List of military aircraft of Norway
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Main article: Royal Norwegian Air Force
List of military aircraft of Norway consists of the aircraft of Royal Norwegian Air Force, established in 1944 with the amalgamation of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the Norwegian Army Air Service, both of which were established in 1912.
Below is a list of aircraft used by the Norwegian Air Forces throughout their history. The majority of aircraft before 1940 were built in Norway while the majority of aircraft used after 1940 were built either in the United Kingdom or the United States.
Aircraft used by the Air Force and its predecessors
Gloster Gladiator 423 in 1938-1940
One of the four Norwegian Caproni Ca.310s c. 1939.
Norwegian Army Air Service Fokker CV-D photographed in 1990.
Tiger Moth in Norwegian markings 24 June 2001.
Royal Norwegian Air Force F-5A Freedom Fighter aircraft flying in close formation with a New Jersey Air National Guard F-4 Phantom II aircraft during an exercise in 1982.
| Type | # in use | Period | Notes |
| Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rumpler Taube | 1 | 1912-1922 | Start, the first aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service. |
| Maurice Farman S.3 Longhorn | 1 | 1914 | Roald Amundsen was originally a gift from Roald Amundsen to the Norwegian Army Air Service, but was lent to the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.1 | 6 | 1915- | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.2 | 3 | 1916-1924 | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.3 | 4 | 1917-1924 | |
| Sopwith Baby | 18 | 1917-1931 | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.4 | 7 | 1918- | Some MF.1s were rebuilt to MF.4 to bring the number to seven |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.5 | 8 | 1918-1926 | |
| Nielsen & Winther | 1 | 1918 | |
| Supermarine Channel I | 5 | 1920-1923 | |
| Lübeck-Travemünde F.4 | 2 | 1920-1924 | Last flight 1924, scrapped 1927 and 1930 |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.6 | 2 | 1921-1927 | |
| Savoia S.13 | 1 | 1921-1928 | Gift |
| Hansa Brandenburg W.33 | 30 | 1922-1935 | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.7 | 2 | 1923-1931 | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.8 | 2 8B: 2 | 1924-1934 1930-1939* | |
| Douglas DT-2B/C | 8 | 1925-1940 | Single example delivered by Douglas, the rest built under licence by Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk. |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.9 | 15 | 1926-1932 | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.10 | 4 | 1929-1940 | |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.11 | 29 | 1932-1940 | Three aircraft interned in Finland were used by the Finns until 1944 |
| Breda Ba 28 | 4 | 1936-1940 | Five were ordered to save an Italian-Norwegian cod fish trading deal, one crashed in Italy almost killing Finn Lützow-Holm |
| Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.12 | 1 | 1939 | |
| Heinkel He 115A-2 | 6+2 | 1939-1943 | Six delivered in 1939, plus two captured from the Luftwaffe after the invasion. An order for a further six were placed, but the aircraft were not delivered by 9 April 1940. The last of the delivered aircraft were scrapped in Woodhaven in 1943. Four aircraft served with RAF, one served in Finland |
| Junkers Ju 52 | 1 | 1940 | Hauken was rented from DNL from January 1940 until the invasion 9 April |
| Arado Ar 196A | 1 | 1940 | Interned near Kristiansund 8 April 1940, taken into Norwegian service the following day. Destroyed in landing accident in Glasgow later in April 1940 |
