# List of aircraft of the Swiss Air Force

Since its formation, the Swiss Air Force has used a number of different aircraft.

## Aircraft
### Current inventory

| Aircraft | Origin | Type | Variant | In service | Notes |
| Combat aircraft ||||||
| F-5 Tiger II | United States | light fighter | F-5E | 18 | 6 assigned to the Patrouille Suisse |
| F/A-18 Hornet | United States | multirole | F/A-18C | 25 | |
| F-35 Lightning II | United States | stealth multirole | F-35A | 0 | 36 on order - F/A-18 replacement |
| Transport ||||||
| Pilatus PC-6 | Switzerland | utility / transport | | 14 | STOL capable aircraft |
| Bombardier Challenger 600 | Canada | VIP / MEDEVAC | CL604 | 2 | |
| Bombardier Global 7500 | Canada | VIP | | 1 | |
| Dassault Falcon 900 | France | VIP | 900EX | 1 | |
| Cessna Citation Excel | United States | VIP | 560XL | 1 | |
| Super King Air | United States | Transport/photomapping | 300C | 1 | operated for the Swiss Office of Topography |
| DHC-6 Twin Otter | Canada | photomapping | | 1 | operated for the Swiss Office of Topography |
| Pilatus PC-12 | Switzerland | FLORAKO test flights / transport | | 1 | Armasuisse |
| Diamond DA42 Twin Star | Austria/United States | Test aircraft | MPP Centaur OPA | 1 | Armasuisse |
| Helicopters ||||||
| Aérospatiale AS 332M1 Super Puma | France | utility / SAR | | 15 | TH89 prior to modernisation, TH06 after modernisation |
| Eurocopter AS532 Cougar | France | utility / SAR | AS532UL | 10 | 12 purchased, 1 lost in 2011, 1 lost in 2016. TH98 when purchased, 9 modernised to standard TH18 |
| Eurocopter EC635 | Germany | utility / VIP | EC635 P2+ | 19 | 2 configured for VIP 1 lost in 2024 |
| Trainer aircraft ||||||
| Pilatus PC-7 | Switzerland | trainer | | 27 | |
| Pilatus PC-21 | Switzerland | primary trainer | | 7 | |
| F-5 Tiger II | United States | conversion trainer | F-5F | 5 | |
| F/A-18 Hornet | United States | conversion trainer | F/A-18D | 5 | |
| UAV ||||||
| KZD-85 | Switzerland | Target drone | | 41 | in service from 1985 |
| Elbit Hermes 900 | Israel | surveillance | | 2 | 4 on order |

