The Finnish Air Force (FAFor FiAF) (Finnish: Ilmavoimat, Swedish: Flygvapnet) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions. As a separate branch of the military, the Finnish Air Force was founded on May 4th 1928, having existed officially since March 6th 1918 as the Army Corps of Aviation.
Aircraft Inventory[]
Fighters[]
Hawker Siddeley Tornado Mk.51A x 56 (Multirole Fighter)
AWACS Aircraft[]
- Supermarine Sentry x 4 (AWACS Aircraft)
Electronic Warfare Aircraft[]
CASA C-295 SIGINT x 2 (Electronic Warfare Aircraft)
Transport Aircraft[]
CASA C-295M x 2 (Transport Aircraft)- Canadair Challenger 850 x 4 (VIP Transport)
- Canadair CC-177 Stingray x 3 (Strategic Transport)
- Hawker 800 x 3 (Transport Aircraft)
- Pilatus PC-12NG x 6 (Liaison Aircrarft)
- Saab 340 x 10 (Transport Aircraft)
Trainer Aircraft[]
- Grob G 115E x 28 (Primary Trainer)
- Hawker Siddeley Hawk Mk.66 x 34 (Jet Trainer)
- Hawker Siddeley Tornado Mk.51B x 8 (Conversion Trainer)
Future Procurement[]
- Saab JAS 39E Gripen x 84 (Multirole Fighter)
- Saab JAS 39F Gripen x 16 (Conversion Trainer)
- / Canadair-Saab GlobalEye x 4 (AWACS Aircraft)
- / Dassault/Dornier Requin x 36 (Jet Trainer)
- IAI Galaxy x 4 (VIP Transport)
