List of military aircraft of Norway consists of the aircraft of Royal Norwegian Air Force, established in 1944 with the amalgamation of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the Norwegian Army Air Service, both of which were established in 1912.

Below is a list of aircraft used by the Norwegian Air Forces throughout their history. The majority of aircraft before 1940 were built in Norway while the majority of aircraft used after 1940 were built either in the United Kingdom or the United States.

Aircraft used by the Air Force and its predecessors

Type # in use Period NotesRoyal Norwegian Navy Air Service Rumpler Taube 1 1912-1922 Start, with first flights 1 and 7 June 1912, the first aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service that was established in 1916. Maurice Farman S.3 Longhorn 1 1914 Roald Amundsen was originally a gift from Roald Amundsen to the Norwegian Army Air Service, but was lent to the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.1 6 1915- Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.2 3 1916-1924 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.3 4 1917-1924 Sopwith Baby 18 1917-1931 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.4 7 1918- Some MF.1s were rebuilt to MF.4 to bring the number to seven Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.5 8 1918-1926 Nielsen & Winther 1 1918 Supermarine Channel I 5 1920-1923 Lübeck-Travemünde F.4 2 1920-1924 Last flight 1924, scrapped 1927 and 1930 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.6 2 1921-1927 Savoia S.13 1 1921-1928 Gift Hansa Brandenburg W.33 30 1922-1935 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.7 2 1923-1931 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.8 28B: 2 1924-19341930-1939* Douglas DT-2B/C 8 1925-1940 Single example delivered by Douglas, the rest built under licence by Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk. Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.9 15 1926-1932 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.10 4 1929-1940 Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.11 29 1932-1940 Three aircraft interned in Finland were used by the Finns until 1944 Breda Ba 28 4 1936-1940 Five were ordered to save an Italian-Norwegian cod fish trading deal, one crashed in Italy almost killing Finn Lützow-Holm Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk MF.12 1 1939 Heinkel He 115A-2 6+2 1939-1943 Six delivered in 1939, plus two captured from the Luftwaffe after the invasion. An order for a further six were placed, but the aircraft were not delivered by 9 April 1940. The last of the delivered aircraft were scrapped in Woodhaven in 1943. Four aircraft served with RAF, one served in Finland Junkers Ju 52 1 1940 Hauken was rented from DNL from January 1940 until the invasion 9 April Arado Ar 196A 1 1940 Interned near Kristiansund 8 April 1940, taken into Norwegian service the following day. Destroyed in landing accident in Glasgow later in April 1940Norwegian Army Air Service Maurice Farman S.3 Longhorn 3 1912-1925 Ganger Rolf and Njaal were bought with funds from Norsk Luftseiladsforening. Olav Trygvassøn was a gift with a clause; it was to be stationed in Trøndelag. Specified in 3 rows below. Maurice Farman MF.7 (1) 1912-1925 Ganger Rolf, built at Heradsbygd south of Elverum in 1912 with Norways first military flight 1 September 1912, one of the first two aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Maurice Farman MF.7 (1) 1912-1925 Njaal, built at Kjeller airport with first flight at Kjeller 21 September 1912, one of the first two aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Maurice Farman MF.7 (1) 1914-1925 S.3, trainer donated by Roald Amundsen in 1914 and transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service. Bleriot XI 1 1914-1915 Tryggve Gran's Nordsjøen Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.1 Einar Sem-Jacobsen visited Maurice Farman in France, but could not get the drawings for the aircraft he saw there, so he drew FF.1 from memory Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.2 Based on FF.1 Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.3 Hydro 4 1917- Based on a Farman Sem-Jacobsen had obtained drawings of. Farman F.40 XL II: 2LX: 10 1916-1917 1917-1922 Royal Aircraft Factory BE.2e 15 1917-1925 Avro 504 5 1918-1930 The last, delivered in 1922, was a gift from Roald Amundsen. Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.4 2 Five planned, but prototype was a failure. An improved version did not fare much better, and both were soon withdrawn from service and sold at an auction Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.5 (T.1) T.1: 1T.1B: 6 T.1C: 11 19181919- 1921-1924 T.1, based on BE.2e, was a failure. T.1B, based on Avro 504 got into use, but was no success. Farman F.46 2 1920-1922 Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.6 (T.2) 1 1921 Five planned, but the prototype turned out to be a failure; the test pilot refused to go up again after the first test flight. Scrapped 1922 Bristol F.2 Fighter 5 1921-1930 Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.7 Hauk 14 1923-1929 Hannoversche Waggonfabrik's CL.V built under licence Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.8 Måke Måke I: 2Måke II: 7Måke III: 4 -1928 1921- 1928- Hansa Brandenburg W.29 built under licence, Måke I and II by Norsk Aerofabrik, Måke III by HF Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk FF.9 Kaje Fokker C.V.D 27 1931-1940 All built under licence by Hærens Flyvemaskinfabrikk Fokker C.V.E 20 1930-1940 Five delivered by Fokker, the rest built under licence by HF de Havilland DH.60 Moth 13 1930-1940 Three second-hand aircraft bought from de Havilland, 10 built under licence by HF de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth 38 1933-1940 All built under licence by HF Cierva C.30A 1 1935-1936 Gift, sold after a year, hardly used Svenska Aero J6B Jaktfalk 1 1932-1936 One Jaktfalk and One Fury bought for a fly-off for the next Norw. fighter Hawker Fury I 1 1933-1936 Armstrong Whitworth AW35 Scimitar 4 1936-1940 40 projected built under licence by HFF, project abandoned when Scimitar was not selected by RAFGloster Gladiator Mk.I: 6Mk.II: 6 1937-19401940 Caproni Ca.310 4 1938-1940 Bought in a dried and salted cod deal. In addition, two Ca.312 were ordered in the spring of 1940. Curtiss 75A-6 19 1940 19 from an order of 24 delivered prior to the German invasion, most still in crates. Shipment with last five diverted to UKWar years: Little Norway, squadrons in RAF and the Stockholm Element Hawker Hurricane 331 Sqdn Supermarine Spitfire 331 & 332 Sqdn Auster AOP.1 9 1944-1945 132 (N.) Wing (331 & 332 Sqdn.) hack Bristol Beaufighter I 3 1943 On loan to 333 Sqdn from 235 Sqdn Airspeed Oxford I 2 Northrop N-3PB 24 330 Sqdn Fairchild M-62 Little Norway Curtiss 75A-8 36 Little Norway Douglas 8A-5 36 Little Norway Interstate Cadet 2 Little Norway Waco SRE Little Norway Stinson Reliant 7 Little Norway Noorduyn Norseman IV 1 Little Norway, rented a short period Consolidated Catalina IIIA Short Sunderland Mk. III: Mk.V: de Havilland Mosquito Lockheed Lodestar Stockholm ElementRoyal Norwegian Air Force 1945-Agusta-Bell 47J/J-2Bell 47D-1G-3 5 6 3 1958-19671953-19711954-1970 Airspeed Oxford I/II 22 1947-1953 Avro Anson I 10 1947-1951 Bell UH-1B 37 1963-1990 Bell 412SP 18 1987- Cessna L-19A (O-1A) 27 1960-1992 Consolidated Catalina IV A: (3)IV B: 12PBY-5A: 6 1945-19461945-19541954-1961 Dassault Falcon 20 3 1972- de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter 10 1953-1968 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 5 1967-2001 de Havilland Mosquito T.III: 3FB VI: 19 1947-19521945-1952 de Havilland Vampire T.55: 6F.III: 20FB 52: 36 1952-19551948-19571949-1957 Douglas C-47A 710 1945-19461950-1974 Douglas C-53D 3 1945-1946 Fairchild M-62 74 1945-1957 Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar 8 1956-1969 Fiesler Fi 156 Storch 30 1945-1954 General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon A: 60B: 14 1980-2022 1980-2022 Original order of 74 aircraft built under licence by Fokker mainly being (block 15 and 20 but, earlier on block 1, 5 and 10), two attrition aircraft from GD. most jets were upgraded to the OCU and later on MLU upgrades. On 6 January 2022, Norway announced that all F-16s had been retired. Grumman HU-16B (ASW) Albatross 18 1961-1969 Junkers Ju 52/3m 18 1945-1951 Lockheed C-56B/C-60A Lodestar 7 1945-1950 Lockheed C-130E/H Hercules 6 1969-2008 Lockheed C-130J Super Hercules 5 2008- Lockheed F-104 StarfighterCanadair CF-104 F-104G: 24TF-104G: 4CF-104: 21CF-104D: 3 1963-19811963-19831973-19831973-1983 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIA 49 2016- 52 F-35As planned in total. Lockheed P-3 Orion B: 5 C: 4 N: 2 1969-19891989- 1980- Lockheed T-33A 22 1953-1968 MFI 15 Safari 18 1981- Noorduyn Norseman IV/VI 24 1945-1959 North American Harvard II/IIB/SNJ3/4 39 1945-1956 North American F-86 Sabre F-86F: 115F-86K: 64 1957-19671955-1967 Northrop N-3PB 2 1945-1956 Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter A: 98B: 14RF-5A: 16 1966-20001966-2000 1969-2000 Piper L-18C 16 1955-1992 Republic F-84 Thunderjet F-84E: 6F:84G: 200 RF-84F: 35 1951-19561952-1960 1956-1970 SAAB 91B/B-2 Safir 30 1956-1988 Short Sunderland Mk V (11) 1945 Sikorsky H-19D-4 4 1958-1967 Supermarine Spitfire LF.IXe: 73 PR XI: 3 1945-1952 1946-1954 Westland Lynx Mk.86 6 1981-2014 Westland Sea King Mk.43/43B 12 1971- To be replaced by AW101 Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-2 1 1945-1946 Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun 2 1945 Junkers W 34 1 1945-1946 AW101 SAR Queen 16 2020- All 16 delivered to Norway by June 2025

References

Norske militærfly 1912-1940. (Arnesen, Odd. 2003) Hærens og marinens flyvåpen 1912-1945. (Meyer, Fredrik. 1973) Fra Spitfire til F-16 - Luftforsvaret 50 år 1944-1994 (Arheim, Hafsten, Olsen, Thuve. 1994) Oppdrag utført - Norges luftmilitære kulturarv (Glenne, Roar. 2012)