| Norwegian Army Air Service | |||
| Maurice Farman S.3 Longhorn | 3 | 1912-1925 | Ganger Rolf and Njaal were bought with funds from Norsk Luftseiladsforening. Olav Trygvassøn was a gift with a clause; it was to be stationed in Trøndelag. |
| Bleriot XI | 1 | 1914-1915 | Tryggve Gran's Nordsjøen |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.1 | Einar Sem-Jacobsen visited Maurice Farman in France, but could not get the drawings for the aircraft he saw there, so he drew FF.1 from memory | ||
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.2 | Based on FF.1 | ||
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.3 Hydro | 4 | 1917- | Based on a Farman Sem-Jacobsen had obtained drawings of. |
| Farman F.40 | XL II: 2 LX: 10 | 1916-1917 1917-1922 | |
| Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e | 15 | 1917-1925 | |
| Avro 504 | 5 | 1918-1930 | The last, delivered in 1922, was a gift from Roald Amundsen. |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.4 | 2 | Five planned, but prototype was a failure. An improved version did not fare much better, and both were soon withdrawn from service and sold at an auction | |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.5 (T.1) | T.1: 1 T.1B: 6 T.1C: 11 | 1918 1919- 1921-1924 | T.1, based on BE.2e, was a failure. T.1B, based on Avro 504 got into use, but was no success. |
| Farman F.46 | 2 | 1920-1922 | |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.6 (T.2) | 1 | 1921 | Five planned, but the prototype turned out to be a failure; the test pilot refused to go up again after the first test flight. Scrapped 1922 |
| Bristol F.2 Fighter | 5 | 1921-1930 | |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.7 Hauk | 14 | 1923-1929 | Hannoversche Waggonfabrik's CL.V built under licence |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.8 Måke | Måke I: 2 Måke II: 7 Måke III: 4 | -1928 1921- 1928- | Hansa Brandenburg W.29 built under licence, Måke I and II by Norsk Aerofabrik, Måke III by HF |
| Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.9 Kaje | |||
| Fokker C.V.D | 27 | 1931-1940 | All built under licence by Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk |
| Fokker C.V.E | 20 | 1930-1940 | Five delivered by Fokker, the rest built under licence by HF |
| de Havilland DH.60 Moth | 13 | 1930-1940 | Three second-hand aircraft bought from de Havilland, 10 built under licence by HF |
| de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth | 38 | 1933-1940 | All built under licence by HF |
| Cierva C.30A | 1 | 1935-1936 | Gift, sold after a year, hardly used |
| Svenska Aero J6B Jaktfalk | 1 | 1932-1936 | One Jaktfalk and One Fury bought for a fly-off for the next Norw. fighter |
| Hawker Fury I | 1 | 1933-1936 | |
| Armstrong Whitworth AW35 Scimitar | 4 | 1936-1940 | 40 projected built under licence by HFF, project abandoned when Scimitar was not selected by RAF |
| Gloster Gladiator | Mk.I: 6 Mk.II: 6 | 1937-1940 1940 | |
| Caproni Ca.310 | 4 | 1938-1940 | Bought in a dried and salted cod deal. In addition, two Ca.312 were ordered in the spring of 1940. |
| Curtiss 75A-6 | 19 | 1940 | 19 from an order of 24 delivered prior to the German invasion, most still in crates. Shipment with last five diverted to UK |
| War years: Little Norway, squadrons in RAF and the Stockholm Element | |||
| Hawker Hurricane | 331 Sqdn | ||
| Supermarine Spitfire | 331 & 332 Sqdn | ||
| Auster AOP.1 | 9 | 1944-1945 | 132 (N.) Wing (331 & 332 Sqdn.) hack |
