List of maritime patrol aircraft

Consolidated PBY Catalina maritime patrol aircraft on patrol

The following is a list of maritime patrol aircraft, which are sometimes referred to as Maritime reconnaissance, coastal reconnaissance or patrol bombers depending on the service and the time period, and are characterized by their use in controlling sea lanes.

Maritime patrol aircraft

Aircraft	Origin	First Flight	No. Built
AD Flying Boat	UK	1916	7001270000000000000♠27
Aichi H9A	Japan	1940	7001310000000000000♠31
Airbus A319 MPA^[1]	France	1995	5000000000000000000♠0^{[notes 1]}
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley	UK	1936	7003181400000000000♠1,814
ATR 42 MP Surveyor	Italy	1984
ATR 72 MP	Italy	1988
ATR 72 ASW	France	1988
Avro Anson^{[notes 2]}	UK	1935	7003668800000000000♠6,688
Avro Lancaster GR.III/MR.III/10MR/MP^{[notes 3]}	UK & Canada	1941
Avro Shackleton	UK	1949	7002185000000000000♠185
B class blimp	US	1917	7001200000000000000♠20
Beechcraft King Air	US	1963
Beriev Be-10	USSR	1956	7001280000000000000♠28
Beriev Be-12	USSR	1960	7002143000000000000♠143
Beriev Be-42	Russia	1986	7000200000000000000♠2
Beriev MBR-2	USSR	1931
Blackburn Iris	UK	1926	7000500000000000000♠5
Blackburn Perth	UK	1933	7000400000000000000♠4
Blohm & Voss BV 138	Germany	1937	7002297000000000000♠297
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger	US	1942	7000100000000000000♠1
Boeing 737 Surveiller	US	1967
Boeing P-8 Poseidon	US	2009	7001150000000000000♠15
Bombardier DHC-8 MPA/MSA variants	Canada	2007	7001260000000000000♠26
Breguet 521^{[notes 4]}	France	1933	7001370000000000000♠37
Breguet Alizé	France	1956	7001890000000000000♠89
Breguet Atlantic	France	1965	7002115000000000000♠115
Britten-Norman Defender/Islander	UK	1970
C class blimp	US	1918	7001100000000000000♠10
C-Star class blimp	UK	1918	7001100000000000000♠10
CAMS 55	France	1928	7002112000000000000♠112
Canadair CP-107 Argus	Canada	1957	7001330000000000000♠33
Canadian Vickers Vancouver	Canada	1929	7000600000000000000♠6
CANT Z.501	Italy	1934	7002200000000000000♠200
CANT Z.506	Italy	1935	7002320000000000000♠320+
Caproni Ca.314-SC	Italy	1940	7001140000000000000♠14
CASA C-212 MPA^[1]	Spain	1971	7001120000000000000♠12
CASA CN-235 MPA/HC-144 Ocean Sentry^[1]	Spain	1983	7001240000000000000♠24+
Chyetverikov MDR-6	USSR	1937	7001270000000000000♠27
Coastal class blimp	UK	1916	7001350000000000000♠35
Consolidated P2Y	US	1929	7001780000000000000♠78
Consolidated PBY Catalina^{[notes 5]}	US	1935	7003330500000000000♠3,305
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado	US	1937	7002217000000000000♠217
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator	US	1939	7002976000000000000♠976
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer	US	1943	7002739000000000000♠739
Curtiss Model H	US	1914	7002478000000000000♠478
Curtiss HS-1L & HS-2L	US	1917	7003117800000000000♠1,178~
D class blimp	US	1920	7000600000000000000♠6
Dassault Falcon 20G	France	1963	7001460000000000000♠46
Dassault Falcon 50M	France	1976
Dassault Falcon 900 MSA	France	1984
Diamond DA42 Guardian	Austria	2002
Donnet-Denhaut flying boat	France	1915	7003108500000000000♠1,085~
Dornier Wal	Germany	1922	7002250000000000000♠250+
Dornier Do 24	Germany	1937	7002279000000000000♠279
Dornier Do 228	Germany	1981
Douglas B-18 Bolo/Digby	US	1935	7002370000000000000♠370
