Королевские военно-воздушные силы Канады
Canada has one air force and only one: every military aircraft in Canadian uniform, from the CH-148 Cyclones that fly off navy frigates to the CH-147F Chinooks that work for the army, belongs to the Royal Canadian Air Force — a service founded on 1 April 1924, abolished by name in the unification of 1968, rebuilt as Air Command in 1975, given its name back on 16 August 2011, and now roughly 15,500 regular members flying about 300 aircraft while it argues in public about whether to finish buying the F-35.
The RCAF story: founded twice, abolished once, renamed back — and still arguing about the fighter
1914–1924: a bush-flying air force that had to be told twice it was allowed to exist
Canadian military aviation began badly. The Canadian Aviation Corps of 1 September 1914 consisted of two officers, one mechanic and one Burgess-Dunne floatplane, which was shipped to England, left in the open and never flew again. Canadians who wanted to fly in the First World War flew for the British: roughly a quarter of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service pilot corps by 1918 was Canadian, and the names still known — Billy Bishop, Raymond Collishaw, William Barker — wore British uniforms. A Canadian Air Force of two squadrons was raised in England in 1918 and disbanded in 1920. A second Canadian Air Force, formed under the Air Board on 17 May 1920, was a part-time refresher school at Camp Borden that trained no new pilots at all. King George V granted the royal title on 15 February 1923; the Canadian government did not act on it until 1 April 1924, and that is the date the service counts as its birthday.
1939–1945: the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 6 Group and 17,000 dead
What the RCAF actually did between the wars was civil work — forest-fire patrols, aerial photography, anti-smuggling flights against Prohibition rum-runners, the 1927–28 Hudson Strait Expedition. The "Big Cut" of 1932 nearly destroyed it. Then came the Second World War, and Canada built the thing it is still best known for. Under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, signed in December 1939, Canada ran more than a hundred flying and ground schools and turned out over 130,000 aircrew for the Commonwealth. The RCAF peaked at 215,000 men and women in January 1944 and ended the war the fourth largest Allied air force, with 48 squadrons overseas. No. 6 Group of RAF Bomber Command, formed on 1 January 1943, was Canadian, and it paid for it: roughly 13,000 RCAF personnel were killed on operations or died as prisoners, and about 4,000 more in training and accidents. The RCAF was also the first Canadian service to recruit women, forming the Women’s Division in 1941.
1945–1959: NATO, NORAD, twelve squadrons in Europe and the end of the Arrow
The Cold War made the RCAF, for a decade, one of the larger air forces in the Western alliance. Canada joined NATO in 1949 and sent No. 1 Air Division to Europe: four wings, twelve squadrons, at North Luffenham and then Marville in France, Grostenquin in France, Zweibrücken and Baden-Soellingen in West Germany, with the headquarters at Metz. Canadair built 1,815 Sabres, and Canadian Sabre pilots were widely reckoned the best gunners in NATO. At home, three radar lines — Pinetree, Mid-Canada and the DEW Line — were built across the country, and on 12 May 1958 Canada and the United States formalised the binational North American Air Defense Command that had begun operating the previous September. The service strength peaked at about 54,000 in 1954 and 41 squadrons in 1955. And then, on 20 February 1959, the government cancelled the Avro CF-105 Arrow, and Canadian aviation has been arguing about it ever since.
1959–1968: nuclear weapons, the Starfighter and the abolition of the RCAF
What followed the Arrow was the nuclear decade, which Canada has never been comfortable about. The RCAF took 66 McDonnell CF-101 Voodoos armed with the nuclear-tipped AIR-2 Genie, and 56 Bomarc surface-to-air missiles with W40 warheads at North Bay and La Macaza. The CF-104 Starfighter replaced the Sabre in Europe in the nuclear strike role, sitting quick reaction alert with a live bomb on board. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker refused for years to accept the warheads the weapons had been bought for; the issue split his cabinet, brought down his government in February 1963 and was settled by Lester Pearson, who accepted them on 31 December 1963. Then, on 1 February 1968, the Royal Canadian Air Force ceased to exist. The Canadian Forces Reorganization Act merged the three services into one, scattered the air elements among six functional commands, and put airmen into a green army uniform that most of them hated.
1968–2011: Air Command, the Hornet, the Gulf and the long wait for the name back
It took seven years to admit the mistake in part. Air Command was formed on 2 September 1975 and gathered the flying back together; the wing structure returned in the 1990s. The aircraft consolidated too: 138 CF-188 Hornets from 1982 replaced the Voodoo, the Starfighter and the CF-5 all at once, and Canadian Hornets fought in the Gulf in 1991 — the first Canadian shots fired in anger since Korea — over Kosovo in 1999, over Libya in 2011 and over Iraq and Syria from 2014. But the post-Cold War cuts were brutal. Canadian Forces Europe closed in 1994. Summerside went in 1991, Chatham in 1989, Baden-Soellingen and Lahr with the European withdrawal. The Sea King flew for fifty years while four replacement programmes failed. On 16 August 2011 the government gave the air force its name back, along with the navy and the army, and the RCAF marked its centenary on 1 April 2024.
