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

Type	Country	Class	Date	Status	No.	Notes
AD Flying Boat	UK		1916		27
Aichi H9A	Japan		1940		31
Airbus A319 MPA	France		1995		0	[1][notes 1]
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley	UK		1936		1,814
ATR 42 MP Surveyor	Italy		1984
ATR 72 MP	Italy		1988
ATR 72 ASW	France		1988
Avro Anson	UK		1935		6,688	[notes 2]
Avro Lancaster GR.III/MR.III/10MR/MP	UK & Canada		1941			[notes 3]
Avro Shackleton	UK		1949		185
B class blimp	USA		1917		20
BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4	UK		2010		9
Beechcraft King Air	USA		1963
Basler BT-67	USA		1990
Beriev Be-6	USSR		1943		123
Beriev Be-10	USSR		1956		28
Beriev Be-12	USSR		1960		143
Beriev Be-42	Russia		1986		2
Beriev MBR-2	USSR		1931
Blackburn Iris	UK		1926		5
Blackburn Perth	UK		1933		4
Blohm & Voss BV 138	Germany		1937		297
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger	United States		1942		1
Boeing 737 Surveiller	USA		1967
Boeing P-8 Poseidon	USA		2009		100
Bombardier DHC-8 MPA/MSA variants	Canada		2007		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		10
C-Star class blimp	UK		1918		10
CAMS 55	France		1928		112
Canadair CP-107 Argus	Canada		1957		33
Canadian Vickers Vancouver	Canada		1929		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		78
Consolidated PBY Catalina	USA		1935		3,305	[notes 5]
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado	USA		1937		217
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator	USA		1939		976
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer	USA		1943		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 Do 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 P-99	Brazil		1999
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
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 State		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	Sweden		2016			[2][3]
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
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

References

Notes

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

1. Airbus Military - Surveillance & Security Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft". Saab AB. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
3. Khan, Bilal (2016-02-18). "How Saab is looking to thrive in the global ISR market". Quwa Defence News.

Bibliography

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