | Jet | Fighter | 1975 | Project | 0 | |
| Chengdu J-10 | China | Jet | Fighter | 1998 | Production | 468 | |
| Chengdu J-20 | China | Jet | Fighter | 2011 | Production | 150 | |
| Chudzik CC-1 | France | Propeller | Private | 1987 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Cosy Classic | USA | Propeller | Private | | Homebuilt | | Variant of the Cozy III, Europeanised by Uli Wolter. The Çapar Mechanical Engineering company produced at least one example in Turkey. |
| Cozy | USA | Propeller | Private | | Homebuilt | | |
| Cozy III | USA | Propeller | Private | 1982 | Homebuilt | | |
| Cozy MK IV | USA | Propeller | Private | 1993 | Homebuilt | | |
| Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender | USA | Propeller | Fighter | 1943 | Prototype | 3 | Pusher configuration. |
| Dassault Mirage III | France | Jet | Fighter | 1981 | Production | | Variant with a small close-coupled canard. |
| Dassault Rafale | France | Jet | Fighter | 1986 | Production | 201 | |
| Diehl AeroNautical XTC Hydrolight | USA | Propeller | Amphibious Ultralight | 1980s | Kit | | |
| Dixon Nipper | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1911 | Prototype | 1 | |
| e-Go | UK | Propeller | Private | 2013 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Eipper Lotus Microlight | USA | Propeller | | 1982 | | | |
| English Electric P.10 | UK | Jet | Reconnaissance | 1950s | Prototype | 0 | Mixed turbojet/ramjet propulsion with telescopic wings. |
| Eurofighter Typhoon | International | Jet | Multi-role fighter | 1994 | Production | 571 | |
| Fabre Hydravion | France | Propeller | Experimental | 1910 | Prototype | 1 | First airworthy seaplane. |
| Focke-Wulf F 19 | Germany | Propeller | Experimental | 1927 | Prototype | 2 | |
| Focke-Wulf Fw 42 | Germany | Propeller | Bomber | 1932 | Project | 0 | Twin-engined. |
| Freedom Aviation Phoenix | USA | Propeller | Homebuilt | 2007 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Grumman X-29 | USA | Jet | Experimental | 1984 | Prototype | 2 | Forward-Swept wing experimental aircraft. |
| Gyroflug Speed Canard | Germany | Propeller | Sports plane | 1980 | Production | 62 | |
| Hawker Siddeley P.1134 | UK | Jet | Experimental | 1959 | Project | 0 | P.1134/2 variant. |
| IAI Kfir C2 | Israel | Jet | Fighter | 1974 | Production | 220+ | Modified Dassault Mirage 5 airframes. Several variants. |
| IAI Lavi | Israel | Jet | Fighter | 1986 | Prototype | 5 | 3 completed, 1 of which was later disassembled |
| Junqua Ibis | France | Propeller | Homebuilt | 1991 | Operational | 11 | |
| Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden | Japan | Propeller | Fighter | 1945 | Prototype | 2 | Pusher configuration. |
| Latécoère 225 | France | Propeller | Ultralight Amphibious | 1984 | Prototype | 1 | Pusher configuration. |
| Lippisch Ente | Germany | Rocket | Experimental | 1928 | Prototype | 1 | First rocket powered aircraft. |
| Lockheed L-133 | USA | Jet | Fighter | 1942 | Project | 0 | |
| MacCready Gossamer Condor | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1977 | Operational | 1 | Human-powered aircraft. |
| MacCready Gossamer Albatross | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1979 | Operational | 1 | Human-powered aircraft. |
| MacCready Gossamer Penguin | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1979 | Operational | 1 | Solar-powered aircraft. |
| Messerschmitt P.1110 Ente | Germany | Jet | Fighter | 1945 | Project | 0 | Proposed for the Emergency Fighter Program |
| MiG-8 Utka | USSR | Propeller | Experimental | 1945 | Prototype | 1 | |
| North American A3J-1 Vigilante | USA | Jet | Attack | 1958 | Project | 0 | Proposal with variable geometery wings, free-floating apex and canards. |
| North American X-10 | USA | Jet | Experimental | 1953 | Operational | 13 | |
| North American SM-64 Navaho | USA | UAV | Attack | 1957 | Production | | Cruise missile. |
| North American XB-70 Valkyrie | USA | Jet | Bomber | 1964 | Prototype | 2 | Mach 3 performance, "waverider" wing. |
| Novi Avion | Yugoslavia | Jet | Multi-role | 1991 | Project | | |
| OMAC Laser 300 | USA | Propeller | Transport | 1981 | | 3 | Pusher configuration. |
| Wren 460 | Private | Propeller | | 2014 | Production | | |
| Piaggio P.180 Avanti | Italy | Propeller | Executive transport | 1986 | Production | | |
| Pterodactyl Ascender | USA | Propeller | | 1980 | | | Variant with a canard foreplane. |
| Qaher-313 | Iran | Jet | Fighter | 2013 | Project | | |
| Rockwell-MBB X-31 | USA/Germany | Jet | Experimental | 1990 | Prototype | 2 | |
| Roe I Biplane | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1908 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.1 | UK | Propeller | Experimental | 1911 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Rutan Amsoil Racer | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1981 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Rutan Defiant | USA | Propeller | | 1978 | | | |
| Rutan Long-EZ | USA | Propeller | | 1979 | Homebuilt | | |
| Rutan Solitaire | USA | Glider | | 1982 | Homebuilt | | Self-launching motor glider. |
| Rutan VariEze | USA | Propeller | Private | 1975 | Homebuilt | | |
| Rutan VariViggen | USA | Propeller | Private | 1972 | Homebuilt | | |
| Rutan Voyager | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1986 | Operational | 1 | Round-the-world special. |
| Saab 37 Viggen | Sweden | Jet | Fighter | 1967 | Production | 329 | |
| Saab JAS 39 Gripen | Sweden | Jet | Fighter | 1988 | Production | 271 | |
| Santos-Dumont 14-bis | France | Propeller | Experimental | 1906 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Scaled Composites ARES | USA | Jet | Experimental | 1990 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Shenyang J-15 | China | Jet | Fighter | 2009 | Production | 50 | |
| Sukhoi Su-33 | USSR | Jet | Fighter | 1987 | Production | 33 | |
| Sukhoi T-4 | USSR | Jet | Bomber | 1972 | Prototype | 4 | Mach 3 performance. |
| Tupolev Tu-144 | USSR | Jet | Transport | 1968 | Production | | SST. Canard "moustache". |
| Sukhoi Su-34 | Russia | Jet | fighter-bomber | 1990 | Production | | |
| Sukhoi Su-30 MKI | Russia-India | Jet | Fighter | 1989 | Production | | License-built variant of the Sukhoi Su-30. |
| Sukhoi Su-37 | Russia | Jet | Fighter | 1996 | Prototype | | |
| Sukhoi Su-47 | Russia | Jet | Experimental | 1997 | Prototype | | Main wing is forward-swept. |
| Velocity SE | USA | Propeller | | | | | |
| Velocity XL | USA | Propeller | | | | | |
| Archdeacon Glider | France | Glider | Experimental | 1904 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Voisin Canard | France | Propeller | | 1911 | | | |
| Wright Glider | USA | Glider | Experimental | 1902 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Wright Flyer | USA | Propeller | Experimental | 1903 | Prototype | 1 | |
| Wright Stagger-Ez | USA | Propeller | | | | | Three-seat modification of the Rutan Long-EZ. |