# 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

| Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | 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 | 18 | 2009 | |
| BAE Hawk Mk.51A | United Kingdom | Two-seat trainer | 7 | 7 | 1993 | |
| BAE Hawk Mk.51 | United Kingdom | Two-seat trainer | 7 | 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-17s 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 | 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 | 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 | China | Lightweight quadcopter drone | 150 | 150 | 2019 | |

## Post-WWII aircraft, propeller-driven

| Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | 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 IIPiper PA-28RT-201 Arrow IV | United States | Liaison aircraft | 00 | 64 | 19741980 | 20042004 | |
| Piper PA-31 NavajoPA-31-350 Chieftain | United States | Liaison aircraft | 00 | 16 | 19741983 | 19752010 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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-1Curtiss Hawk 75A-2Curtiss Hawk 75A-3Curtiss Hawk 75A-4Curtiss Hawk 75A-6 | United States | | 0 | 699713 | 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 IHawker Hurricane IIA | United Kingdom | | 0 | 121 | 1940 | 1944 |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6Messerschmitt Bf 109G-8 | Germany | | 0 | 481092 | 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 | 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-1Dornier Do 17 Z-2Dornier Do 17 Z-3 | Germany | | 0 | 429 | 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-2Petlyakov Pe-3 | Soviet Union | | 00 | 71 | 19411943 | 19461944 | |
| 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

| Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired |
| Blackburn Ripon IIF | United Kingdom | | 0 | 26 | 1929 | 1944 |
| Fokker C.VDFokker C.VE | Netherlands | | 0 | 217 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 34Junkers K 43F | Weimar Republic | | 0 | 12 | 1930 | 1952 |
| Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | Transport aircraft | 0 | 2 | 1942 | |

### Amphibious

| Model | Origin | Type | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired |
| Arado Ar 196 | Germany | A-2, A-3, A-5 | 0 | 12 | 1943 | 1945 |
| Beriev MBR-2Beriev MBR-2bis | Soviet Union | | 0 | 23 | 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 | 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

| Model | Origin | Operational | Quantity | In service | Retired | 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.49BFriedrichshafen FF.49C | German Empire | 0 | 5 | 1918 | 1922 | |
| Georges Levy G.L.40 HB2 | France | 0 | 12 | 1919 | 1922 | |
| Gourdou-Leseurre GL-21 B2Gourdou-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 IIVL D.26 Haukka II | Finland | 00 | 12 | 19271928 | 19271930 | |
| 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 AlbatrosN.A.B. Typ 17 Albatros JagareN.A.B. Typ 9 AlbatrosSW 20 Albatros | Sweden | 0 | 1121 | 1918191819181918 | 19181919192313 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 6B1Rumpler 6B2 | German Empire | 00 | 11 | 19181918 | 25 Oct 19191926 | |
| 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 | |