List of aircraft of Canada's air forces

This is a list of aircraft of Canada's air forces. Aircraft are listed for the following periods:
 * the period 1914–1915 when the Canadian Aviation Corps was created at the beginning of the First World War;
 * the period 1918–1920 when Canada attempted to create the Canadian Air Force in Europe during the First World War;
 * the period 1920–1924 when its air force was also known as the Canadian Air Force;
 * the period from 1924–1968 when the air force was known as the Royal Canadian Air Force, and
 * the current post-1968 period under the unified Canadian Forces, when its air force was designated Canadian Forces Air Command and later renamed to the original historic name Royal Canadian Air Force.

The list does not include aircraft flown by Canadian pilots serving in the Royal Flying Corps or Royal Air Force squadrons, only those serving in purely Canadian units.

First World War designations
No official standard existed for the naming of aircraft and so all designations at this time were assigned solely by the original manufacturer and both numbers and names were used.
 * Airco DH.4 - biplane bomber
 * Airco DH.9A - development of DH4
 * Avro 504 - biplane trainer
 * Avro 552 Viper - Avro 504 with V type engine
 * Avro Wright - modified Avro 504
 * Bristol Fighter - two-seat biplane fighter
 * Burgess-Dunne - 1914 tailless biplane mounted on floats -Canada's first military aircraft
 * Curtiss HS-2L - patrol seaplane
 * Curtiss Canuck biplane trainer, Canadian variant developed in parallel to US JN-4 Jenny
 * Fairey IIIC - 1920s biplane floatplane bomber
 * Martinsyde F6 - fighter
 * Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a - single seat biplane fighter, used briefly into 1920s
 * Sopwith Camel - single seat biplane fighter
 * Sopwith Dolphin - single seat biplane fighter with backwards staggered wings
 * Sopwith Snipe - single seat biplane fighter

RAF style designations
Aircraft were given names, and individual variants designated numerically as mark I, mark II, etc. as per RAF practice. Impressed types usually retained their commercial names such as with the Barkley-Grow T8P-1 or the Waco AQC-6. For more information on specifics of the system, see British military aircraft designation systems


 * Airspeed Horsa - troop carrier glider
 * Airspeed Oxford - twin engine training aircraft (navigation, bombing, radio)
 * Armstrong Whitworth Atlas - army co-operation biplane
 * Armstrong Whitworth Siskin - single seat biplane fighter
 * Auster AOP6 - air observation aircraft
 * Avro Avian - light utility/trainer aircraft
 * Avro Tutor - biplane trainer''
 * Avro Prefect - biplane trainer
 * Avro Anson - twin engined medium bomber/trainer
 * Avro Lancaster - heavy bomber
 * Avro Lincoln - cancelled bomber prototype
 * Barkley-Grow T8P-1 - impressed light twin engined cabin monoplane similar to Beechcraft Expediter
 * Beechcraft Expeditor - light twin utility/trainer aircraft
 * Beechcraft Mentor - single engine ab initio flight trainer
 * Bellanca Pacemaker - transport monoplane
 * Blackburn Shark - biplane torpedo bomber
 * Boeing 247D - impressed twin engine cabin transport
 * Boeing Fortress - long-range patrol bomber
 * Boeing Bomarc - nuclear tipped surface to air missile
 * Brewster Bermuda - dive bomber
 * Bristol Beaufort - twin engine monoplane torpedo bomber/strike/minelaying aircraft
 * Bristol Blenheim - twin engine monoplane medium bomber/gunnery trainer
 * Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke - Canadian version of Blenheim bomber
 * Bristol Freighter - cargo transport with nose clamshell doors
 * Canadair C-5 North Star - One off North Star powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial piston engines
 * Canadair North Star - modified RR Merlin engined C-54 built in Canada
 * Canadair Sabre - improved Canadian variant of North American F-86 Sabre single seat jet fighter
 * Canadair Silver Star - improved Canadian variant of Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star two seat jet trainer
 * Canadair Cosmopolitan - improved Canadian variant of Convair CV-240 twin engine transport
 * Canadian Vickers Vancouver - twin engine biplane patrol flying boat
 * Canadian Vickers Vanessa - cabin biplane, trials only
 * Canadian Vickers Varuna - twin engine biplane patrol flying boat
 * Canadian Vickers Vedette - patrol biplane flying boat - first aircraft designed for Canadian conditions
 * Canadian Vickers Velos - patrol floatplane, trials only
 * Canadian Vickers Vigil - training/utility biplane
 * Canadian Vickers Vista - monoplane development of Vedette
 * Cessna Crane - light twin engine monoplane trainer
 * Consolidated Catalina/Canso maritime patrol monoplane seaplane
 * Consolidated Courier - 1920s biplane trainer
 * Consolidated Liberator maritime patrol bomber, helped defeat u-boats by closing Atlantic Gap
 * Consolidated Privateer - Liberator variant
 * Curtiss Kittyhawk - fighter
 * Curtiss Seamew - utility seaplane
 * Curtiss Tomahawk - fighter
 * Curtiss-Reid Rambler - biplane trainer/light utility aircraft
 * de Havilland Comet - jet transport/airliner - Canada was first military to operate jet transports
 * de Havilland Dragonfly - light twin engined biplane transport
 * de Havilland Fox Moth - light single engined biplane transport - built in Canada
 * de Havilland Hawk Moth - light single engined monoplane transport
 * de Havilland Hornet Moth - light single engined monoplane transport
 * de Havilland Mosquito - twin-engined unarmed medium/heavy bomber
 * de Havilland Moth - single engined biplane trainer
 * de Havilland Puss Moth - light single engined monoplane transport
 * de Havilland Sea Hornet - twin engined naval fighter
 * de Havilland Tiger Moth - single engined biplane trainer extensively modified from UK variant
 * de Havilland Vampire - early jet fighter with pod and boom layout
 * de Havilland Canada Chipmunk - two-seat monoplane elementary trainer
 * Douglas Boston - twin engined medium bomber
 * Douglas Dakota - twin engined transport, glider tug and utility aircraft used until 1980s
 * Douglas Digby - medium/heavy bomber developed from DC-2 airliner


