# List of historical aircraft of the Indian Air Force
## Aircraft

* Westland Wapiti, one of the first aircraft flown by the Royal Indian Air Force
* Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber over the Deccan plateau in the early 1950s.
* Canberra medium bomber.
* Mystere IVA being armed with cannon rounds during September 1965.
| Name | Origin | Primary role(s) | Year introduced | Year retired | # used |
| Pre World War II |||||||
| Westland Wapiti | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1933 | 1942 | 28 |
| World War II |||||||
| Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta | United Kingdom | Transport | 1941 | 1944 | 5 |
| Avro Anson I | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1942 | 1945 | 7 |
| Boulton Paul Defiant TT.III | United Kingdom | Target tug | 1944 | 1945 | ? |
| Bristol Blenheim I | United Kingdom | Bomber | 1941 | 1942 | 5 |
| de Havilland D.H.86B | United Kingdom | Transport | 1940 | 1942 | 2 |
| de Havilland Dragon Rapide | United Kingdom | Transport | 1941 | 1945 | 4 |
| de Havilland Tiger Moth | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1939 | 1957 | 192 |
| Douglas Dakota | United States | Transport | 1944 | 1987 | 206 |
| Fairchild PT-19 | United States | Basic trainer | 1943 | 1946 | 40 |
| Harlow PC-5A | United States | Transport | 1941 | 1942 | 4 |
| Hawker Audax | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1939 | 1945 | 7 |
| Hawker Hart | United Kingdom | Bomber | 1939 | 1942 | 7 |
| Hawker Hind | United Kingdom | Bomber | 1939 | 1941 | 6 |
| Hawker Hurricane | United Kingdom | Fighter-bomber | 1942 | 1945 | ? |
| North American Harvard Mk.II and 4 | Canada | Basic trainer | 1942 | 1973 | ? |
| Supermarine Spitfire Vc & VIIIc | United Kingdom | Fighter/Reconnaissance | 1943 | 1948 | 19 |
| Vickers Valentia | United Kingdom | Transport | 1942 | 1944 | 1 |
| Vultee Vengeance | United States | Bomber | 1942 | 1945 | 35 |
| Westland Lysander II | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1941 | 1943 | 25 |
| Westland Lysander III.T | United Kingdom | Target tug | 1941 | 1942 | 48 |
| Post World War II |||||||
| Airspeed Oxford | United Kingdom | Transport | 1946 | 1949 | 5 |
| Auster AOP.6 | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1946 | 1970 | 20 |
| Hawker Tempest II | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1945 | 1955 | 235 |
| Supermarine Spitfire FR.XIVE & FR.XVIII | United Kingdom | Fighter/Reconnaissance | 1945 | 1957 | 120 |
| Post independence acquisitions |||||||
| Aero Ae-45 | Czechoslovakia | Transport | 1955 | 1957 | 1 |
| Antonov An-12 | Soviet Union | Transport | 1961 | 1993 | 65 |
| Auster AOP.9 | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1955 | 1981 | 35 |
| Bell 47G-2 | United States | Helicopter | 1957 | 1979 | 15 |
| Consolidated B-24J Liberator | United States | Bomber | 1948 | 1967 | 45 |
| Dassault Ouragan | France | Fighter | 1953 | 1967 | 104 |
| Dassault Mystère IV | France | Fighter | 1957 | 1973 | 104 |
| de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter | Canada | Transport | 1956 | 1998 | 36 |
| de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou | Canada | Transport | 1963 | 1991 | 26 |
| de Havilland Devon | United Kingdom | Transport | 1947 | 1991 | 22 |
| de Havilland Vampire F.3 | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1948 | 1955 | 3 |
| de Havilland Vampire FB.52 | United Kingdom | Fighter-bomber | 1950 | 1974 | 286 |
| de Havilland Vampire NF.10 | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1953 | 1955 | 30 |
| de Havilland Vampire NF.54 | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1953 | 1966 | 30 |
| de Havilland Vampire PR.55 | United Kingdom | Reconnaissance | 1954 | 1965 | 5 |
| de Havilland Vampire T.11 | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1963 | ? | 7 |
| de Havilland Vampire T.55 | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1953 | 1982 | 124 |
| English Electric Canberra | United Kingdom | Bomber/Reconnaissance | 1957 | 2007 | 150 |
| Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar | United States | Transport | 1953 | 1984 | 89 |
| Folland Gnat | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1958 | 1978 | ? |
| HAL HF-24 Marut | India | Fighter-bomber | 1961 | 1985 | 147 |
| HAL HT-2 | India | Basic trainer | 1953 | 1998 | 169 |
| Hawker Hunter FGA.56 | United Kingdom | Fighter-bomber | 1957 | 1996 | 167 |
| Hawker Hunter T.66 | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1959 | 1992 | 40 |
| Ilyushin Il-14 | Soviet Union | Transport | 1955 | 1981 | 29 |
| Lockheed Super Constellation | United States | Transport | 1961 | 1981 | 9 |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21FL | Soviet Union | Fighter | 1964 | 2013 | 332 |
| Mil Mi-4 | Soviet Union | Helicopter | 1960 | 1988 | 121 |
| North American T-6G Texan | United States | Basic trainer | 1973 | ? | |
| Percival Prentice T.3 | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1947 | 1963 | 62 |
| Sikorsky S-55 | United States | Helicopter | 1954 | 1966 | 8 |
| Sikorsky S-62B | United States | Helicopter | 1960 | 1979 | 2 |
| Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI & XIX | United Kingdom | Reconnaissance | 1947 | 1959 | 15 |
| Supermarine Spitfire T.IX | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1947 | 1955 | 10 |
| Vickers Viscount | United Kingdom | Transport | 1955 | 1971 | 2 |
| Acquisitions after 1965 war |||||||
| HAL Krishak | India | Liaison | 1965 | 1988 | 68 |
| HAL Pushpak | India | Basic trainer | 1965 | 1967 | 25 |
| Hawker Hunter F.56 | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1966 | 1992 | 55 |
| Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter | Soviet Union | Fighter-bomber | 1968 | 1986 | 140 |
| Tupolev Tu-124 | Soviet Union | Transport | 1966 | 1981 | 3 |
| Acquisitions after 1971 war |||||||
| HAL Ajeet | India | Fighter | 1977 | 1991 | 89 |
| HAL HPT-32 Deepak | India | Primary trainer | 1984 | 2009 | 144 |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 BN | Soviet Union | Fighter-bomber | 1981 | 2009 | 95 |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 MF & ML | Soviet Union | Fighter | 1982 | 2007 | 40 |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 RBK & RU | Soviet Union | Reconnaissance | 1981 | 2006 | 10 |
| Mikoyan MiG-27 ML | Soviet Union | Fighter | 1985 | 2019 | 165 |
| PZL TS-11 Iskra bis D | Poland | Basic trainer | 1975 | 2004 | 76 |
| SEPECAT Jaguar GR.I | United Kingdom/France | Ground attack | 1979 | 1984 | 16 |