Name | Origin | Primary role(s) | Year introduced | Year retired | # used | Notes |
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 | [7] |
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 | [5] |
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 | [note 1][9] |
Dassault Ouragan | France | Fighter | 1953 | 1967 | 104 | [note 2][10][11] |
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 | [12] |
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 | [note 3] |
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 | [note 4] |
de Havilland Vampire T.11 | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1963 | ? | 7 | |
de Havilland Vampire T.55 | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 1953 | 1982 | 124 | [note 5] |
English Electric Canberra | United Kingdom | Bomber/Reconnaissance | 1957 | 2007 | 150 | [13] |
Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar | United States | Transport | 1953 | 1984 | 89 | |
Folland Gnat | United Kingdom | Fighter | 1958 | 1978 | ? | [note 6] |
HAL HF-24 Marut | India | Fighter-bomber | 1961 | 1985 | 147 | [14] |
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 | [note 7][15] |
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 | [note 8] |
Sikorsky S-55 | United States | Helicopter | 1954 | 1966 | 8 | [note 9] |
Sikorsky S-62B | United States | Helicopter | 1960 | 1979 | 2 | |
Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI & XIX | United Kingdom | Reconnaissance | 1947 | 1959 | 15 | [5] |
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 | [16] |
Tupolev Tu-124 | Soviet Union | Transport | 1966 | 1981 | 3 | |
Acquisitions after 1971 war |
HAL Ajeet | India | Fighter | 1977 | 1991 | 89 | [note 10] |
HAL HPT-32 Deepak | India | Primary trainer | 1984 | 2009 | 144 | [17] |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 BN | Soviet Union | Fighter-bomber | 1981 | 2009 | 95 | [18] |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 MF | Soviet Union | Fighter | 1982 | 2007 | 40 | |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 RBK & RU | Soviet Union | Reconnaissance | 1981 | 2006 | 10 | [note 11][19] |
Mikoyan MiG-27 | Soviet Union | Fighter | 1985 | 2019 | 165 | [20] |
PZL TS-11 Iskra bis D | Poland | Basic trainer | 1975 | 2004 | 76 | [note 12][21] |
SEPECAT Jaguar GR.I | United Kingdom/France | Ground attack | 1979 | 1984 | 16 | [note 13] |