Douglas/BSAS Turbo Dakota	US	1991	7000500000000000000♠5
Douglas PD-1	US	1923	7001250000000000000♠25
CASA C-295 MPA	Spain	1997
Embraer EMB 111 Bandeirante	Brazil	1968	7001160000000000000♠16+
Embraer P-99	Brazil	1999
Fairey Gannet	UK	1949	7002303000000000000♠303
FBA Types A, B, C & S	France	1913	7003100000000000000♠1,000~
FBA Type H	France	1915	7003200000000000000♠2,000~
FBA Type S	France	1917
Felixstowe F.2	UK	1916	7002175000000000000♠175
Felixstowe F.3	UK	1917	7002182000000000000♠182
Felixstowe F5L/Curtiss F5L^{[notes 6]}	UK & US	1918	7002227000000000000♠227
Fiat RS.14	Italy	1939	7002188000000000000♠188
Focke-Wulf Fw 200	Germany	1937	7002276000000000000♠276
Fokker F27 200-MAR^{[notes 7]}	Netherlands	1955
Fokker F27 Maritime Enforcer	Netherlands	1955
Fokker T.IV	Netherlands	1927	7001330000000000000♠33
Fokker T.VIII	Netherlands	1938	7001360000000000000♠36
Friedrichshafen FF.60	Germany	1918	7000100000000000000♠1
Gotha WD.9	Germany	1914	7000100000000000000♠1
Gotha WD.27	Germany	1918	7000100000000000000♠1
Grumman AF Guardian	US	1945	7002389000000000000♠389
Grumman Tracker	US	1952	7003128400000000000♠1,284
Hall PH	US	1929	7001240000000000000♠24
Harbin SH-5	China	1976	7000600000000000000♠6
Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod	UK	1967	7001510000000000000♠51
Hiro H4H	Japan	1931	7001470000000000000♠47
IAI 1124N Sea Scan	Canada	1977	7000400000000000000♠4
Ilyushin Il-38	USSR	1967	7001580000000000000♠58
Junkers Ju 290	Germany	1942	7001650000000000000♠65
K-class blimp	US	1938	7002134000000000000♠134
Kawanishi H3K	Japan	1930	7000500000000000000♠5
Kawanishi H6K Mavis	Japan	1936	7002215000000000000♠215
Kawanishi H8K Emily	Japan	1941	7002131000000000000♠131
Kawasaki P-1	Japan	2007	7001100000000000000♠10
Kawasaki P-2J^{[notes 8]}	Japan	1966	7001830000000000000♠83
Keystone PK-1	US	1930	7001180000000000000♠18
Kyushu Q1W	Japan	1943	7002153000000000000♠153
Lockheed Hudson	US	1938	7003294100000000000♠2,941
Lockheed PV-1 Ventura	US	1940	7003251100000000000♠2,511
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon	US	1943	7002535000000000000♠535
Lockheed P-2 Neptune	US	1945	7003103600000000000♠1,036
Lockheed P-3 Orion^{[notes 9]}	US	1959	7002757000000000000♠757
Lockheed S-3 Viking	US	1972	7002188000000000000♠188
Lohner L	Austria-Hungary	1915	7002100000000000000♠100+
Loire 70	France	1933	7000800000000000000♠8
M class blimp	US	1944	7000400000000000000♠4
Macchi MC.99	Italy	1937	7000100000000000000♠1
Mann Egerton Type B	UK	1916	7001100000000000000♠10
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.11	Norway	1931	7001290000000000000♠29
Martin PM-1	US	1930	7001300000000000000♠30
Martin PM-2	US	1931	7001270000000000000♠27
Martin P2M	US	1929	7000100000000000000♠1
Martin P3M	US	1931	7001190000000000000♠19
Martin P4M Mercator^{[notes 10]}	US	1946	7001460000000000000♠46
Martin P5M Marlin	US	1948	7002285000000000000♠285
Martin PBM Mariner	US	1939	7003128500000000000♠1,285
Myasishchev 3M/3MD	USSR	1956	7001930000000000000♠93^{[notes 11]}
Naval Aircraft Factory PN	US	1922	7001150000000000000♠15
Nord 1402 Noroit	France	1949	7001250000000000000♠25
Norman Thompson N.T.4	UK	1916	7001260000000000000♠26
North Sea class blimp	UK	1917	7001140000000000000♠14
PZL M28B Bryza	Poland	1984	7001110000000000000♠11
Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H	Yugoslavia	1938	7001190000000000000♠19
