List of aircraft of the Swiss Air Force
Since its formation, the Swiss Air Force has used a number of different aircraft.
Aircraft[]
Current inventory[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/J-3005.jpg/220px-J-3005.jpg)
A F-5E tiger II flies by at the 2012 Axalp live fire event
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/T-336_Cougar_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-T-336_Cougar_%28cropped%29.jpg)
An AS532 Cougar helicopter
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Swiss_F_A-18_Hornet_taking_off_from_Payerne_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Swiss_F_A-18_Hornet_taking_off_from_Payerne_%28cropped%29.jpg)
An F/A-18C taking off from Payerne air base
Aircraft | Origin | Type | Variant | In service | Notes | |
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Combat Aircraft | ||||||
Northrop F-5 | United States | fighter | F-5E | 29[1] | 6 assigned to the Patrouille Suisse team[2] | |
Boeing F/A-18 | United States | multirole | F/A-18C | 25[1] | To be replaced by 36 F-35A | |
Reconnaissance | ||||||
Super King Air | United States | photomapping | 300C | 1[3] | operated for the Swiss Office of Topography | |
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 | Canada | photomapping | 1[3] | operated for the Swiss Office of Topography[4] | ||
Diamond DA42 | Austria | reconnaissance | 1[1] | |||
Transport | ||||||
Dassault Falcon | France | VIP | 900EX | 1[5] | ||
Cessna Citation | United States | VIP | 560XL | 1[6] | ||
PC-6 Porter | Switzerland | utility / transport | 15[1] | STOL capable aircraft | ||
Bombardier Challenger | Canada | VIP / MEDEVAC | CL604 | 2[1][7] | ||
Helicopters | ||||||
Eurocopter EC635 | France / Germany | utility / VIP | EC635 P2+ | 18[1] | 2 configured for VIP | |
Eurocopter AS532 | France | transport / utility / SAR | AS332UL[8] | 24[1] | ||
Trainer Aircraft | ||||||
Northrop F-5 | United States | conversion trainer | F-5F | 6[1] | ||
Boeing F/A-18 | United States | conversion trainer | F/A-18D | 5[1] | ||
Pilatus PC-7 | Switzerland | trainer | 27[1] | |||
Pilatus PC-21 | Switzerland | primary trainer | 8[1] | |||
UAV | ||||||
RUAG Ranger | Switzerland | surveillance | 15[9] | |||
KZD-85 | Switzerland | surveillance | 30[10] |
Retired[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Swiss_Messerschmitt_Bf_109-E3_top_left_view.jpg/220px-Swiss_Messerschmitt_Bf_109-E3_top_left_view.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Dewoitine_D26_HB-RAI.jpg/220px-Dewoitine_D26_HB-RAI.jpg)
A vintage Dewoitine D.27 restored to flying condition
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Swiss_Air_Force_De_Havilland_DH-112_Mk_4_Venom_being_serviced.jpg/220px-Swiss_Air_Force_De_Havilland_DH-112_Mk_4_Venom_being_serviced.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Swiss_Dauphin_helicopter_1.jpg/220px-Swiss_Dauphin_helicopter_1.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Hawk_Mk66_U-1267_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Hawk_Mk66_U-1267_%28cropped%29.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Swiss_Hawker_Hunter_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Swiss_Hawker_Hunter_%28cropped%29.jpg)
A Swiss Hawker Hunter
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/EKW_C-35.jpg/220px-EKW_C-35.jpg)
A EKW C-35 multipurpose biplane
Aircraft | Origin | Type | Variant | In service | Notes | |
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Combat Aircraft | ||||||
Mirage III | France | fighter | IIIS | 30[11] | retired in 1999 | |
P-51 Mustang | United States | fighter | 131[12] | in service from 1949 to 1957 | ||
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 | France | fighter | 322[13] | in service from 1939 to 1956 | ||
Messerschmitt Bf 109 | Germany | fighter | 129[14] | in service from 1939 to 1949 | ||
Dewoitine D.27 | France | fighter | 66[15] | in service from 1928 to 1944 | ||
Hanriot HD.1 | France | fighter | 16[16] | in service from 1921 to 1930 | ||
Nieuport 28 | France | fighter | 15[17] | in service from 1918 to 1930 | ||
Potez 25 | France | bomber | 2[18] | in service from 1938 to 1944 | ||
de Havilland Mosquito | United Kingdom | bomber | 2[19] | in service from 1944 to 1954 | ||
Hawker Hunter | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | TF.58 | 125[11] | retired from service 1994 | |
de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | 182[20] | in service from 1946 to 1990 | ||
de Havilland Venom | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | F.50/54 | 226[21] | in service from 1954 to 1984 | |
Reconnaissance | ||||||
ADS-95 | Switzerland | Reconnaissance UAV | 28 (2crashed) | Retired November 2019[22] | ||
Mirage III | France | reconnaissance | IIIRS | 18[11] | retired in 1999 | |
de Havilland Venom | United Kingdom | reconnaissance | F.50/54 | 32[21] | in service from 1956 to 1987 | |
EKW C-36 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 160[23] | in service from 1942 to 1987 | ||
Fokker C.V | Netherlands | reconnaissance | 64[24] | in service from 1927 to 1954 | ||
