Aircraft | Origin | Role | Version | Quantity | Note |
Fixed Wing Aircraft |
Antonov An-12 | Soviet Union | Military transport aircraft | | 4[1] | |
Antonov An-24 | Soviet Union | Military transport aircraft | V | 3[1] | V.I.P Transport. Known as Balaka. |
Antonov An-26 | Soviet Union | Military transport aircraft | | 6[1] | |
Cessna T-37 Tweet | USA | Jet Trainer | B | 11[2] | Retired from active service. Replaced with Hongdu K-8W jet trainers.[3] |
de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter | Canada | Military transport aircraft | | 1 | Ex Indian Air Force. |
Douglas Dakota | USA | Military transport aircraft | | 1 | Ex Indian Air Force. |
Fouga CM.170 Magister | France | Jet Trainer | | 19 | Retired in favor of more capable Aero L-39 Albatros. |
F-7 Air Guard | China | Fighter aircraft | MB | 10 | Retired in favor of more capable F-7BGI. |
Nanchang A-5 | China | Ground attack/Close air support | C | 8[2] | Retired on 4 November 2014 |
North American F-86 Sabre | USA | Fighter aircraft | F40 | 8 | Surrendered by Pakistan Air Force. |
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 | Soviet Union | Fighter aircraft | MF/UB | 12 | 10 MiF-21MFs and 2 MiG-21UBs |
Shenyang F-5 | China | Interceptor aircraft | | 8 | |
Shenyang FT-5 | China | Interceptor aircraft | | 3 | Trainer version of the F-5 |
Shenyang F-6 | China | OCU | | 34 | 1 squadron gifted by Pakistan in 1980s. |
Helicopters |
Aérospatiale Alouette III | France | Utility helicopter | | 1 | Ex Indian Air Force. |
Agusta-Bell 205 | Italy | Transport Helicopter | | 2 | Ex Imperial Iranian Air Force. |
Mil Mi-8 | Soviet Union | Transport Helicopter | | 8 | |
Westland Wessex | UK | Transport helicopter | 5 | 2 | Former Royal Navy helicopters donated by the United Kingdom in 1973. |