List of military aircraft of Sri Lanka

This is a list of aircraft of the Sri Lanka Air Force and the Sri Lanka Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA).

List of aircraft alphabetically by manufacturer

A

• AAI/IAI RQ-2 Pioneer
• Aerospatiale SA 365 Dauphin
• Airspeed Oxford
• Antonov An-32

B

• BAC Jet Provost
• Beechcraft 200
• Beechcraft Model 18 (transferred from the Surveyor General's Department)
• Bell 47 Sioux
• Bell 206 Jet Ranger
• Bell 212
• Bell 412
• Boulton Paul Balliol

C

• Cessna 150
• Cessna 336 Skymaster
• Cessna 421 Golden Eagle
• F-7 Skybolt
• FT-7M Skybolt
• Convair 240

D

• de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
• de Havilland DH.104 Dove
• de Havilland Heron
• de Havilland Tiger Moth (Transferred from the Ratmalana Civil Flying Training School)
• de Havilland Vampire
• Douglas Dakota

F

• FMA IA 58 Pucará

H

• HAL Chetak (FAA)
• Harbin Y-12
• Hawker Siddeley HS 748
• Hiller UH-12B

I

• IAI Kfir
• IAI Scout
• IAI Searcher Mk II

K

• Kamov Ka-26

L

• Lockheed Hercules
• Lihiniya MK I

M

• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23UB
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-27
• Mil Mi-17
• Mil Mi-24

N

• Nanchang CJ-6 (PT-6)
• K-8 Karakorum
• North American P-51 Mustang

P

• Pazmany PL-

S

• Scottish Aviation Pioneer
• Shaanxi Y-8
• Shenyang F-5
• Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly
• SIAI Marchetti SF.260TP
• SIAI Marchetti SF.260W

T

• Taylorcraft Auster

Current aircraft

Attack and Offensive Support Aircraft

• IAI Kfir
• F-7 Skybolt

Reconnaissance and Maritime Patrol Aircraft

• Beechcraft 200
• Lihiniya MK I

Transport Aircraft

• C-130 Hercules
• Antonov 32
• Harbin Y-12

Attack helicopters

• Mil Mi-24

Support and Transport Helicopters

• Mil Mi-17
• Bell 412
• Bell 212
• Bell 206

Training Aircraft

• K-8 Karakorum
• Nanchang CJ-6 (PT-6)
• Cessna 150
• Chengdu FT-7

Weapons

Air to Air Missiles

• PL-5 Thunderbolt^[1]

General-Purpose Bombs

• Mark 83
• Mark 82^[2]

Surface to Air Missiles

• SA-16 Gimlet

Air Defense Artillery

• Bofors L40/70 40 mm AA guns ^[3]
• ZSU-23-2 twin 23 mm AA guns^[3]
• TCM-20 twin 20 mm AA guns

Equipment

• INDRA low altitude 2D radar ^[4]
• CETC YLC-18 3D Radar.
• JY-11 Radar low/medium altitude 3D surveillance radar ^[5]

Surviving SLAF aircraft

Aircraft that have been preserved by the SLAF. A few of these fly but most are held by SLAF Museum.^[6]

• Airspeed Oxford
• Hawker Siddeley HS 748
• Sikorsky H-5 Dragonfly
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F
• FMA IA 58 Pucará
• BAC Jet Provost
• Boulton Paul Balliol
• de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
• de Havilland Heron
• de Havilland Tiger Moth

See also

• List of aircraft losses of the Sri Lankan Civil War

References

1. "PLA Second Artillery Corps". SinoDefence. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
2. "Surge in Pak arms sale to Sri Lanka worries India, Indianexpress". Archived from the original on 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
3. DefenceNet (4 November 2007). "DefenceNet: Defence News from Sri Lanka". Retrieved 24 December 2014.
4. "Columns - Situation Report". Retrieved 24 December 2014.
5. ISN Editors. "Intel Brief: China in Sri Lanka". International Relations And Security Network. Retrieved 24 December 2014. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
6. "Little known museums of Sri Lanka". Retrieved 24 December 2014.

External links

• Sri Lankan Air Force
• Little known museums of Sri Lanka:A rich collection of artefact's