List of historical aircraft of the Indian Air Force

Fighters

 * Hawker Tempest
 * Hawker Hurricane
 * Supermarine Spitfire
 * de Havilland Vampire - around 400 imported since 1949 or made under licence, mainly Mk 52 fighter-bomber variant.
 * 🇫🇷 Dassault Ouragan (Toofani) - Introduced in 1953.Initially India ordered 71 Ouragans in 1953 and ordered 33 more second hand Ouragans in 1957 bringing the total to 104. Withdrawn from front line service in 1965, although it continued in use for some years as a target tug.
 * 🇫🇷 Dassault Mystère IV - A total of 104 of these were bought by India with deliveries starting in 1957 and the aircraft was phased out in 1973.
 * Hawker Hunter - 165 F-56 and 22 T-66 trainers introduced since 1957.
 * Folland Gnat - built by Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) under licence from Folland in the UK
 * 🇮🇳 HAL Ajeet - Variant of the Folland Gnat developed and produced by HAL.Total 89 were built including 10 upgraded Gnats .Introduced in 1977 and retired in 1991.
 * Mig-23MF - 40 purchased for 2 squadrons, in service from 1982 to 2007.

Ground attack / Bombers

 * 🇺🇸 Vultee Vengeance
 * 🇺🇸 Consolidated B-24J Liberator-HAL helped refurbish nearly 44 of these ex-Thai World War Two era bombers that served on until 1967.
 * 🇮🇳 HAL HF-24 Marut-Total of 147 built for IAF,introduced on 17 June 1961 and retired in 1985.
 * Sukhoi Su-7 Fitter-140 introduced.Introduced in March 1968.
 * English Electric Canberra-Total of 150 Canberras introduced starting in the April 1957.Retired 11 May 2007.
 * MiG-23BN-Introduced in 1981,retired on 6 March 2009.Total of 95 introduced.

Reconnaissance

 * Hawker Audax - used in the army co-operation role in the North West Frontier Province from 1932 to the early stages of WWII.
 * English Electric Canberra-Total of 150 introduced starting in the April 1957.Retired 11 May 2007.
 * MiG-25-Took delivery of six MiG-25RBK and two MiG-25RU in 1981. They were operated by no.102 Squdron 'Trisonics' based at Bakshi-ka-talabab in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. One MiG-RBK crashed on August 3, 1994. Retired from service in July 2006. The Trishul air-base in Bareilly had Foxbats capable of flying up to 80,000 feet

Trainers

 * 🇮🇳 HAL HT-2
 * 🇵🇱 PZL TS-11 Iskra: 50 Iskra bis D Polish jet trainer aircraft were bought by India in 1975, then a further 26 in the 1990s. All Iskra aircraft were phased out from the IAF by December 16, 2004.
 * 🇨🇦 North American Harvard 4
 * de Havilland Tiger Moth
 * Percival Prentice

Transport aircraft

 * 🇺🇸 Douglas C-47 Dakota
 * de Havilland Devon
 * Ilyushin Il-14
 * 🇨🇦 de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter
 * 🇨🇦 de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
 * de Havilland Dragonfly
 * 🇺🇸 Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar
 * 🇺🇸 Lockheed Super Constellation
 * 🇨🇦 de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou
 * Tupolev Tu-124
 * Antonov An-12

Helicopters

 * 🇺🇸 Sikorsky S-55 Whirlwind
 * 🇺🇸 Bell 47 G-2
 * Mil Mi-4

General purpose

 * Westland Wapiti
 * Westland Lysander