List of active aircraft of the Afghan Air Force

This is the List of active aircraft of the Afghan Air Force.

An Afghan Air Corps Mi-17 helicopter takes off on a mission

Afghan MD 530F firing off its gun pods

Current Inventory

Aircraft	Origin	Type	Variant	In service	Notes
Combat Aircraft
Cessna 208	United States	ground attack / ISR	AC-208	10[1]
A-29 Super Tucano	Brazil	COIN / attack		24[2]	5 on order
Transport
Boeing 727	United States	VIP transport		1[2]	2 on order from Ariana Afghan Airlines[3]
C-130 Hercules	United States	transport	C-130H	4[2]
Cessna 208	United States	transport / utility		25[2]
Cessna 182	United States	transport / utility		6[4]
Pilatus PC-12	Switzerland	transport / utility	PC-12NG	18[5]
Helicopters
Mil Mi-17	Russia	utility	Mi-8/17	82[6]	30 of them are in use with the Special Mission Wing[7]
Mil Mi-24	Russia	attack	Mi-35	11;[8][9]
MD500 Defender	United States	light attack / training	MD 530F	29[2]
Bell UH-1	United States	utility	UH-1H	10[2]
HAL Cheetah	India	utility		3[2]
Trainer Aircraft
MD 500	United States	light attack / training	MD 530F		4 on order[2]

References

1. "World Air Forces 2020". Flightglobal Insight. 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
2. "World Air Forces 2017". Flightglobal Insight. 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
3. "Afghan AF acquires 3 Boeing 727s". Air Forces Monthly. Key Publishing: 30. December 2014.
4. "Afghan air force receives first three Cessna planes". kansas. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
5. "Afghan SpecOps gets PC-12NG Transport Planes." defenseindustrydaily.com, 12 October 2012,
6. International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Military Balance 2016. London: Taylor&Francis. James Hackett. p. 504. ISBN 9781857438352.
7. http://www.armyaviationmagazine.com/index.php/archive/not-so-current/748-the-afghanistan-special-mission-wing
8. "Order of Battle — Afghanistan". Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
9. The Military Balance 2016. p.231