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List of aircraft of Canada's air forces

List of aircraft of Canada's air forces

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This is a list of aircraft of Canada's air forces.
Aircraft are listed for the following organizations:

For Royal Canadian Navy aircraft prior to unification of Canada's armed forces, see list of aircraft of the Royal Canadian Navy.
RCAF Golden Hawks Canadair Sabres

This list only includes aircraft owned by the Canadian government, and excludes aircraft flown by Canadian pilots serving with the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Flying Corps Canada or Royal Air Force, including the Article XV squadrons.

From 1917 to November 1918 the British government funded and operated the Royal Flying Corps Canada (later Royal Air Force Canada) which trained aviators on the approximately 1,210 Curtiss Canucks built in Canada, 120 Curtiss JN-4s built in the US, as well as two Avro 504s and one Airco DH.6 built in Canada.

In 1918 the Canadian government formed the Canadian Air Force in Europe which consisted of two wings integrated into the normal Royal Air Force command structure, equipped with Sopwith Dolphins, Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5as and Airco DH.9As supplied and owned by the RAF. It was disbanded in 1920. When the war ended some of these same types were offered to Canada as a part of the Imperial Gift, along with a batch of Fokker D.VIIs captured from Germany, which aside from some illicit flights were relegated primarily to storage and use as instructional airframes.

Independently of the RCAF, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) also operated aircraft; upon unification, CAF/CF assumed operational responsibility for all remaining RCN Canadair CT-133 Silver Star, Grumman CS2F Tracker, Sikorsky HO4S-3, and Sikorsky CHSS-2 Sea King aircraft.

Designations

During the First World War no official standards existed for the naming of aircraft and so all designations at this time were assigned by the original manufacturer and both numbers and names were used. From 1918, aircraft were given names based on a set of rules, and individual variants designated numerically as mark I, mark II, etc. as per RAF practice, including aircraft purchased from American sources. For more information on specifics of the system, see British military aircraft designation systems. Aircraft purchased from local sources often retained their original commercial names such as with the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 or the Waco AQC-6, particularly if purchased in small numbers, impressed or not purchased from the original manufacturer. CF-100 and CF-105 were Avro Canada company designations that preceded similar RCAF designations that became the basis for the Canadian Forces designations instituted in February 1968. Unlike the US designation system, there is only a single sequence rather than separate sequences for each role, and numbering started at 100, prefixed with C (for Canada) and a role letter or letters. According to R. W. Walker. 102 and 103 were not used in the CF system to avoid confusion with Avro's use of those numbers for the cancelled Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner and the Avro Canada CF-103 interceptor project.[1]

Aircraft listing

More information Type, 1968 CF designator ...

See also

References

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Airbus A310-304/304F
  2. [N 2]
    2 examples built in Canada during World War I
  3. [N 3]
    Impressed
  4. [N 4]
    Boeing 707-347C
  5. [N 5]
    loaned from USAF for Arrow engine development
  6. [N 6]
    Canadian variant of Bristol Blenheim
  7. [N 7]
    Canada's first military aircraft
  8. [N 8]
    Northrop F-5 built under licence
  9. [N 9]
    modified Convair CV-240.
  10. [N 10]
    Douglas C-54 re-engined with Merlins
  11. [N 11]
    improved F-86
  12. [N 12]
    improved T-33 trainer, retired from flying 2002.
  13. [N 13]
    modified F-104G
  14. [N 14]
    in active service with 431 squadron as of 2014
  15. [N 15]
    trials/evaluation only
  16. [N 16]
    first aircraft designed for Canadian conditions
  17. [N 17]
    last example used as an instructional airframe until 1954
  18. [N 18]
    RCAF was first military to operate jet transports
  19. [N 19]
    some converted from FC-2
  20. [N 20]
    CT-102 designation has been used by DND but has not been announced as being official
  21. [N 21]
    Canadian-built Grumman G-23.
  22. [N 22]
    All operational Trackers built under licence by de Havilland Canada for RCN; 1 US-built S2F-1 obtained as pattern aircraft and subsequently used as stationary instructional airframe until 1972[37]
  23. [N 23]
    451 built in Canada
  24. [N 24]
    Built in Canada as the Canadair Silver Star.
  25. [N 25]
    Used for testing the Helicopter Integrated Navigation System (HINS) intended for the cancelled New Shipborne Aircraft program (NSA) that was initially intended to replace the Sea King.
  26. [N 26]
    two seat attack variant of Harvard with larger engine.
  27. [N 27]
    Pattern aircraft for Canadair Sabre production.
  28. [N 28]
    first all metal aircraft built in Canada.
  29. [N 29]
    Includes 15 R-1340 powered H-19 aircraft built for RCAF and 5 operational R-1300 powered HO4S-3 aircraft built for RCN; 8 other RCN HO4S-2/3 aircraft lost in accidents or placed in storage prior to unification[51]
  30. [N 30]
    ex-Royal Canadian Navy CHSS-2.
  31. [N 31]
    Leased aircraft, designation may not be official.
  32. [N 32]
    built in Canada under licence.
  33. [N 33]
    powered Waco Hadrian glider.

Citations

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  3. [3]
    Walker, R.W. CH-149 Cormorant detailed list accessdate: 21 January 2014
  4. [4]
    Griffin, 2005, p.12
  5. [5]
    Griffin, 1969, p.9
  6. [6]
    Griffin, 1969, p.3
  7. [7]
    Griffin, 1969, p.4
  8. [8]
    Griffin, 1969, p.4-5
  9. [9]
    Griffin, 1969, p.5
  10. [10]
    Walker, R.W. CT-155 Hawk detailed list retrieved: 21 January 2014
  11. [11]
    Griffin, 1969, p.5-6
  12. [12]
    Griffin, 2005, p.13
  13. [13]
    Walker, R.W. CT-156 Harvard II detailed list accessdate: 21 January 2014
  14. [14]
    Griffin, 1969, p.6
  15. [15]
    Griffin, 2005, p.14
  16. [16]
    Walker, R.W. Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers, Canadian Armed Forces CC-177 Globemaster detailed list Retrieved: 21 January 2014
  17. [17]
    "Canadian CH-147 CH-47C Model". www.helis.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-23. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
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    "Canadian CH-147D CH-47D Model". www.helis.com. Archived from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
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    Griffin, 1969, p.7
  21. [21]
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  22. [22]
    Griffin, 2005, p.15
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    Griffin, 2005, p.19
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    Griffin, 1969, p.11
  32. [32]
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  33. [33]
    Griffin, 1969, p.12
  34. [34]
    Griffin, 1969, p.13
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    LAROUCHE Pierre-Olivier, LANDRY Samuel, Tactical Fighter Squadron 3 Wing OJTs, Summer 2019
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    Griffin, 2005, pp.20-21
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  38. [38]
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  39. [39]
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  40. [40]
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  41. [41]
    Walker, R.W. CC-130 Hercules detailed list accessdate: 21 January 2014
  42. [42]
    Griffin, 2005, p.22
  43. [43]
    Griffin, 2005, p.16-17
  44. [44]
    Walker, R.W. CH-143 detailed list accessdate: 21 January 2014
  45. [45]
    "RCAF Doesn't Like To Admit it flew Russian Mil-17-V5s". The Canadian Armed Forces Dispatch. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
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  47. [47]
    Griffin, 1969, p.16
  48. [48]
    Griffin, 1969, p.15-16
  49. [49]
    Griffin, 1969, p.17
  50. [50]
    Griffin, 2005, p.23
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