2011–2026: one fighter competition, two reversals, a review that will not end
The modern record is honest only if you say the difficult parts. The fighter replacement ran from a sole-source F-35 announcement in 2010, through a cancelled decision, an interim Super Hornet buy abandoned in a trade dispute with Boeing, a purchase of 18 second-hand Australian Hornets instead, a full competition, and a contract for 88 F-35As signed on 9 January 2023 — and then, on 14 March 2025, a government review of that contract, which eighteen months later has still not reported. Canada is paid up for sixteen aircraft and undecided about seventy-two. Meanwhile the CC-295 Kingfisher is years late into full service, the CH-149 Cormorant is being rebuilt to last into the 2040s, the CP-140 Aurora leaves in 2030 with P-8A Poseidons arriving to replace it, the CC-330 Husky is still being converted into a tanker, and the Auditor General keeps reporting that the air force cannot recruit and retain the people to fly and fix what it already has. An internal readiness report in early 2025 put the share of RCAF aircraft judged serviceable at about 40 per cent.
The Royal Canadian Air Force in numbers
Услуга
- Название на родном языке
- Aviation royale canadienneCanada is officially bilingual and so is its air force. The French name is used in full in Quebec and in francophone units: 3e Escadre Bagotville, 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, 2e Division aérienne du Canada. The service motto is the Latin Sic itur ad astra, "such is the pathway to the stars", inherited from the Canadian Air Force of 1920.
- Основан
- 1 April 1924Canadian military aviation runs in broken blocks. The Canadian Aviation Corps existed for a few months in 1914; a Canadian Air Force of two squadrons served in England in 1918–20; a second Canadian Air Force was formed under the Air Board on 17 May 1920. King George V granted the royal title on 15 February 1923 but the Canadian government only gave effect to it on 1 April 1924. The service was then abolished by name on 1 February 1968 and the name restored on 16 August 2011.
- Часть
- Canadian Armed ForcesCanada has no separate naval air arm and no separate army aviation. Every military aircraft in Canadian service belongs to the RCAF, including 12 Wing Shearwater’s CH-148 Cyclones, which deploy aboard Royal Canadian Navy frigates, and 1 Wing’s CH-146 Griffons and CH-147F Chinooks, which work for the Canadian Army. The Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Air Arm and Canadian Army aviation existed as separate services only until unification in 1968 and are covered separately.
- Штаб-квартира
- National Defence Headquarters, OttawaThe Commander of the RCAF, normally a lieutenant-general, sits at NDHQ in Ottawa and reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff. The operational headquarters is 1 Canadian Air Division at 17 Wing Winnipeg, which is simultaneously the Canadian NORAD Region headquarters.
- High formations
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- 1 Canadian Air Division — operations, and the Canadian NORAD Region, Winnipeg
- 2 Canadian Air Division — individual training and education, Winnipeg
- 3 Canadian Space Division — space operations, Ottawa
- RCAF Aerospace Warfare Centre — doctrine, test and evaluation, history and heritage, Trenton
3 Canadian Space Division was stood up in July 2022 from the former Director General Space, which is why the RCAF describes itself as an air and space force. 1 Canadian Air Division carries the number of the Cold War air division in Europe, disbanded at Baden-Soellingen on 31 July 1994 and reactivated in Winnipeg on 31 July 1997.
- Командир
- LGen Jamie Speiser-BlanchetIn post since 10 July 2025, the 22nd Commander and the first woman to command the Royal Canadian Air Force. A helicopter pilot commissioned in 1990.
- Пилотажная команда
- 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, the SnowbirdsFormed informally at Moose Jaw in 1971 and made a squadron in 1978. Nine aircraft fly the show out of a fleet of eleven CT-114 Tutors. The team flies its last Tutor season in 2026 and then stands down from display flying until about 2030, when it is to re-form on the CT-157 Siskin II. Canada’s earlier teams included the Blue Devils on Vampires, the Fireballs and Sky Lancers in Europe on Sabres, the Golden Hawks of 1959–64 and the Golden Centennaires of 1967.
- Squadron numbering
- 400 seriesCanadian squadrons carry numbers in the 400 block, allocated to the Dominions under Article XV of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan agreement of December 1939 so that Canadian, Australian and New Zealand squadrons could serve inside the RAF command structure while remaining national units. The lineages are published by the Directorate of History and Heritage and several current squadrons trace directly to wartime units.
Сила
- Regular Force personnel
- about 15,50015,553 Regular Force members, 2,160 Primary Reserve members and 1,448 civilian staff as of September 2023, the most recent full breakdown the department has published for the air force alone. The RCAF is the smallest of the three Canadian services. For comparison, the wartime peak was 215,000 in January 1944 and the Cold War peak about 54,000 in 1954.
