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List of maritime patrol aircraft

The following is a list of maritime patrol aircraft, which are sometimes referred to as Maritime reconnaissance, coastal reconnaissance or patrol bombers depending on the service and the time period, and are characterized by their use in controlling sea lanes.

Consolidated PBY Catalina maritime patrol aircraft on patrol

Maritime patrol aircraft

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Type Country Class Date Status No. Notes
AD Flying Boat UK 1916 27
Aichi H9A Japan 1940 retired 31
Airbus A319 MPA France 1995 In service 0 [1][notes 1]
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley UK 1936 retired 1,814
ATR 42 MP Surveyor Italy 1984 In service
ATR 72 MP Italy 1988 In service
ATR 72 ASW France 1988 In service
Avro Anson UK 1935 retired 6,688 [notes 2]
Avro Lancaster GR.III/MR.III/10MR/MP UK & Canada 1941 retired 1 (GR.III/MR.III)
70-75 (10MR/MP)		 [notes 3]
Avro Shackleton UK 1949 retired 185
B class blimp USA 1917 retired 20
BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4 UK 2004 cancelled 2010 9
Beechcraft King Air USA 1963 In service
Basler BT-67 USA 1990 In service
Beriev Be-6 USSR 1943 retired 123
Beriev Be-10 USSR 1956 retired 28
Beriev Be-12 USSR 1960 In service 143
Beriev Be-42 Russia 1986 In service 2
Beriev MBR-2 USSR 1931 retired
Blackburn Iris UK 1926 retired 5
Blackburn Perth UK 1933 retired 4
Blohm & Voss BV 138 Germany 1937 retired 297
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger United States 1942 retired 1
Boeing 737 Surveiller USA 1967 In service
Boeing P-8 Poseidon USA 2009 In service 155 [2]
Bombardier DHC-8 MPA/MSA variants Canada 2007 In service 26
Breguet 521 France 1933 37 [notes 4]
Breguet Alizé France 1956 89
Breguet Atlantic France 1965 115
Britten-Norman Defender/Islander UK 1970
C class blimp USA 1918 retired 10
C-Star class blimp UK 1918 10
CAMS 55 France 1928 112
Canadair CP-107 Argus Canada 1957 retired 33
Canadian Vickers Vancouver Canada 1929 retired 6
CANT Z.501 Italy 1934 200
CANT Z.506 Italy 1935 320+
Caproni Ca.314-SC Italy 1940 14
CASA C-212 MPA Spain 1971 12 [1]
CASA/IPTN CN-235 MPA/HC-144 Ocean Sentry Spain & Indonesia 1983 24+ [1]
Chyetverikov MDR-6 USSR 1937 27
Coastal class blimp UK 1916 35
Consolidated P2Y USA 1929 retired 78
Consolidated PBY Catalina USA 1935 3,305 [notes 5]
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado USA 1937 retired 217
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator USA 1939 976
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer USA 1943 retired 739
Convair P5Y USA 1950 2
Curtiss Model H USA 1914 478
Curtiss HS-1L & HS-2L USA 1917 1,178~
D class blimp USA 1920 6
Dassault Falcon 20G France 1963 46
Dassault Falcon 50M France 1976
Dassault Falcon 900 MSA France 1984
Diamond DA42 Guardian Austria 2002
Donnet-Denhaut flying boat France 1915 1,085~
Dornier Wal Germany 1922 250+
Dornier Do 24 Germany 1937 279
Dornier 228 Germany 1981
Douglas B-18 Bolo/Digby USA 1935 370
Douglas/BSAS Turbo Dakota USA 1991 5
Douglas PD-1 USA 1923 25
CASA C-295 MPA Spain 1997
Embraer EMB 111 Bandeirante Brazil 1968 16+
Embraer R-99 Brazil 2001 16+
P-99 (EMB-145MP) Brazil 2003
Fairey Gannet UK 1949 303
FBA Types A, B, C & S France 1913 1,000~
FBA Type H France 1915 2,000~
FBA Type S France 1917
Felixstowe F.2 UK 1916 175
Felixstowe F.3 UK 1917 182
Felixstowe F5L/Curtiss F5L UK & US 1918 227 [notes 6]
Fiat RS.14 Italy 1939 188
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Germany 1937 276
Fokker F27 200-MAR Netherlands 1955 [notes 7]
Fokker F27 Maritime Enforcer Netherlands 1955
Fokker T.IV Netherlands 1927 33
Fokker T.VIII Netherlands 1938 36
Friedrichshafen FF.60 Germany 1918 1
Gotha WD.9 Germany 1914 1
Gotha WD.27 Germany 1918 1
Grumman AF Guardian USA 1945 389
Grumman Tracker USA 1952 1,284
Hall PH USA 1929 24
Harbin SH-5 China 1976 6
Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod UK 1967 51
Hiro H4H Japan 1931 47
IAI 1124N Sea Scan Israel 1977 4
IAI Heron Israel 2005 UAV
Ilyushin Il-38 USSR 1967 58
Junkers Ju 290 Germany 1942 65
K-class blimp USA 1938 134
Kawanishi H3K Japan 1930 5
Kawanishi H6K Mavis Japan 1936 215
Kawanishi H8K Emily Japan 1941 131
Kawasaki P-1 Japan 2007 10
Kawasaki P-2J Japan 1966 83 [notes 8]
Keystone PK-1 USA 1930 18
Kyushu Q1W Japan 1943 153
Lockheed Hudson USA 1938 2,941
Lockheed PV-1 Ventura USA 1940 2,511
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon USA 1943 535
Lockheed P-2 Neptune USA 1945 1,036
Lockheed P-3 Orion USA 1959 757 [notes 9]
Lockheed P-7 USA 2000 0
Lockheed S-3 Viking USA 1972 188
Lohner L Austria-Hungary 1915 100+
Loire 70 France 1933 8
M class blimp USA 1944 4
Macchi M.C.99 Italy 1937 1
Mann Egerton Type B UK 1916 10
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.11 Norway 1931 29
Martin PM-1 USA 1930 30
Martin PM-2 USA 1931 27
Martin P2M USA 1929 1
Martin P3M USA 1931 19
Martin P4M Mercator USA 1946 46 [notes 10]
Martin P5M Marlin USA 1948 285
Martin P6M SeaMaster United States 1955 12
Martin PBM Mariner USA 1939 1,285
Myasishchev 3M/3MD USSR 1956 93 [notes 11]
Naval Aircraft Factory PN USA 1922 15
Nord 1402 Noroit France 1949 25
Norman Thompson N.T.4 UK 1916 26
North Sea class blimp UK 1917 14
Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton USA 2013 2 Drones
PZL M28B Bryza Poland 1984 11
Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H Yugoslavia 1938 19
Rohrbach Ro IV Denmark & UK 1925 2
Royal Aircraft Factory C.E.1 UK 1918 2
Saab Swordfish MPA Sweden 2016 [3][4]
Saro Lerwick UK 1938 21
Saro London UK 1934 31
Savoia-Marchetti S.55 Italy 1924 243+
Savoia-Marchetti S.59 Italy 1925 240+
Savoia-Marchetti SM.62 Italy 1926 64
Shaanxi Y-8F, Q & X China 1984
Shaanxi KQ-200 China 2015
Shin Meiwa PS-1 Japan 1967 25
Short Type 184 UK 1915 936
Short Empire UK 1936 9 [notes 12]
Short Rangoon UK 1930 6
Short S.26/M UK 1939 3
Short Seaford UK 1944 10
Short Seavan UK 1976
Short Shetland UK 1944 2
Short Singapore III UK 1934 37
Short Sunderland UK 1937 777
Submarine Scout class blimp UK 1915 60
Submarine Scout Pusher class blimp UK 1917 6
Submarine Scout Twin class blimp UK 1918 13
Submarine Scout Zero class blimp UK 1916 77
Supermarine Scapa UK 1932 15
Supermarine Southampton UK 1925 83
Supermarine Stranraer UK 1934 57 [notes 13]
Tupolev Tu-16T/PL/R/RM/SP USSR 1952 1,509 [notes 14]
Tupolev Tu-95MR USSR 1961 4
Tupolev Tu-142 USSR 1968 100
Vickers Warwick GR Mk.II and V UK 1939 328
Vickers Wellington GR.Mk.VIII/XI/XII/XIII/XIV UK 1936 2,230
Yokosuka H5Y Japan 1936 20
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.I Germany 1915 1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.II Germany 1916 1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.III Germany 1917 1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.IV Germany 1918 1