 * Fairchild 51 - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush aircraft
 * Fairchild 71 - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush aircraft
 * Fairchild Argus- high wing single engine monoplane transport/utility aircraft
 * Fairchild Cornell - elementary trainer
 * Fairchild FC-2L Razorback - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush plane
 * Fairchild KR-34 - light utility biplane
 * Fairchild Super 71 - high wing single engine monoplane transport/bush aircraft
 * Fairchild Flying Boxcar - cargo transport
 * Fairey Albacore - torpedo bomber that should have replaced the Fairey Swordfish
 * Fairey Battle - medium bomber used as a trainer and target tug in Canada
 * Fairey Swordfish - torpedo bomber biplane
 * Fleet Fawn - biplane elementary trainer
 * Fleet Finch - biplane elementary trainer
 * Fleet Fort - monoplane intermediate/radio trainer
 * Fleet Freighter - twin-engine biplane transport/bush plane
 * Fokker Super Universal - single engine monoplane transport/utility/bush plane
 * Ford Trimotor - tri-motor corrugated metal transport
 * General Aircraft Hotspur - troop glider
 * Gloster Meteor - early jet fighter (trials)
 * Grumman Goblin - Canadian built version of Grumman FF-1 fighter
 * Grumman Goose - twin engine amphibious utility aircraft
 * Handley Page Hampden - twin engine medium bomber
 * Handley Page Harrow - twin engine heavy bomber/transport
 * Handley Page Halifax - four engine heavy bomber
 * Hawker Audax - army co-operation biplane
 * Hawker Hart - single engine light bomber
 * Hawker Hind - single engine light bomber, improved Hart
 * Hawker Hurricane - monoplane fighter
 * Hawker Tempest - monoplane fighter
 * Hawker Tomtit - biplane trainer
 * Hawker Typhoon - monoplane ground attack/fighter
 * Keystone Puffer - biplane crop duster
 * Lockheed Electra Junior - twin engine transport
 * Lockheed Electra - twin engine transport
 * Lockheed Hudson - twin engine bomber developed from Lockheed Super Electra
 * Lockheed Lodestar - twin engine transport
 * Lockheed Ventura - twin engine patrol bomber
 * Martin Baltimore - twin engine medium bomber
 * Noorduyn Norseman - single engine monoplane light utility/tranport/bush aircraft
 * North American Mitchell - medium bomber
 * North American NA-26 - one-off single engine monoplane trainer, prototype for Harvard series
 * North American NA-44 - one-off two seat light attack monoplane similar to Harvard but with much larger engine
 * North American Mustang - single seat fighter
 * North American Harvard - two seat single engine monoplane advanced trainer
 * North American Yale - two seat single engine monoplane intermediate/radio trainer
 * Northrop Delta - single engine monoplane transport also used for coastal patrols
 * Northrop Nomad - single engine two seat light bomber similar to Fairey Battle
 * Percival Prentice - trainer evaluated 1948 but lost out to DHC Chipmunk
 * Piasecki H-21A and 44A - utility/rescue helicopter
 * Pitcairn Mailwing - utility biplane
 * Schweizer 2-33A - training glider used by Royal Canadian Air Cadets
 * Sikorsky H-5 - small utility/rescue helicopter
 * Stearman Kaydet - Second World War single seat biplane elementary trainer
 * Stinson Voyager - light utility monoplane
 * Supermarine Spitfire - fighter
 * Supermarine Stranraer - patrol flying boat built in Canada under license
 * Supermarine Walrus - fleet spotter/utility seaplane
 * Taylorcraft Auster Mk. IV and V - observation and liaison aircraft
 * Vickers Viking - 1920s biplane patrol seaplane
 * Vickers Wellington - twin engined medium bomber/coastal patrol aircraft
 * Waco AQC-6 - single engines utility biplane impressed at start of war
 * Waco CG-15 - transport glider, improved Hadrian, 1 example acquired only
 * Waco Hadrian - transport glider
 * Westland Lysander - army co-operation monoplane also used as target tug - built in Canada
 * Westland Wapiti - army co-operation biplane

