The following list of military aircraft of the Czech Republic is a list of military aircraft and civil aircraft for military use currently in service with the Czech Air Force, the Czech Land Forces (unmanned aerial vehicles) and the Flight Training Center as well as retired aircraft.

Current aircraft

Czech Air Force

TypeOriginClassRoleIntroducedIn serviceTotalNotes
Aero L-159A ALCACzech RepublicJetAttack20001672[1][2]
Aero L-159T1Czech RepublicJetTrainer200755[1][2]
Aero L-159T2Czech RepublicJetTrainer201933
Airbus A319CJGermanyJetTransport200622[1][2]
CASA C-295MSpainPropellerTransport201066[1][2]
Let L-410 TurboletCzechoslovakiaPropellerTransport198946[1][2]
Let L-410FGCzechoslovakiaPropellerPatrol198522[1][2][3]
Mil Mi-24 V/Mi-35USSR/RussiaRotorcraftattack2004 ?17All to be donated to Ukraine in 2023[4][5]
Mil Mi-8USSRRotorcraftTransport1984118[6][7]
Mil Mi-17USSRRotorcraftTransport1989528[1][2][8]
Mil Mi-171ShRussiaRotorcraftTransport20041516[1][2][9]
PZL W-3 SokółPolandRotorcraftUtility19951011[1][2]
Bell UH-1Y VenomUSARotorcraftUtility2023110[10]
Bell AH-1Z ViperUSARotorcraftAttack2023310[10]
Saab JAS 39 GripenSwedenJetMulti-role20051414[1][2]

Flight Training Center

Flight Training Center (Czech: Centrum leteckého výcviku; CLV) in Pardubice is not a part of the Air Force. Primary flight training was outsourced as of 1 April 2004. CLV is a branch of LOM PRAHA s.p., state owned company.[11]

TypeOriginClassRoleIntroducedIn serviceTotalNotes
Aero L-39C AlbatrosCzechoslovakiaJetTrainer19727[12][13]
Evektor-Aerotechnik EV-97Czech RepublicPropellerTrainer1[12]
Let L-410 TurboletCzechoslovakiaPropellerTransport12[12][14]
Mil Mi-17USSRRotorcraftTransport198535[12][15]
Enstrom 480BUSARotorcraftTrainer20188[16]
Zlín Z-43Czech RepublicPropellerTrainer1[12]
Zlín Z-142Czech RepublicPropellerTrainer19929[12]

Czech Land Forces

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Czech Army are used mainly by the Unmanned Reconnaissance Aerial Vehicle Company of the 102nd Reconnaissance Battalion with one "Scan Eagle Group" and four "RQ-11B Raven Sections" ready for deployment (as of 2017).[17]

TypeOriginClassRoleIntroducedIn serviceTotalNotes
Elbit SkylarkIsraelUAVReconnaissance20092Acquired for overseas deployment.[18]
RQ-11B RavenUnited StatesUAVReconnaissance6[17]
Scan EagleUnited StatesUAVReconnaissance10[17]
Wasp IIIUnited StatesUAVReconnaissance2010Acquired for ISTAR and FAC units.[19]
RQ-20 PumaUnited StatesUAVReconnaissance2008One system RQ-20A Puma was purchased in 2018. In 2022 was purchased four systems Puma 3 AE.

Retired aircraft

Czech Air Force

TypeOriginClassRoleIntroducedRetiredTotalNotes
Antonov An-12BPUSSRPropellerTransport198119941Introduced in 1964 in USSR.[20]
Antonov An-26USSRPropellerTransport198220114[21]
Tupolev Tu-134AUSSRJetTransport197119961
Tupolev Tu-154MUSSRJetTransport199820072[22]
Aero L-29 DelfinCzechoslovakiaJetTrainer1963200332
Antonov An-30USSRPropellerPatrol198820031[23]
Mil Mi-2USSRRotorcraftUtility1981200438
Mil Mi-24DRussiaRotorcraftAttack19782022124 Donated to Ukraine in 2022[24]
MiG-21MFUSSRJetFighter1971200572
MiG-21UMUSSRJetFighter/Trainer1972200522[25]
MiG-23BNUSSRJetFighter-bomber1977199432
MiG-23MFUSSRJetFighter1978199413
MiG-23MLUSSRJetFighter1981199817
MiG-23UMUSSRJetFighter/Trainer197819988
MiG-29AUSSRJetFighter198919959
MiG-29UBUSSRJetFighter/Trainer198919951
Sukhoi Su-22USSRJetFighter-bomber198420023756 as of 1990; Slovakia received 19 in 1993.
Sukhoi Su-25USSRJetAttack1984200025
Yak-40USSRJetTransport197220202museum exponats[26]
Bombardier Challenger CL-601CanadaJetTransport199220211[27]
Aero L-39ZA AlbatrosCzechoslovakiaJetTrainer198920199[28]
Antonov An-24VUSSRPropellerTransport196720054[29]

Czech Land Forces

TypeOriginClassRoleIntroducedRetiredTotalNotes
Sojka IIICzech RepublicUAVReconnaissance19992011
Tu-143USSRUAVReconnaissance19851995[30]

See also

References

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