- Personnel shortfall
- Canadian Armed Forces about 3,000 short of a 71,500 Regular Force establishmentThe shortfall is a Canadian Armed Forces figure rather than an RCAF one, because the department does not publish an audited air force establishment. It has narrowed sharply: the Chief of the Defence Staff described a shortage of roughly 16,000 across the Regular Force and Primary Reserve in 2023, and by 31 July 2026 the Regular Force stood at 68,473 against 71,500 authorised, a shortfall of 3,027, with the Primary Reserve at 33,315 against 38,800. The Auditor General’s report of 21 October 2025 found the forces had recruited about 15,000 people against a target of just over 19,700 over three years, that only one applicant in thirteen was enrolled, and that the median time from application to enrolment was 245 to 271 days against a target of 100 to 150. The department reported 7,310 Regular Force enrolments in 2025/26, its best year in more than thirty, while warning of continued critical shortages in specific trades.
- Боевой самолет
- about 85 CF-188 Hornets
- CF-188A/B Hornet — roughly 85 on charge at 3 Wing Bagotville and 4 Wing Cold Lake
On charge, not available. Canada took 138 CF-188s between 1982 and 1988 — 98 single-seat A and 40 two-seat B — and bought 18 second-hand Australian F/A-18A/B airframes plus seven more for spares from 2019. Departmental figures for 2025 give about 85 aircraft in service, and the Hornet Extension Project covers up to 88 airframes in its first phase and 36 in the combat-capability second phase. No F-35A has yet been delivered.
- Всего самолетов
- roughly 300 on the RCAF chargePublished totals range from about 290 to about 390 depending on whether contractor-owned and Milit-Air-owned training aircraft, small uncrewed systems and stored airframes are counted. The RCAF itself now owns the Future Aircrew Training fleets, which it leases to the contractor SkyAlyne, so the boundary has moved.
- Пригодность к эксплуатации
- about 40 per centAn internal Department of National Defence military readiness document dated 18 February 2025 assessed only about 40 per cent of RCAF aircraft as serviceable. The Auditor General has repeatedly found the department’s published readiness figures optimistic, and the fighter force audit of 2018 found that the CF-188 fleet could not meet the commitment the government had set for it.
- оборонный бюджет
- more than C$63 billion (2025/26, defence-wide)A defence-wide figure, not an RCAF one — Canada does not publish a service-level budget. The government reported more than C$63 billion across the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces and other partners in 2025/26; the department’s own planned spending for 2026/27 is C$51.7 billion. Canada reached the NATO two per cent target in 2025/26 after years of missing it, and signed up at the Hague summit in June 2025 to the alliance’s new 3.5 per cent core and 5 per cent total targets by 2035.
- NORAD commitment
- Fighters on alert at Bagotville and Cold LakeCanada has committed fighters to NORAD alert continuously since 1958. Today the alert is held by 3 Wing Bagotville for the east and 4 Wing Cold Lake for the west, with four northern forward operating locations at Inuvik, Yellowknife, Iqaluit and Goose Bay from which alert aircraft can be pushed north. The Canadian NORAD Region headquarters is at Winnipeg and the Sector Air Operations Centre is at 22 Wing North Bay.
Инфраструктура
- Wings
- 15 wings on 11 flying bases
- Fighter: 4 Wing Cold Lake, 3 Wing Bagotville
- Air mobility: 8 Wing Trenton, 17 Wing Winnipeg
- Maritime: 12 Wing Shearwater, 14 Wing Greenwood, 19 Wing Comox
- Tactical aviation: 1 Wing Kingston, with squadrons at Borden, Gagetown, Edmonton, Valcartier, Saint-Hubert and Petawawa
- Search and rescue: 9 Wing Gander, and the SAR squadrons at Comox, Greenwood, Trenton and Winnipeg
- Training: 15 Wing Moose Jaw, 16 Wing Borden, 17 Wing Winnipeg
- Air defence and expeditionary: 22 Wing North Bay, 2 Wing Bagotville, 5 Wing Goose Bay
- Space: 7 Wing, Ottawa
A Canadian wing is the principal lodger formation on a base, which is why 14 Wing Greenwood and CFB Greenwood are the same place under two names. 1 Wing Kingston is unusual: its headquarters is at Kingston, where no flying squadron is based, and its six squadrons are spread across army garrisons from Edmonton to Gagetown.
- Closed air bases
- More than 100 since 1945The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan left Canada with well over a hundred aerodromes, most of which became municipal airports. The Cold War added the Pinetree, Mid-Canada and DEW radar lines and four wings in Europe. The heavy closures came in three waves: the European withdrawal of 1969–94 (Zweibrücken, Marville, Grostenquin, Metz, Lahr, Baden-Soellingen), the 1989 budget round (Chatham, Summerside, Mont Apica, Namao as an air base), and the 1990s consolidation.
- Northern infrastructure
- Four forward operating locations and CFS AlertInuvik, Yellowknife, Iqaluit and Goose Bay are austere airfields kept ready for fighter and tanker operations in the Arctic, with hangars, fuel and alert accommodation but no permanently based aircraft. CFS Alert on Ellesmere Island, at 82°31’N, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place on earth and is an RCAF station. The 2022 NORAD modernisation package funds upgrades to all four forward operating locations.