### Retired

| Aircraft | Origin | Type | Variant | In service | Notes |
| Combat aircraft ||||||
| Mirage III | France | fighter | IIIS | 30 | retired in 1999 |
| P-51 Mustang | United States | fighter | | 131 | in service from 1949 to 1957 |
| Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 | France | fighter | | 322 | in service from 1939 to 1956 |
| Messerschmitt Bf 109 | Germany | fighter | | 129 | in service from 1939 to 1949 |
| Dewoitine D.27 | France | fighter | | 66 | in service from 1928 to 1944 |
| Hanriot HD.1 | France | fighter | | 16 | in service from 1921 to 1930 |
| Nieuport 28 | France | fighter | | 15 | in service from 1918 to 1930 |
| Potez 25 | France | bomber | | 2 | in service from 1938 to 1944 |
| de Havilland Mosquito | United Kingdom | bomber | | 2 | in service from 1944 to 1954 |
| de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | | 182 | in service from 1946 to 1990 |
| de Havilland Venom | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | F.50/54 | 226 | in service from 1954 to 1984 |
| Hawker Hunter | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | TF.58 | 125 | retired from service 1994 |
| Reconnaissance ||||||
| ADS-95 | Switzerland | Reconnaissance UAV | | 28 (2 crashed) | Retired November 2019 |
| Mirage III | France | reconnaissance | IIIRS | 18 | retired in 1999 |
| de Havilland Venom | United Kingdom | reconnaissance | F.50/54 | 32 | in service from 1956 to 1987 |
| EKW C-36 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | | 160 | in service from 1942 to 1987 |
| Fokker C.V | Netherlands | reconnaissance | | 64 | in service from 1927 to 1954 |
| EKW C-35 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | | 160 | in service from 1937 to 1954 |
| Häfeli DH-5 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | | 80 | in service from 1922 to 1940 |
| Häfeli DH-3 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | | 109 | in service from 1917 to 1939 |
| Häfeli DH-1 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | | 6 | in service from 1916 to 1919 |
| Piper Super Cub | United States | observation | | 6 | in service from 1948 to 1975 |
| Fieseler Fi 156 | Germany | observation | | 5 | in service from 1940 to 1963 |
| Potez 25 | France | observation | | 17 | in service from 1927 to 1940 |
| Dornier Do 27 | Germany | communications | | 3 | retired in 2005 |
| Messerschmitt Bf 108 | Germany | communications | | 18 | in service from 1938 to 1959 |
| Beechcraft Twin Bonanza | United States | communications | | 3 | in service from 1957 to 1989 |
| Transport ||||||
| Pilatus PC-24 | Switzerland | VIP | PC-24 | 1 | in service from 2019 to 2022 |
| Dassault Falcon 50 | France | VIP | | 1 | replaced by a Falcon 900EX in 2013 |
| Beechcraft 1900 | United States | VIP | | 1 | replaced by two CL604 in 2020 |
| Learjet 35 | United States | VIP | | 2 | in service from 1987 to 2006 |
| Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | transport | | 3 | in service from 1939 to 1981 |
| Beechcraft Expeditor | United States | transport | | 3 | in service from 1948 to 1969 |
| Siebel Si 204 | Germany | transport | | 1 | in service from 1945 to 1955 |
| Messerschmitt M 18 | Germany | transport | | 4 | in service from 1929 to 1954 |
| Helicopters ||||||
| AS365 Dauphin | France | VIP | | 1 | retired in 2009 |
| Aérospatiale Alouette II | France | utility / SAR | | 30 | retired around 2012 |
| Aérospatiale Alouette III | France | utility / liaison | | 76 | replaced by the Eurocopter EC635 by 2010 |
| Sud-Ouest Djinn | France | light utility | | 4 | in service from 1958 to 1964 |
| Hiller UH-12 | United States | observation | | 3 | in service from 1952 -1962 |
| Trainer aircraft ||||||
| Pilatus PC-9 | Switzerland | target tug/trainer | PC-9/F | 12 | 4 were used in the last years, retired in 2022 |
| BAE Hawk | United Kingdom | primary trainer | Hawk 66 | 19 | 18 surviving aircraft sold to Finland in 2008 |
| Mirage III | France | conversion trainer | IIIBS/DS | 2/2 | retired in 2003 |
| Pilatus P-3 | Switzerland | trainer | | 60 | retired in 1995 |
| Hawker Hunter | United Kingdom | conversion trainer | T.68 | 7 | retired in 1994 |
| de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | jet trainer | T.55 | 35 | retired in 1990 |
| Pilatus P-2 | Switzerland | trainer | | 55 | in service from 1945 to 1981 |
| Beechcraft MQM-61 Cardinal | United States | Target UAV | | 10 | retired in 1965 |
| Bücker Bü 131 | Germany | trainer | | 94 | in service from 1936 to 1971 |
| North American Harvard | Canada | trainer | IIB | 40 | in service from 1948 to 1968 |
| Bücker Bü 133 | Germany | trainer | | 52 | in service from 1937 to 1968 |
| Focke-Wulf | Germany | trainer | | 1 | in service from 1945 to 1953 |
| Nardi FN.315 | Italy | trainer | | 2 | in service from 1944 to 1948 |
| Dewoitine D.26 | France | trainer | | 11 | in service from 1931 to 1948 |
| Morane-Saulnier MS.229 | France | trainer | | 2 | in service from 1931 to 1941 |
| Nieuport 28 | France | trainer | | 5 | in service from 1917 to 1921 |
| UAV ||||||
| RUAG Ranger ADS 90 | Switzerland | surveillance | | ? | in service from 1988 to 1999 |
| RUAG Ranger ADS 95 | Switzerland | surveillance | | 28 | in service from 1999 to 2019 |