| Bristol Beaufighter I | 3 | 1943 | On loan to 333 Sqdn from 235 Sqdn |
| Airspeed Oxford I | 2 | ||
| Northrop N-3PB | 24 | 330 Sqdn | |
| Fairchild M-62 | Little Norway | ||
| Curtiss 75A-8 | 36 | Little Norway | |
| Douglas 8A-5 | 36 | Little Norway | |
| Interstate Cadet | 2 | Little Norway | |
| Waco SRE | Little Norway | ||
| Stinson Reliant | 7 | Little Norway | |
| Noorduyn Norseman IV | 1 | Little Norway, rented a short period | |
| Consolidated Catalina IIIA | |||
| Short Sunderland | Mk. III: Mk.V: | | |
| de Havilland Mosquito | |||
| Lockheed Lodestar | Stockholm Element | ||
| Royal Norwegian Air Force 1945- | |||
| Agusta-Bell 47J/J-2 Bell 47D-1 G-3 | 5 6 3 | 1958-1967 1953-1971 1954-1970 | |
| Airspeed Oxford I/II | 22 | 1947-1953 | |
| Avro Anson I | 10 | 1947-1951 | |
| Bell UH-1B | 37 | 1963-1990 | |
| Bell 412SP | 18 | 1987- | |
| Cessna L-19A (O-1A) | 27 | 1960-1992 | |
| Consolidated Catalina | IV A: (3) IV B: 12 PBY-5A: 6 | 1945-1946 1945-1954 1954-1961 | |
| Dassault Falcon 20 | 3 | 1972- | |
| de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter | 10 | 1953-1968 | |
| de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter | 5 | 1967-2001 | |
| de Havilland Mosquito | T.III: 3 FB VI: 19 | 1947-1952 1945-1952 | |
| de Havilland Vampire | T.55: 6 F.III: 20 FB 52: 36 | 1952-1955 1948-1957 1949-1957 | |
| Douglas C-47A | 7 10 | 1945-1946 1950-1974 | |
| Douglas C-53D | 3 | 1945-1946 | |
| Fairchild M-62 | 74 | 1945-1957 | |
| Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar | 8 | 1956-1969 | |
| Fiesler Fi 156 Storch | 30 | 1945-1954 | |
| General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon | A: 60 B: 14 | 1980- 1980- | Original order of 72 aircraft built under licence by Fokker, two attrition aircraft from GD. |
| Grumman HU-16B (ASW) Albatross | 18 | 1961-1969 | |
| Junkers Ju 52/3m | 18 | 1945-1951 | |
| Lockheed C-56B/C-60A Lodestar | 7 | 1945-1950 | |
| Lockheed C-130E/H Hercules | 6 | 1969-2008 | |
| Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules | 4 | 2008- | |
| Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (Canadair CF-104) | F-104G: 19 TF-104G: 4 CF-104: 19 CF-104D: 3 | 1963-1981 1963-1983 1973-1983 1973-1983 | |
| Lockheed P-3 Orion | B: 5 C: 4 N: 2 | 1969-1989 1989- 1980- | |
| Lockheed T-33A | 22 | 1953-1968 | |
| MFI 15 Safari | 18 | 1981- | |
| Noorduyn Norseman IV/VI | 24 | 1945-1959 | |
| North American Harvard II/IIB/SNJ3/4 | 39 | 1945-1956 | |
| North American F-86 Sabre | F-86F: 115 F-86K: 64 | 1957-1967 1955-1967 | |
| Northrop N-3PB | 2 | 1945-1956 | |
| Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter | A: 78 B: 14 RF-5A: 16 | 1966-2000 1966-2000 1969-2000 | |
| Piper L-18C | 16 | 1955-1992 | |
| Republic F-84 Thunderjet | F-84E: 6 F:84G: 200 RF-84F: 35 | 1951-1956 1952-1960 1956-1970 | |
| SAAB 91B/B-2 Safir | 30 | 1956-1988 | |
| Short Sunderland Mk V | (11) | 1945 | |
| Sikorsky H-19D-4 | 4 | 1958-1967 | |
| Supermarine Spitfire | LF.IXe: 73 PR XI: 3 | 1945-1952 1946-1954 | |
| Westland Lynx Mk.86 | 6 | 1981- | |
| Westland Sea King Mk.43/43B | 12 | 1971- | |
| Focke Wulf Fw 189A-2 | 1 | 1945-1946 | |
| Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun | 2 | 1945 | |
| Junkers W.34 | 1 | 1945-1946 | |
Sources
- Norske militærfly 1912-1940. (Arnesen, Odd. 2003)
- Hærens og marinens flyvåpen 1912-1945. (Meyer, Fredrik. 1973)
- Fra Spitfire til F-16 - Luftforsvaret 50 år 1944-1994 (Arheim, Hafsten, Olsen, Thuve. 1994)
- Oppdrag utført - Norges luftmilitære kulturarv (Glenne, Roar. 2012)
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