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Australian, New Zealand & Papua New Guinea
Military Aircraft Serials & History
 This site is devoted to providing as complete a record as possible of aircraft operated by the ADF, NZDF & PNGDF.
Included where known are brief summaries of the history and current status of aircraft employed in Australian New Zealand & PNG Military Service.

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Aircraft of the Australian Army

 
 
 

 
     
 

Australian Army Aircraft.

  
     
 
Aircraft History Page Image Gallery Aircraft History Page Image Gallery
A98 - Cessna 180A/D/E Highlight for Album: Cessna A98-063 A1 - Bell 47G Sioux Highlight for Album: Soiux
A2 - Bell UH-1H Iroquois Iroquois A2-110 A14 - Pilatus PC-6B Turbo Porter Highlight for Album: Porter A14-690
A15 - Boeing CH-47C/D/F Chinook Chinook A15-303 Photo Michael Formosa A17 - CAC CA-32/Bell 206B/OH-58A Kiowa Highlight for Album: Kiowa A17-012
A18 - GAF Nomad N22B/N24A Nomad-A18-311 A22 - Aerospatiale AS350B Squirrel A22-005 with Airforce on the tail and
A25 - Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk A25-111 A32 - Beech King Air 200/350

 
A38 - Eurocopter Tiger Highlight for Album: Tiger A38-013 A40 - NH Industries MRH-90 Taipan Highlight for Album: MRH-90 A40-015
A43 - AAI Corporation RQ-7B Shadow 200 UAV RQ-7 Shadow A43-549 A50 Aerosonde Mk.2 Image result for Australia Defence Aerosonde
A52 - Airbus EC 135 T2+

 

 Highlight for Album: Airbus EC.135 T2 A60 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk
 A25-111
A64 Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian

29 Airframes to be acquired under LAND 4503 Phase 1 to replace the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter with deliveries to commence in the 3rd quarter of 2025.

 Unknown Aircraft
Planned Acquisitions: (Serial number allocations not yet available)
       
   
 
     
 

Leased, loaned, contracted and other Australian Army Aircraft.

  
     
Aircraft History Page Image Gallery Operators Aircraft History Page Image Gallery Operators
Auster Aircraft Ltd Auster AOP-9 Auster AOP-9 XP285 Museum of Army Flying Beechcraft Queen Air

Gallery Returning soon

 Army Survey Corps
Bell 412 Bell 412 VH-LSV Army Aviation Training Centre Cessna 305 0-1 Bird Dog Cessna O-1E Bird Dog 51-11969 161 (Independent) Reconnaissance Flight
Construcciones Aeron uticas SA CASA 212 Aviocar CASA 212 VH-MQD Army Parachute Training School De Havilland Canada Twin Otter Twin Otter VH-HPT 173 Sqn
Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante Bandeirante VH-XFD 173 Sqn Eurocopter EC135
See also:

N52 - Airbus EC 135 T2+

 EC-135 VH-VJB Glass cockpit transition training for Australian Army ARH Tiger

Air 9000 Phase 7 Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) project
     

Page Authors: Darren Crick, Brendan Cowan & Martin Edwards

Converted to CMS 28th August 2025

Page Updated 26th October 2022