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Notes

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  1. ^ Proposal only, flight date is of airframe only
  2. ^ Production total of Mk.Is- includes trainers and bombers
  3. ^ Built in both countries, heavily modified in Canada
  4. ^ Developed from Short Calcutta
  5. ^ 620 Catalinas built in Canada and 24 in USSR
  6. ^ built in both countries, airframe by Curtiss, hull by Porte in the UK.)
  7. ^ unarmed variant
  8. ^ turboprop Lockheed P-2
  9. ^ Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is the Canadian designation for same aircraft with the Canadian Forces
  10. ^ Most diverted to other purposes
  11. ^ all variants
  12. ^ Two BOAC examples converted for the RAF with full weapons fit including fuselage depth charge racks and tail and top turrets; five Qantas Empire Airways/BOAC examples converted for the Royal Australian Air Force with makeshift weapons; and two stock TEAL examples used for visual patrols by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
  13. ^ More built in Canada than UK
  14. ^ Production figure includes all variants.

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c Airbus Military - Surveillance & Security Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Boeing Delivers First P-8A Poseidon to New Zealand".
  3. ^ "Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft". Saab AB. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
  4. ^ Khan, Bilal (2016-02-18). "How Saab is looking to thrive in the global ISR market". Quwa Defence News.

Bibliography

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  • Field, Hugh; Richardson, Doug (7 July 1979). "Inshore Maritime Market". Flight International. 115 (3668). Transport Press: 29–32 & 37.
  • Gaines, Mike (23 April 1983). "Inshore Maritime Market". Flight International. 123 (3859). Transport Press: 1115–1122.
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