Name | Origin | Primary role(s) | Year introduced | Year retired |
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Pre World War II | |||||||
Westland Wapiti | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1933 | 1942 | 28 | [1] | |
World War II | |||||||
Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta | United Kingdom | Transport | 1941 | 1944 | 5 | ||
Avro Anson I | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1942 | 1945 | 7 | [2] | |
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 | [3] [4] | |
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 | [5] | |
Vickers Valentia | United Kingdom | Transport | 1942 | 1944 | 1 | ||
Vultee Vengeance | United States | Bomber | 1942 | 1945 | 35 | [6] | |
Westland Lysander II | United Kingdom | Liaison | 1941 | 1943 | 25 | [7] | |
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 | [8] | |
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 | [9] [10] |-|Dassault Ouragan||France||Fighter||1953||1967||104||[11] [12] [13] |-|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||[14] |-|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||[15] |-|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||[16] |-|de Havilland Vampire T.11||United Kingdom||Basic trainer||1963||?||7|||-|de Havilland Vampire T.55||United Kingdom||Basic trainer||1953||1982||124||[17] |-|English Electric Canberra||United Kingdom||Bomber/Reconnaissance||1957||2007||150||[18] |-|Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar||United States||Transport||1953||1984||89|||-|Folland Gnat||United Kingdom||Fighter||1958||1978||?||[19] |-|HAL HF-24 Marut||India||Fighter-bomber||1961||1985||147||[20] |-|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||[21] [22] |-|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||[23] |-|Sikorsky S-55||United States||Helicopter||1954||1966||8||[24] |-|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|||-! colspan="7" |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||[25] |-|Tupolev Tu-124||Soviet Union||Transport||1966||1981||3|||-! colspan="7" |Acquisitions after 1971 war|-|HAL Ajeet||India||Fighter||1977||1991||89||[26] |-|HAL HPT-32 Deepak||India||Primary trainer||1984||2009||144||[27] |-|Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 BN||Soviet Union||Fighter-bomber||1981||2009||95||[28] |-|Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 MF||Soviet Union||Fighter||1982||2007||40|||-|Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 RBK & RU||Soviet Union||Reconnaissance||1981||2006||10||[29] |-|Mikoyan MiG-27||Soviet Union||Fighter||1985||2019||165||[30] |-|PZL TS-11 Iskra bis D||Poland||Basic trainer||1975||2004||76||[31] [32] |-|SEPECAT Jaguar GR.I||United Kingdom/France||Ground attack||1979||1984||16||[33] |}See alsoReferencesBibliography
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