- Самая длинная взлетно-посадочная полоса
- 3,840 m at Cold LakeRunway 13L/31R at 4 Wing Cold Lake, alongside the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, the largest block of controlled military airspace in Canada. Goose Bay’s 08/26 at 3,367 m is the next longest on an RCAF base, built by the United States in 1941 for the transatlantic ferry route.
- Alert holding
- NORAD alert 24/7Canadian fighters have stood NORAD alert without a break since 1958. The commitment is not published in detail, but it is met from Bagotville and Cold Lake and has been surged repeatedly — after 11 September 2001, during Russian long-range aviation probes of the Canadian Air Defence Identification Zone, and in February 2023, when a CF-188 pursued and a United States F-22 shot down an unidentified object over the Yukon.
- Shared civil airports
- Five17 Wing shares Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International; 19 Wing shares Comox Valley International; 412 Squadron operates from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International; 443 Squadron’s Cyclones fly from Victoria International; 9 Wing shares Gander International. Shearwater, uniquely, is now a heliport: its fixed-wing runways are closed and 12 Wing flies helicopters from a shortened strip.
How the Royal Canadian Air Force is organised
Three divisions and fifteen wings under one commander in Ottawa. The Canadian oddity is that there is only one flying service: the Cyclones that go to sea on navy frigates and the Chinooks that work for the army at Petawawa are all Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft with air force crews, because Canada abolished its separate naval and army air arms in 1968 and never brought them back.
Royal Canadian Air Force Headquarters
The Commander of the RCAF, who is also Chief of the Air Force Staff, and the air staff at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. The commander is normally a lieutenant-general and reports to the Chief of the Defence Staff. Beside the commander sit the deputy commander, a major-general, and the RCAF Command Chief Warrant Officer.
1 Canadian Air Division
The operational command and control formation, at 17 Wing Winnipeg, which generates and commands all Canadian air power for domestic and overseas operations. It is simultaneously the Canadian NORAD Region headquarters and the standing Joint Force Air Component headquarters, and it owns eleven wings. It carries the number of the air division that stood in Europe from 1952 to 1994.
2-я канадская авиационная дивизия
Owns all individual training and education in the RCAF, from the flying schools at Moose Jaw and Portage la Prairie to the technical trades schools at Borden and the aerospace control school. Stood up on 25 June 2009.
3 Canadian Space Division
Stood up in July 2022 from the former Director General Space, and the reason the RCAF now describes itself as an air and space force. It runs 7 Wing (Space) with 7 Space Operations Squadron and 7 Operations Support Squadron, and Canada’s contribution to allied space surveillance and satellite communications.
RCAF Aerospace Warfare Centre
Doctrine, concept development, operational test and evaluation, and the custody of RCAF history and heritage. It owns 414 Electronic Warfare Support Squadron and 434 Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron, whose flights sit at the base of each fleet — fighter at Cold Lake, maritime helicopter at Shearwater, long range patrol at Greenwood, land aviation at Saint-Hubert, search and rescue at Comox.
3 Wing Bagotville and 4 Wing Cold Lake
The two fighter wings, holding Canada’s NORAD alert commitment east and west with about 85 CF-188 Hornets between five squadrons, one of them the operational training squadron. Both are being rebuilt for the F-35A, and the construction at both has run late.
8-я эскадрилья Трентон
Strategic and tactical airlift, air-to-air refuelling and government transport: the CC-177 Globemaster III, the CC-130J Hercules, the CC-150 Polaris and its CC-330 Husky replacement, the CC-144 Challenger at Ottawa and the CC-138 Twin Otter at Yellowknife. Also the RCAF Aerospace Warfare Centre and CFS Alert.
12 Wing Shearwater, 14 Wing Greenwood, 19 Wing Comox
Everything that flies over salt water: the CH-148 Cyclones of 12 Wing, which deploy aboard Royal Canadian Navy frigates from Shearwater and Victoria, and the CP-140 Auroras of 14 and 19 Wings, which will be replaced by the P-8A Poseidon from 2030.
1 Wing Kingston
Seven tactical aviation squadrons that work for the Canadian Army, lodged on army garrisons from Edmonton to Gagetown, commanded from a headquarters at Kingston that has no aircraft of its own. Six fly the CH-146 Griffon; 450 Squadron at Petawawa flies Canada’s fourteen CH-147F Chinooks.
9 Wing Gander and the SAR squadrons
Canada holds the aeronautical search and rescue mandate for about 18 million square kilometres, run from three coordination centres at Victoria, Trenton and Halifax. The aircraft are CH-149 Cormorants, CC-295 Kingfishers and CH-146 Griffons at Gander, Greenwood, Trenton, Winnipeg and Comox, supported by the volunteer Civil Air Search and Rescue Association.
22 Wing North Bay
The Canadian NORAD Region’s Sector Air Operations Centre, with 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron, its operational training squadron and a United States Air Force detachment. No aircraft are based here; what North Bay owns is the radar picture, drawn from the North Warning System across the Arctic.
2 Wing Bagotville
The RCAF’s deployable wing headquarters, formed in 2012 to stand up and command expeditionary air bases abroad, with mission support, air expeditionary training and construction engineering squadrons dispersed across Bagotville, Cold Lake, Trenton and Nova Scotia.
