page_title: List of de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operators
section_title: Military and government operators
hierarchical_section_title: List of de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operators / Military and government operators
caption_attribution_description: English: Pudahuel AFB, Santiago de Chile, September 2010
context_page_description: The Twin Otter was and is used by dozens of airlines and militaries around the world, and was produced in three main series until 1988.
  As of 2006, over 40 years after design and manufacturing work on the original DHC-6 began, more than 500 of this aircraft were still flying. In that year Viking Air purchased the type certificate for the DHC-6 and announced its intention to offer a new build Series 400 Twin Otter.
context_section_description: Including police users.
   Argentina
  Argentine Air Force (Marambio Base) / LADE
  Argentine Army
  Argentine Navy
   Benin
  Benin Air Force 1 
   Canada
  Royal Canadian Air Force (formerly Canadian Forces) - 4 CC-138s (DHC-6-300s) - Operated by 440 Transport Squadron in Yellowknife, NT
   Chile
  11 Chilean Air Force
   Colombia
  1? Colombian National Police
   Ecuador
  2 Ecuadorian Air Force (TAME)
   Ethiopia
  2 Ethiopian Air Force loaned from Army
   France
  5 French Air Force
   Haiti
  1 Haitian Air Force
   Jamaica
  ? (retired) Jamaica Defence Force
     Nepal
  ? (retired) Nepalese Army Air Service
  Nepalese Royal Flight
   Norway
  Royal Norwegian Air Force (Retired from active service)
   Panama
  Panamanian Public Forces 1 (Army until 1988)
  National Air and Naval Service of Panama
   Paraguay
  Paraguayan Air Force (retired)
   Peru
  Peruvian Air Force (12 series -400 recently purchased + 3 legacy series -300)
   Sudan
  Sudanese Air Force - one photo survey aircraft operated by Sudan Airways for the air force.
   Uganda
  Uganda Police Force Air Wing 
   United States
  1 United States Air Force
  1 United States Army
  1 NASA
   Vietnam
  6 Vietnamese People's Navy
caption: Chilean Air Force Twin Otter
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