Since its formation, the Swiss Air Force has used a number of different aircraft.
Aircraft | Origin | Type | Variant | In service | Notes |
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Combat aircraft | |||||
Mirage III | France | fighter | IIIS | 30 [22] | retired in 1999 |
P-51 Mustang | United States | fighter | 131 [23] | in service from 1949 to 1957 | |
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 | France | fighter | 322 [24] | in service from 1939 to 1956 | |
Messerschmitt Bf 109 | Germany | fighter | 129 [25] | in service from 1939 to 1949 | |
Dewoitine D.27 | France | fighter | 66 [26] | in service from 1928 to 1944 | |
Hanriot HD.1 | France | fighter | 16 [27] | in service from 1921 to 1930 | |
Nieuport 28 | France | fighter | 15 [28] | in service from 1918 to 1930 | |
Potez 25 | France | bomber | 2 [29] | in service from 1938 to 1944 | |
de Havilland Mosquito | United Kingdom | bomber | 2 [30] | in service from 1944 to 1954 | |
de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | 182 [31] | in service from 1946 to 1990 | |
de Havilland Venom | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | F.50/54 | 226 [32] | in service from 1954 to 1984 |
Hawker Hunter | United Kingdom | fighter-bomber | TF.58 | 125 [22] | retired from service 1994 |
Reconnaissance | |||||
ADS-95 | Switzerland | Reconnaissance UAV | 28 (2 crashed) | Retired November 2019 [33] | |
Mirage III | France | reconnaissance | IIIRS | 18 [22] | retired in 1999 |
de Havilland Venom | United Kingdom | reconnaissance | F.50/54 | 32 [32] | in service from 1956 to 1987 |
EKW C-36 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 160 [34] | in service from 1942 to 1987 | |
Fokker C.V | Netherlands | reconnaissance | 64 [35] | in service from 1927 to 1954 | |
EKW C-35 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 160 [36] | in service from 1937 to 1954 | |
Häfeli DH-5 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 80 [37] | in service from 1922 to 1940 | |
Häfeli DH-3 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 109 [37] | in service from 1917 to 1939 | |
Häfeli DH-1 | Switzerland | reconnaissance | 6 [37] | in service from 1916 to 1919 | |
Piper Super Cub | United States | observation | 6 [38] | in service from 1948 to 1975 | |
Fieseler Fi 156 | Germany | observation | 5 [39] | in service from 1940 to 1963 | |
Potez 25 | France | observation | 17 [29] | in service from 1927 to 1940 | |
Dornier Do 27 | Germany | communications | 3 [22] | retired in 2005 | |
Messerschmitt Bf 108 | Germany | communications | 18 [40] | in service from 1938 to 1959 | |
Beechcraft Twin Bonanza | United States | communications | 3 [22] | in service from 1957 to 1989 | |
Transport | |||||
Pilatus PC-24 | Switzerland | VIP | PC-24 | 1 [41] | in service from 2019 to 2022 |
Dassault Falcon 50 | France | VIP | 1 [42] | replaced by a Falcon 900EX in 2013 | |
Beechcraft 1900 | United States | VIP | 1 | replaced by two CL604 in 2020 | |
Learjet 35 | United States | VIP | 2 [22] | in service from 1987 to 2006 | |
Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | transport | 3 [43] | in service from 1939 to 1981 | |
Beechcraft Expeditor | United States | transport | 3 [44] | in service from 1948 to 1969 | |
Siebel Si 204 | Germany | transport | 1 [45] | in service from 1945 to 1955 | |
Messerschmitt M 18 | Germany | transport | 4 [46] | in service from 1929 to 1954 | |
Helicopters | |||||
AS365 Dauphin | France | VIP | 1 [47] | retired in 2009 | |
Aérospatiale Alouette II | France | utility / SAR | 30 [22] | retired around 2012 | |
Aérospatiale Alouette III | France | utility / liaison | 76 [22] | replaced by the Eurocopter EC635 [48] by 2010 | |
Sud-Ouest Djinn | France | light utility | 4 [49] | in service from 1958 to 1964 | |
Hiller UH-12 | United States | observation | 3 [50] | in service from 1952 -1962 | |
Trainer aircraft | |||||
Pilatus PC-9 | Switzerland | target tug/trainer | PC-9/F | 12 [51] | 4 were used in the last years, [51] retired in 2022 [52] |
BAE Hawk | United Kingdom | primary trainer | Hawk 66 | 19 [53] | 18 surviving aircraft sold to Finland in 2008 [54] |
Mirage III | France | conversion trainer | IIIBS/DS | 2/2 [22] | retired in 2003 |
Pilatus P-3 | Switzerland | trainer | 60 [22] | retired in 1995 | |
Hawker Hunter | United Kingdom | conversion trainer | T.68 | 7 [22] | retired in 1994 |
de Havilland Vampire | United Kingdom | jet trainer | T.55 | 35 [22] | retired in 1990 |
Pilatus P-2 | Switzerland | trainer | 55 [55] | in service from 1945 to 1981 | |
Beechcraft MQM-61 Cardinal | United States | Target UAV | 10 | retired in 1965 | |
Bücker Bü 131 | Germany | trainer | 94 [56] | in service from 1936 to 1971 | |
North American Harvard | Canada | trainer | IIB | 40 [57] | in service from 1948 to 1968 |
Bücker Bü 133 | Germany | trainer | 52 [56] | in service from 1937 to 1968 | |
Focke-Wulf | Germany | trainer | 1 [58] | in service from 1945 to 1953 | |
Nardi FN.315 | Italy | trainer | 2 [59] | in service from 1944 to 1948 | |
Dewoitine D.26 | France | trainer | 11 [26] | in service from 1931 to 1948 | |
Morane-Saulnier MS.229 | France | trainer | 2 [60] | in service from 1931 to 1941 | |
Nieuport 28 | France | trainer | 5 [61] | in service from 1917 to 1921 | |
UAV | |||||
RUAG Ranger ADS 90 | Switzerland | surveillance | ? | in service from 1988 to 1999 | |
RUAG Ranger ADS 95 | Switzerland | surveillance | 28 | in service from 1999 to 2019 |
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