15 Wing Moose Jaw and 3 CFFTS Southport
Every Canadian military pilot passes through Moose Jaw and Portage la Prairie. The Future Aircrew Training programme, run by SkyAlyne to 2049, is replacing every training aircraft in the system. What Canada no longer does at home is fighter lead-in training, which went abroad when the CT-155 Hawk retired in 2024.
16 Wing Borden
The RCAF Academy and the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology and Engineering, on the field where Canadian military flying training began in 1917. It also hosts 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, an Air Reserve unit.
What the Royal Canadian Air Force flies today
Все виды, находящиеся под прицелом, имеют ссылку на соответствующую страницу в Книге Зверей, если таковая имеется. В статистике учитываются самолеты, находящиеся в резерве, а не самолеты, доступные в конкретный день.
| Тип | Роль | В эксплуатации | С | Единицы | Примечания | |
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| McDonnell Douglas CF-188A/B HornetВ эксплуатации | Multirole fighter; NORAD alert | 85 | 1982 | 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, 433 Tactical Fighter Squadron, 401 Tactical Fighter Squadron, 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron, 410 Tactical Fighter Operational Training Squadron, Fighter Operational Test and Evaluation Flight | About 85 airframes on charge in 2025, the most recent departmental figure; the number is falling.
БолееCanada took 138 CF-188s from 1982 to 1988, 98 single-seat CF-188A and 40 two-seat CF-188B, and at least twenty were lost in accidents with at least eleven pilots killed by 2016. Eighteen second-hand Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A/B aircraft were added from February 2019, with seven further airframes bought for spares recovery; deliveries finished in 2021 and the whole interim package cost about C$360 million. Hornet Extension Project Phase 1 covers up to 88 aircraft and Phase 2 a combat-capable subset of 36. |
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| Bell CH-146 GriffonВ эксплуатации | Tactical transport helicopter; combat support; SAR | 85 | 1995 | 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron, 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 430e Escadron tactique d’hélicoptères, 438 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, 439 Domestic Response Squadron, 417 Domestic Response Squadron, 444 Domestic Response Squadron, 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron, Land Aviation Test and Evaluation Flight | 85 in service in 2024 out of 100 delivered from 1995.
БолееBell Textron Canada at Mirabel is carrying out the Griffon Limited Life Extension, which re-engines and re-avionicses the fleet to take it to about 2031. |
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| Boeing CH-147F ChinookВ эксплуатации | Medium-to-heavy lift helicopter | 14 | 2013 | 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, Land Aviation Test and Evaluation Flight | 14 in service of 15 delivered from 2013; one was destroyed in a crash on the Ottawa River near Petawawa on 20 June 2023 in which two aircrew died. | |
| Sikorsky CH-148 CycloneВ эксплуатации | Shipborne anti-submarine and utility helicopter | 27 | 2015 | 406 Maritime Operational Training Squadron, 423 Maritime Helicopter Squadron, 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron, Maritime Helicopter Test and Evaluation Flight | 27 in service of 28 delivered from 2015. Cyclone 148822 was lost in the Ionian Sea on 29 April 2020 with all six on board. | |
| AgustaWestland CH-149 CormorantВ эксплуатации | Long-range search and rescue helicopter | 13 | 2001 | 103 Search and Rescue Squadron, 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron, 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron, Search and Rescue Operational Test and Evaluation Flight | 13 in service of 15 delivered from 2001; one was destroyed in a crash off Canso, Nova Scotia on 13 July 2006 with three deaths, and another written off.
БолееThe Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade is rebuilding the 13 aircraft and adding three more from airframes recovered from the cancelled United States VH-71 presidential helicopter programme, for a final fleet of 16. |
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| Lockheed CP-140 AuroraOut by 2030 | Long-range maritime patrol, ISR and anti-submarine warfare | 14 | 1980 | 404 Long Range Patrol and Training Squadron, 405 Long Range Patrol Squadron, 415 Long Range Patrol Force Development Squadron, 407 Long Range Patrol Squadron, Long Range Patrol Operational Test and Evaluation Flight | 14 on charge of 18 delivered from 1980, of which the department has described a modernised core of about 10 to 14 aircraft as operationally capable at any time. Out of service 2030. | |
| Lockheed Martin CC-130J HerculesВ эксплуатации | Tactical airlift and search and rescue | 17 | 2010 | 436 Transport Squadron, 426 Transport Training Squadron, 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron | 17 delivered between 2010 and 2012, all still on charge. | |
| Lockheed CC-130H HerculesВ эксплуатации | Search and rescue; air-to-air refuelling | 4 | 1960 | 435-я транспортно-спасательная эскадрилья | About four airframes were still flying in the autumn of 2026 on a residual search and rescue commitment with 435 Squadron at Winnipeg.
