List of active aircraft of the Afghan Air Force

An Afghan Air Corps Mi-17 helicopter takes off on a mission
Afghan MD 530F firing off its gun pods

This is the List of active aircraft of the Afghan Air Force.

Current inventory

Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes
Combat Aircraft
Embraer A-29 Brazil COIN 10[1] 10 on order
Transport
Boeing 727 United States VIP transport 3 being acquired from Ariana Afghan Airlines[2]
C-130 Hercules United States transport C-130H 4[1]
Pilatus PC-12 Switzerland transport / utility PC-12NG 17[1] in use with Afghan Special Forces
Cessna 208 United States transport / utility 25[1]
Helicopters
Mil Mi-17 Russia utility Mi-8/17 97[1] 55 are in use with Afghan Special Forces
Mil Mi-24 Russia attack Mi-35 7[1]
Bell UH-1 United States utility UH-1H 10[1]
MD 500 United States light attack / training MD 530F 27 [3]
HAL Cheetah India utility / training 3 [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "World Air Forces 2016 pg. 11". Flightglobal Insight. 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Afghan AF acquires 3 Boeing 727s". Air Forces Monthly. Key Publishing: p. 30. December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Afghan air force to get 12 more MD530Fs". flightglobal.com. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
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