Rohrbach Ro IV	Denmark & UK	1925	7000200000000000000♠2
Royal Aircraft Factory C.E.1	UK	1918	7000200000000000000♠2
Saro Lerwick	UK	1938	7001210000000000000♠21
Saro London	UK	1934	7001310000000000000♠31
Savoia-Marchetti S.55	Italy	1924	7002243000000000000♠243+
Savoia-Marchetti S.59	Italy	1925	7002240000000000000♠240+
Savoia-Marchetti SM.62	Italy	1926	7001640000000000000♠64
Shaanxi Y-8F, Q & X	China	1984
Shin Meiwa PS-1	Japan	1967	7001250000000000000♠25
Short Type 184	UK	1915	7002936000000000000♠936
Short Empire^{[notes 12]}	UK	1936	7000900000000000000♠9
Short Rangoon	UK	1930	7000600000000000000♠6
Short S.26/M	UK	1939	7000300000000000000♠3
Short Seaford	UK	1944	7001100000000000000♠10
Short Shetland	UK	1944	7000200000000000000♠2
Short Singapore III	UK	1934	7001370000000000000♠37
Short Sunderland	UK	1937	7002777000000000000♠777
Submarine Scout class blimp	UK	1915	7001600000000000000♠60
Submarine Scout Pusher class blimp	UK	1917	7000600000000000000♠6
Submarine Scout Twin class blimp	UK	1918	7001130000000000000♠13
Submarine Scout Zero class blimp	UK	1916	7001770000000000000♠77
Supermarine Scapa	UK	1932	7001150000000000000♠15
Supermarine Southampton	UK	1925	7001830000000000000♠83
Supermarine Stranraer^{[notes 13]}	UK	1934	7001570000000000000♠57
Tupolev Tu-16T/PL/R/RM/SP	USSR	1952	7003150900000000000♠1,509^{[notes 14]}
Tupolev Tu-95MR	USSR	1961	7000400000000000000♠4
Tupolev Tu-142	USSR	1968	7002100000000000000♠100
Vickers Warwick GR Mk.II and V	UK	1939	7002328000000000000♠328
Vickers Wellington GR.Mk.VIII/XI/XII/XIII/XIV	UK	1936	7003223000000000000♠2,230
Yokosuka H5Y	Japan	1936	7001200000000000000♠20
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.I	Germany	1915	7000100000000000000♠1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.II	Germany	1916	7000100000000000000♠1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.III	Germany	1917	7000100000000000000♠1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.IV	Germany	1918	7000100000000000000♠1

Notes

↑ Proposal only, flight date is of airframe only
↑ Production total of Mk.Is- includes trainers and bombers
↑ Built in both countries, heavily modified in Canada
↑ Developed from Short Calcutta
↑ 620 Catalinas built in Canada and 24 in USSR
↑ built in both countries, airframe by Curtiss, hull by Porte in the UK.)
↑ unarmed variant
↑ turboprop Lockheed P-2
↑ Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is the Canadian designation for same aircraft with the Canadian Forces
↑ Most diverted to other purposes
↑ all variants
↑ Two BOAC examples converted for the RAF with full weapons fit including fuselage depth charge racks and tail and top turrets; five Qantas Empire Airways/BOAC examples converted for the Royal Australian Air Force with makeshift weapons; and two stock TEAL examples used for visual patrols by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
↑ More built in Canada than UK
↑ Production figure includes all variants.

References

1 2 3 Airbus Military - Surveillance & Security

Bibliography

Field, Hugh; Richardson, Doug (7 July 1979). "Inshore Maritime Market". Flight International (Transport Press) 115 (3668): 29–32 & 37.
Gaines, Mike (23 April 1983). "Inshore Maritime Market". Flight International (Transport Press) 123 (3859): 1115–1122.

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