БолееAir-to-air refuelling ended in May 2026; twelve airframes were declared retired in January 2026 and ten of them conditionally sold to Coulson Aviation of Port Alberni on 7 August 2026 for aerial firefighting, the other two going to museums. Forty-four Hercules of all marks were taken on charge from 1960. |
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| Boeing CC-177 Globemaster IIIВ эксплуатации | Стратегическая воздушная перевозка | 5 | 2007 | 429 Transport Squadron | Five delivered: four in 2007–08 and a fifth in March 2015. | |
| Airbus CC-150 PolarisВ эксплуатации | Strategic transport, air-to-air refuelling and VIP transport | 3 | 1992 | 437 Transport Squadron, 426 Transport Training Squadron | Three of five remain on charge in 2026. The five Airbus A310-300s were bought second-hand from Wardair in 1992.
БолееCC-150T 15003 was written off after ground damage at Guam in 2019 and formally retired in 2023; 15001 was retired in 2025 and is now at the National Air Force Museum of Canada at Trenton. Two aircraft were converted to CC-150T tankers with wing pods. |
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| Airbus CC-330 HuskyВ эксплуатации | Strategic transport, air-to-air refuelling and VIP transport | 5 | 2023 | 437 Transport Squadron | Nine aircraft contracted: five used Airbus A330-200s bought on the commercial market and four new-build.
БолееAll five used aircraft have been accepted, the fifth in February 2025; no new-build has yet been delivered. The first new-build, Husky 006, went to Getafe in June 2025 for conversion and first flew as a multi-role tanker transport on 2 July 2026, for delivery in 2027. None has yet been converted to tanker configuration; the first converted CC-330 is due in 2027. |
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| Airbus CC-295 KingfisherВ эксплуатации | Fixed-wing search and rescue | 16 | 2020 | 418 Search and Rescue Operational Training Squadron, 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron, 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron, 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron, 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron | 16 aircraft contracted on 1 December 2016 for about C$2.4 billion including twenty years of support.
БолееAll 16 have been built and accepted; deliveries to Canada ran from 17 September 2020 into 2025 and the department’s count of aircraft physically in Canada has lagged the acceptance figure. The type entered operational service on 1 May 2025 and is distributed across four wings — Comox, Winnipeg, Trenton and Greenwood. |
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| de Havilland Canada CC-138 Twin OtterВ эксплуатации | Arctic utility transport | 4 | 1971 | 440 Transport Squadron | Four in service of nine taken on charge from 1971. | |
| Bombardier CC-144C/D ChallengerВ эксплуатации | Government and command transport | 4 | 1983 | 412 Transport Squadron | Four in service of 18 Challengers taken on charge since 1983 in several marks, including aircraft used for coastal patrol and electronic warfare training. | |
| Beechcraft CE-145C VigilanceВ эксплуатации | Manned airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance | 3 | 2024 | RCAF Aerospace Warfare Centre | Three King Air 350ER airframes, modified by L3Harris, all delivered in 2024. | |
| Canadair CT-114 TutorOut by 2026 | Выступление пилотажных групп | 11 | 1963 | 431 Air Demonstration Squadron — the Snowbirds | 11 with 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, nine of which fly the show, out of 190 delivered from 1963. | |
| de Havilland Canada CT-142 Dash 8 "Gonzo"В эксплуатации | Air combat systems officer and airborne electronic sensor operator training | 4 | 1989 | 402-я эскадрилья | Four in service of six taken on charge from 1989. | |
| Beechcraft CT-145 King AirВ эксплуатации | Multi-engine pilot training | 7 | 1992 | 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School | Seven King Air C90B in service of eight taken on charge from 1992, operated through the Contracted Flying Training Programme at Southport. | |
| Beechcraft CT-156 Harvard IIВ эксплуатации | Базовая и продвинутая летная подготовка | 24 | 2000 | 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School | About 24 of 26 taken on charge from 2000, formally owned by Milit-Air, a not-for-profit federal corporation set up to hold the NATO Flying Training in Canada fleet, and leased to CAE. | |
| Grob CT-102A Astra and CT-102B Astra IIВ эксплуатации | Primary and basic flying training | 13 | 2013 | 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School | 13 Grob G120A on charge as the CT-102A, plus 23 Grob G120TP ordered as the CT-102B Astra II under Future Aircrew Training. | |
| Airbus CT-153 JunoВ эксплуатации | Rotary-wing pilot training | 1 | 2026 | 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School | 19 Airbus H135 helicopters ordered under Future Aircrew Training; the first entered service in 2026. | |
| Pilatus CT-157 Siskin IIВ эксплуатации | Advanced fixed-wing and jet-stream flying training; future display aircraft | 2 | 2026 | 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School, 431 Air Demonstration Squadron — the Snowbirds | 19 Pilatus PC-21 aircraft ordered under Future Aircrew Training.
БолееThe first two arrived in Canada and were shown publicly at the Aero Gatineau-Ottawa air show on 17 September 2026 before flying on to 15 Wing Moose Jaw. |
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| Bell CH-139 Jet Ranger and CT-146 Bell 412CFВ эксплуатации | Contracted helicopter pilot training | 22 | 1981 | 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School | About 13 CH-139 Jet Rangers and nine Bell 412CF helicopters, drawn from Canadian Armed Forces stocks and operated by the Allied Wings consortium at Southport. | |
| Small uncrewed systems (CU-169 ScanEagle, CU-172, CU-176 Gargoyle)В эксплуатации | Tactical surveillance | — | 2008 | — | Quantities are not published.