EKW C-35 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 160[25] | in service from 1937 to 1954 | ||
Häfeli DH-5 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 80[26] | in service from 1922 to 1940 | ||
Häfeli DH-3 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 109[26] | in service from 1917 to 1939 | ||
Häfeli DH-1 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 6[26] | in service from 1916 to 1919 | ||
Piper Super Cub | United States | observation | 6[27] | in service from 1948 to 1975 | ||
Fieseler Fi 156 | Germany | observation | 5[28] | in service from 1940 to 1963 | ||
Potez 25 | France | observation | 17[18] | in service from 1927 to 1940 | ||
Dornier Do 27 | Germany | communications | 3[11] | retired in 2005 | ||
Messerschmitt Bf 108 | Germany | communications | 18[29] | in service from 1938 to 1959 | ||
Beechcraft Twin Bonanza | United States | communications | 3[11] | in service from 1957 to 1989 | ||
Transport | ||||||
Dassault Falcon 50 | France | VIP | 1[30] | replaced by a Falcon 900EX in 2013 | ||
Beechcraft 1900 | United States | VIP | 1 | replaced by two CL604 in 2020 | ||
Learjet 35 | United States | VIP | 2[11] | in service from 1987 to 2006 | ||
Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | transport | 3[31] | in service from 1939 to 1981 | ||
Beechcraft Expeditor | United States | transport | 3[32] | in service from 1948 to 1969 | ||
Siebel Si 204 | Germany | transport | 1[33] | in service from 1945 to 1955 | ||
Messerschmitt M 18 | Germany | transport | 4[34] | in service from 1929 to 1954 | ||
Helicopters | ||||||
AS365 Dauphin | France | VIP | 1[35] | retired in 2009 | ||
Aérospatiale Alouette II | France | utility / SAR | 30[11] | |||
Aérospatiale Alouette III | France | utility / liaison | 76[11] | replaced by the Eurocopter EC635[36] | ||
Sud-Ouest Djinn | France | light utility | 4[37] | in service from 1958 to 1964 | ||
Hiller UH-12 | United States | observation | 3[38] | in service from 1952 -1962 | ||
Trainer Aircraft | ||||||
BAE Hawk | United Kingdom | primary trainer | Hawk 66 | 19[39] | 18 surviving aircraft sold to Finland in 2008[40] | |
Mirage III | France | conversion trainer | IIIBS/DS | 2/2[11] | retired in 2003 | |
Pilatus P-3 | Switzerland | trainer | 60[11] | retired in 1995 | ||
Hawker Hunter | conversion United Kingdomtrainer | T.68 | 7[11] | retired in 1994 | ||
de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | jet trainer | T.55 | 35[11] | retired in 1990 | |
Pilatus P-2 | Switzerland | trainer | 55[41] | in service from 1945 to 1981 | ||
Beechcraft MQM-61 Cardinal | United States | Targed UAV | 10 | Retired 1965 | ||
Bücker Bü 131 | Germany | trainer | 94[42] | in service from 1936 to 1971 | ||
North American Harvard | Canada | trainer | IIB | 40[43] | in service from 1948 to 1968 | |
Bücker Bü 133 | Germany | trainer | 52[44] | in service from 1937 to 1968 | ||
Focke-Wulf | Germany | trainer | 1[45] | in service from 1945 to 1953 | ||
Nardi FN.315 | Italy | trainer | 2[46] | in service from 1944 to 1948 | ||
Dewoitine D.26 | France | trainer | 11[15] | in service from 1931 to 1948 | ||
Morane-Saulnier MS.229 | France | trainer | 2[47] | in service from 1931 to 1941 | ||
Nieuport 28 | France | trainer | 5[48] | in service from 1917 to 1921 |
References[]
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- ^ "Northrop F-5E Tiger II". 2 May 2014. Archived from the original on 28 July 2016.
- ^ a b "World Air Forces 2015 pg. 29". Flightglobal Insight. 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Federal Office of Topography". swisstopo.admin.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Dassault Falcon 900EX". .lw.admin.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Cessna 560 XL Citation Excel". .lw.admin.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ Ehemalige Rega-Challenger nun bei der Luftwaffe
- ^ "AS532 Cougar". .lw.admin.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Reconnaissance drone system 95 RANGER". .lw.admin.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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- ^ "BFW-18]", Ausgemusterte Flugzeuge (in German)
- ^ "Dauphin 2 SA365N", Ausgemusterte Flugzeuge (in German)
- ^ "Swiss air force gets final EC635". flightglobal.com. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "SO. 1221S Djinn". hermannkeist.ch. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
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- ^ "BAE Hawk 66". old.hermannkeist.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Pilatus P-2". old.hermannkeist.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Bücke". old.hermannkeist.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "American Harvard". old.hermannkeist.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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- ^ "Nieuport C.1". old.hermannkeist.ch. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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