Numerical designations used since 1968

 * CF-100 Canuck - all-weather jet interceptor
 * CF-101 Voodoo - interceptor
 * 102 skipped to avoid confusion with cancelled Avro Canada C102 Jetliner
 * CF-103 - swept wing development of CF-100 cancelled in favour of CF-105 Arrow
 * CF-104 Starfighter - fighter
 * CF-105 Arrow - interceptor cancelled after 5 built
 * CC-106 Yukon - transport
 * CP-107 Argus - maritime patrol
 * CC-108 Caribou - STOL transport
 * CC-109 Cosmopolitan - turboprop transport
 * CSR-110 Albatross - search and rescue seaplane
 * CT-111 Firefly - trainer
 * CH-112 Nomad - utility helicopter
 * CH-113 Labrador - utility/search and rescue helicopter
 * CT-114 Tutor - jet trainer
 * CC-115 Buffalo - STOL transport
 * CF-116 Freedom Fighter - CF-5 fighter
 * CC-117 Falcon - jet VIP transport
 * CH-118 Iroquois - utility helicopter
 * CO-119 Bird Dog - liaison/utility and observation aircraft
 * CO-119 L-82 - liaison/utility and observation aircraft
 * CT-120 Chipmunk - elementary trainer
 * CP-121 Tracker - maritime patrol aircraft
 * CP-122 Neptune - maritime patrol aircraft
 * CSR-123 Otter - utility STOL transport
 * CH-124 Sea King - anti-submarine/search and rescue helicopter
 * CH-125 - utility helicopter
 * CH-126 - S-58 helicopter
 * CH-127 - utility helicopter
 * CT-128 Expeditor - utility transport and navigational trainer
 * CC-129 Dakota - transport
 * CC-130 Hercules - tactical transport
 * CX-131 Dynavert - experimental VTOL tilt-wing aircraft
 * CC-132 Dash 7 - transport
 * CT-133 Silver Star - jet trainer
 * CT-134 Musketeer - elementary trainer
 * CH-135 Twin Huey - utility helicopter
 * CH-136 Kiowa - utility helicopter
 * CC-137 Husky - Boeing 707 jet transport equipped to refuel other aircraft in flight
 * CC-138 Twin Otter - light utility transport
 * CH-139 Jet Ranger - utility helicopter
 * CP-140 Aurora - maritime patrol/reconnaissance aircraft
 * CP-140A Arcturus - training/reconnaissance aircraft, 
 * CC-141 - cancelled order for Lockheed C-141 Starlifter military heavy lift freighters
 * CT-142 Dash 8 - navigational trainer
 * CH-143 BK-117 - utility helicopter
 * CC-144 Challenger - VIP transport, EW trainer and ELINT aircraft
 * CT-145 Super King Air - light utility transport
 * CH-146 Griffon - utility helicopter
 * CH-147 Chinook - cargo helicopter
 * CH-148 Cyclone - Sikorsky anti-submarine warfare helicopter to replace CH-124 Sea King
 * CH-149 Cormorant - EH.101 search and rescue and anti-submarine warfare helicopter to replace CH-124 Sea King
 * CC-150 Polaris - Airbus A310-304/304F jet transport to replace CC-137
 * CT-155 Hawk - jet trainer
 * CT-156 Harvard II - turboprop trainer developed from Pilatus PC-9
 * CU-160 - IAI/EADS Eagle-1 UAV
 * CU-161 - SAGEM Sperwer UAV
 * CU-162 - Meggitt Vindicator UAV
 * CU-163 - General Atomics Altair UAV
 * CU-167 - BAE/Advanced Ceramics Research Silver Fox UAV
 * CU-168 - ELBIT Skylark UAV
 * CU-170 - IAI Heron UAV
 * CC-177 Globemaster III - C-17 heavy military airlifter
 * CH-178 - Mi-17 helicopter leased for use in Afghanistan
 * CF-188 - CF-18 Multirole fighter aircraft (Hornet name not official in Canada, though it is common unofficially)

Captured enemy aircraft

 * Fokker D.VII