БолееThe CU-169 ScanEagle has been in Canadian service since 2008; the CU-176 Gargoyle, a UMS Skeldar V-200 rotary-wing system, was introduced in 2020 and flies from Royal Canadian Navy ships. |
По заказу
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| Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning IIПо заказу | 16 | 2026 | Canada signed for 88 F-35As on 9 January 2023 at a stated acquisition cost of about C$19 billion, in a project the department now values at C$27.7 billion including equipment, sustainment, training and infrastructure, with a first squadron operational in 2029 and the fleet complete between 2032 and 2034.
БолееOn 14 March 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney ordered a review of the purchase in the middle of a trade and sovereignty dispute with the United States, and as of September 2026 that review has still not reported. Canada is contractually committed and paid up for the first sixteen aircraft. CBC News reported in February 2026 that Canada had begun paying for long-lead items tied to fourteen further aircraft, to hold its place in the production queue; the Department of National Defence would not confirm it and said the acquisition of additional F-35s remained under review. Deliveries of the first aircraft to Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, where Canadian pilots train, were due before the end of 2026; the first aircraft in Canada are expected in 2028. The remaining 72 of the 88 remain undecided. Defence Minister David McGuinty said in September 2026 that Ottawa "will take the time we need to get this right". The department has funded infrastructure for three squadrons at 4 Wing Cold Lake and two at 3 Wing Bagotville, and expects the fleet in service beyond 2060. |
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| Boeing P-8A ПосейдонПо заказу | 14 | 2027 | Announced on 30 November 2023: 14 aircraft with options for two more, at a project cost of about C$10.4 billion including a United States foreign military sale valued at up to US$5.9 billion.
БолееThe buy was sole-sourced, which Bombardier and General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada objected to loudly, having offered a Global 6500-based alternative that did not yet exist. The department’s project page now gives first delivery in 2027 and the last aircraft in 2027–28, with the fleet split between 14 Wing Greenwood and 19 Wing Comox; the 2023 announcement had promised the first aircraft in 2026. The CP-140 Aurora goes out of service in 2030. |
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| General Atomics CQ-9B SkyGuardian (MQ-9B SkyGuardian)По заказу | 11 | 2028 | Eleven armed long-range remotely piloted aircraft contracted on 18 December 2023 at a project value of C$2.49 billion, for surveillance, reconnaissance and precision strike, with the Arctic as the primary area of interest.
БолееInitial operational capability is set at 2027–2030 and full operational capability at 2030–2033; reporting in 2026 said the fleet will enter service in 2028 unarmed and with reduced capability. Canada designated the type CQ-9B SkyGuardian rather than following its own CU- convention for uncrewed aircraft, which is an oddity nobody has explained publicly. The department’s project page names no main operating base; reporting in 2026 places the operations centres at 14 Wing Greenwood and 19 Wing Comox with mission control in Ottawa. |
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| Saab GlobalEye (Bombardier Global 6500)По заказу | — | On 27 May 2026 Canada named Saab as preferred supplier for its Airborne Early Warning and Control project, choosing the GlobalEye mission system on a Bombardier Global 6500 airframe over the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail.
БолееReporting has put the programme at around C$5 billion for five or six aircraft, but no contract had been signed and no quantity or price confirmed at the date of this page. It would give Canada an airborne early warning capability of its own for the first time; Canadian crews have until now served with the NATO E-3A component at Geilenkirchen. |
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| Airbus CC-330 Husky (remaining aircraft and tanker conversions)По заказу | 3 | 2027 | Four of the nine CC-330s remain to be delivered, and none of the accepted aircraft has yet been converted to multi-role tanker transport standard.
БолееThe first converted CC-330 is due in 2027 and the first government transport aircraft in 2027–28, with initial capability in 2028–29 and full capability in 2032–33. The department is negotiating a Main Operating Base West at Edmonton International Airport, with a forward operating location at Inuvik. |
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| AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant (Mid-Life Upgrade and additional airframes)По заказу | 3 | 2027 | The Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade rebuilds the 13 in-service aircraft to a common modern standard and adds three further airframes, bringing the fleet to 16.
БолееContracts worth up to C$1.24 billion including taxes were awarded in December 2022 to Leonardo UK and to CAE of Montreal for the simulator solution. First delivery and initial operational capability 2027, final delivery 2029, full operational capability 2030. |
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| Pilatus CT-157 Siskin IIПо заказу | 19 | 2026 | Nineteen PC-21s for advanced flying training at 15 Wing Moose Jaw under the Future Aircrew Training programme, and from about 2030 for the Snowbirds.
