See main article: Royal Norwegian Air Force. 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.
| Type |
| Period | Notes | |
| Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| 6 | 1915- | |||
| 3 | 1916-1924 | |||
| 4 | 1917-1924 | |||
| 18 | 1917-1931 | |||
| 7 | 1918- | Some MF.1s were rebuilt to MF.4 to bring the number to seven | ||
| 8 | 1918-1926 | |||
| 1 | 1918 | |||
| 5 | 1920-1923 | |||
| 2 | 1920-1924 | Last flight 1924, scrapped 1927 and 1930 | ||
| 2 | 1921-1927 | |||
| 1 | 1921-1928 | Gift | ||
| 30 | 1922-1935 | |||
| 2 | 1923-1931 | |||
| 2 8B: 2 | 1924-1934 1930-1939* | |||
| Douglas DT-2B/C | 8 | 1925-1940 | Single example delivered by Douglas, the rest built under licence by Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk. | |
| 15 | 1926-1932 | |||
| 4 | 1929-1940 | |||
| 29 | 1932-1940 | Three aircraft interned in Finland were used by the Finns until 1944 | ||
| 4 | 1936-1940 | Five were ordered to save an Italian-Norwegian cod fish trading deal, one crashed in Italy almost killing Finn Lützow-Holm | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 1940 | |
| Norwegian Army Air Service | ||||
| 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. | ||
| (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. | ||
| (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. | ||
| (1) | 1914-1925 | S.3, trainer donated by Roald Amundsen in 1914 and transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service. | ||
| 1 | 1914-1915 | Tryggve Gran's Nordsjøen | ||
| 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 | ||||
| Based on FF.1 | ||||
| 4 | 1917- | Based on a Farman Sem-Jacobsen had obtained drawings of. | ||
| XL II: 2 LX: 10 | 1916-1917 1917-1922 | |||
| 15 | 1917-1925 | |||
| 5 | 1918-1930 | The last, delivered in 1922, was a gift from Roald Amundsen. | ||
| 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: 1 T.1B: 6 T.1C: 11 | 1918 1919- 1921-1924 | T.1, based on BE.2e, was a failure. T.1B, based on Avro 504 got into use, but was no success. | |
| 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 | |
| 5 | 1921-1930 | |||
| 14 | 1923-1929 | Hannoversche Waggonfabrik's CL.V built under licence | ||
| Måke I: 2 Måke II: 7 Måke III: 4 | -1928 1921- 1928- | Hansa Brandenburg W.29 built under licence, Måke I and II by Norsk Aerofabrik, Måke III by HF | ||
| 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 | |
| 13 | 1930-1940 | Three second-hand aircraft bought from de Havilland, 10 built under licence by HF | ||
| 38 | 1933-1940 | All built under licence by HF | ||
| Cierva C.30A | 1 | 1935-1936 | Gift, sold after a year, hardly used | |
| 1 | 1932-1936 | One Jaktfalk and One Fury bought for a fly-off for the next Norw. fighter | ||
| Hawker Fury I | 1 | 1933-1936 | ||
| 4 | 1936-1940 | 40 projected built under licence by HFF, project abandoned when Scimitar was not selected by RAF | ||
| Mk.I: 6 Mk.II: 6 | 1937-1940 1940 | |||
| 4 | 1938-1940 | Bought in a dried and salted cod deal. In addition, two Ca.312 were ordered in the spring of 1940. | ||
| 19 | 1940 | 19 from an order of 24 delivered prior to the German invasion, most still in crates. Shipment with last five diverted to UK | ||
| War years: Little Norway, squadrons in RAF and the Stockholm Element | ||||
| 331 Sqdn | ||||
| 331 & 332 Sqdn | ||||
| 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 | |||
| 24 | 330 Sqdn | |||
| Little Norway | ||||
| 36 | Little Norway | |||
| Douglas 8A-5 | 36 | Little Norway | ||
| 2 | Little Norway | |||
| Little Norway | ||||
| 7 | Little Norway | |||
| Noorduyn Norseman IV | 1 | Little Norway, rented a short period | ||
| Consolidated Catalina IIIA | ||||
| Mk. III: Mk.V: | ||||
| Stockholm Element | ||||
| Royal Norwegian Air Force 1945- | ||||
| Agusta-Bell 47J/J-2 Bell 47D-1 G-3 | 5 6 3 | 1958-1967 1953-1971 1954-1970 | ||
| Airspeed Oxford I/II | 22 | 1947-1953 | ||
| Avro Anson I | 10 | 1947-1951 | ||
| 37 | 1963-1990 | |||
| 18 | 1987- | |||
| Boeing B-17G-BO | 10 | 1946-1953 | ex-USAAF | |
| Cessna L-19A (O-1A) | 27 | 1960-1992 | ||
| IV A: (3) IV B: 12 PBY-5A: 6 | 1945-1946 1945-1954 1954-1961 | |||
| 3 | 1972- | |||
| 10 | 1953-1968 | |||
| 5 | 1967-2001 | |||
| T.III: 3 FB VI: 19 | 1947-1952 1945-1952 | |||
| T.55: 6 F.III: 20 FB 52: 36 | 1952-1955 1948-1957 1949-1957 | |||
| Douglas C-47A | 7 10 | 1945-1946 1950-1974 | ||
| Douglas C-53D | 3 | 1945-1946 | ||
| 74 | 1945-1957 | |||
| 8 | 1956-1969 | |||
| 30 | 1945-1954 | |||
| A: 60 B: 14 | 1980-2022 1980-2022 | Original order of 72 aircraft built under licence by Fokker, two attrition aircraft from GD. On 6 January 2022, Norway announced that all F-16s had been retired.[1] | ||
| 18 | 1961-1969 | |||
| 18 | 1945-1951 | |||
| 7 | 1945-1950 | |||
| 6 | 1969-2008 | |||
| 5 | 2008- | |||
| Lockheed F-104 Starfighter (Canadair CF-104) | F-104G: 19 TF-104G: 4 CF-104: 19 CF-104D: 3 | 1963-1981 1963-1983 1973-1983 1973-1983 | ||
| Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIA | 25 | 2016- | 52 F-35As planned in total. | |
| B: 5 C: 4 N: 2 | 1969-1989 1989- 1980- | |||
| Lockheed T-33A | 22 | 1953-1968 | ||
| 18 | 1981- | |||
| 24 | 1945-1959 | |||
| 39 | 1945-1956 | |||
| F-86F: 115 F-86K: 64 | 1957-1967 1955-1967 | |||
| 2 | 1945-1956 | |||
| A: 78 B: 14 RF-5A: 16 | 1966-2000 1966-2000 1969-2000 | |||
| Piper L-18C | 16 | 1955-1992 | ||
| F-84E: 6 F:84G: 200 RF-84F: 35 | 1951-1956 1952-1960 1956-1970 | |||
| 30 | 1956-1988 | |||
| Short Sunderland Mk V | (11) | 1945 | ||
| Sikorsky H-19D-4 | 4 | 1958-1967 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1 | 1945-1946 | |||
| AW101 SAR Queen | 10 | 2020- | 16 in total ordered.[2] | |