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IAF Aircraft Database - Types, Serial Numbers, Fates
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Total Number of Airframes in this Database : 5489
The following table provides the type wise distribution of aircraft entries in the Bharat-Rakshak Database
Fighters
| Aircraft Name | Census Total |
|---|---|
| Supermarine Spitfire | 158 |
| Hawker Tempest II | 226 |
| De Havilland Vampire DH 100 | 386 |
| Dassault Ouragan | 88 |
| Dassault Mystere IVa | 110 |
| Hawker Hunter | 252 |
| Folland / HAL Gnat / Ajeet | 262 |
| Mikoyan MiG-21 | 843 |
| HAL Marut HF-24 | 84 |
| Sukhoi Su-7 | 100 |
| Mikoyan MiG-23 | 162 |
| Mikoyan MiG-25 | 10 |
| Mikoyan MiG-27 | 165 |
| Total Records : 2846 | |
Transports
| Aircraft Name | Census Total |
|---|---|
| Douglas Dakota C-47 | 206 |
| De Havilland Devon | 22 |
| Fairchild Packet C-119 | 79 |
| Ilyushin Il-14 | 28 |
| Vickers Viscount | 2 |
| De Havilland Canada Otter DHC-3 | 36 |
| Antonov An 12 | 62 |
| Lockheed Super Constellation | 9 |
| De Havilland Canada Caribou DHC-4 | 26 |
| Hawker Siddeley HS-748 | 68 |
| Tupolev Tu-124 | 3 |
| Boeing B 737-200 | 9 |
| Antonov An-32 | 122 |
| Ilyushin Il-76 | 27 |
| Dornier Do-228 | 31 |
| Embraer Legacy EBJ 135 | 4 |
| Lockheed C-130 Hercules | 6 |
| Boeing C-17 Globemaster III | 10 |
| Total Records : 750 | |
Helicopters
| Aircraft Name | Census Total |
|---|---|
| Sikorsky Whirlwind S-55C | 5 |
| Bell Bell 47G | 16 |
| Sikorsky S-62B | 4 |
| Mil Mi-4 | 78 |
| Aerospatiale Alouette III Chetak | 226 |
| Mil Mi-8 | 85 |
| Aerospatiale Cheetah SA-315 | 152 |
| Mil Mi-24/Mi-35 | 15 |
| Mil Mi-26 | 4 |
| HAL Dhruv | 33 |
| Mil Mi-17 | 119 |
| Total Records : 737 | |
Trainers
| Aircraft Name | Census Total |
|---|---|
| De Havilland Tigermoth DH 82 | 83 |
| North American Harvard T-6 | 223 |
| Percival Prentice | 55 |
| HAL HT-2 | 132 |
| HAL Kiran HJT-16 | 146 |
| PZL Iskra TS-11 | 66 |
| HAL Deepak HPT-32 | 54 |
| HAL HJT-36 | 3 |
| Bae Hawk 132 | 32 |
| Pilatus PC-7 | 75 |
| Total Records : 869 | |
Bombers
| Aircraft Name | Census Total |
|---|---|
| Consolidated Liberator B-24 | 43 |
| English Electric Canberra | 120 |
| Total Records : 163 | |
Note: All the data available here is publicly available in the Gazette of India, published by the Indian Government, or from public domain sources, press releases about Awards and Right-To-Information (RTI) Requests. Additionally data shared by veterans is added to the page with permission. No data with respect to serving officers below the rank of AVM is displayed. Information in Gazette of India and Award citations and photographs as released by the Indian Air Force are the only details displayed.