БолееThe first aircraft left Switzerland in 2026. |
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| Grob CT-102B Astra IIПо заказу | 23 | 2026 | Twenty-three Grob G120TP turboprops for basic flying training under Future Aircrew Training, replacing the piston-engined G120A. | |
| Airbus CT-153 JunoПо заказу | 18 | 2026 | Nineteen Airbus H135 helicopters for rotary-wing training at Southport, of which one was in service in 2026. They replace the CH-139 Jet Ranger and the Bell 412CF. | |
| Beechcraft CT-145E Expeditor IIПо заказу | 7 | 2026 | Seven Beechcraft King Air 260 aircraft for multi-engine training under Future Aircrew Training, replacing the CT-145 King Air C90B. | |
| de Havilland Canada CT-142Q CitadelПо заказу | 3 | 2027 | Three converted Dash 8-400 aircraft for air combat systems officer and airborne electronic sensor operator training at 17 Wing Winnipeg, replacing the CT-142 "Gonzo". | |
| Bombardier Global 6500По заказу | 6 | Six aircraft announced in 2025 to replace the CC-144 Challenger fleet of 412 Transport Squadron, keeping the work with a Canadian manufacturer.
БолееThe same Global 6500 airframe underpins the Saab GlobalEye selected for the airborne early warning project. |
Every type the Royal Canadian Air Force has retired
77 types, from the Burgess-Dunne floatplane to the BAE Systems CT-155 Hawk. Максимальные показатели — это количество самолетов, принятых на вооружение за весь срок службы, а не численность парка на какую-либо конкретную дату.
| Тип | Роль | Пик | Подано | Заменено на | Примечания | |
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| BAE Systems CT-155 Hawk | Advanced and fighter lead-in training | 22 | 2000–2024 | — | 22 Hawk Mk 115 aircraft owned by Milit-Air and operated under NATO Flying Training in Canada; retired in 2024, with 15 airframes transferred to the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology and Engineering at Borden as maintenance trainers. | |
| de Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo | Search and rescue and tactical transport | 15 | 1967–2022 | CC-295 Kingfisher | 15 aircraft. The last six flew search and rescue on the Pacific coast from 19 Wing Comox until January 2022. | |
| Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King | Shipborne anti-submarine and utility helicopter | 41 | 1968–2018 | CH-148 Cyclone | 41 aircraft, delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy from 1963 as the CHSS-2 and passed to the unified Canadian Forces in 1968. | |
| Lockheed CP-140A Arcturus | Arctic and coastal patrol, crew training | 3 | 1992–2011 | — | Three airframes, P-3 airframes without the Aurora’s anti-submarine mission system. | |
| Boeing CH-147C and CH-147D Chinook | Medium-lift helicopter | 15 | 1974–2011 | — | Eight CH-147C from 1974, sold to the Netherlands in 1991; six CH-147D plus one leased aircraft bought urgently in 2008 for Afghanistan and disposed of in 2011. | |
| Mil Mi-8 and Mi-17-V5 | Contracted transport helicopter, Afghanistan | 10 | 2008–2011 | — | Six Mi-8 and four Mi-17-V5, used in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2011 and never formally acknowledged with enthusiasm. | |
| IAI CU-170 Heron | Medium-altitude long-endurance surveillance | 3 | 2008–2011 | — | Three leased air vehicles, flown in Kandahar from 2008 and returned at the end of the Afghanistan combat mission. | |
| SAGEM CU-161 Sperwer | Tactical surveillance uncrewed aircraft | 31 | 2003–2010 | — | 31 air vehicles, bought urgently in 2003 for Kabul and used in Kandahar until 2009. | |
| Slingsby CT-111 Firefly | Primary flying training | 12 | 1995–2006 | — | 12 leased aircraft. | |
| Canadair CT-133 Silver Star | Advanced trainer, electronic warfare and utility | 656 | 1953–2005 | — | 656 built by Canadair with the Rolls-Royce Nene engine in place of the American T-33’s Allison. | |
| Boeing Vertol CH-113 Labrador and CH-113A Voyageur | Search and rescue and medium transport helicopter | 18 | 1963–2004 | CH-149 Cormorant | Six CH-113 Labrador for the RCAF and twelve CH-113A Voyageur for the army, later converted to a common SAR standard. | |
| Bell CH-135 Twin Huey | Tactical transport helicopter | 50 | 1971–1999 | CH-146 Griffon | 50 aircraft, the Bell 212 built at Mirabel. | |
| Boeing CC-137 Husky | Strategic transport and air-to-air refuelling | 5 | 1970–1997 | CC-150 Polaris | Five Boeing 707-347C aircraft; two were fitted with wing refuelling pods in 1972 for the fighter force. | |
| Bell CH-118 Iroquois | Utility transport helicopter | 10 | 1968–1997 | CH-146 Griffon | Ten aircraft, the Canadian UH-1H. | |
| Bell CH-136 Kiowa | Легкий вертолет наблюдения | 74 | 1971–1997 | CH-146 Griffon | 74 aircraft built by Bell at Mirabel. | |
| Canadair CF-116 Freedom Fighter (CF-5) | Light attack, tactical reconnaissance and fighter lead-in training | 135 | 1968–1995 | CF-188 Hornet | 135 built by Canadair at Cartierville, comprising 89 CF-5A and 46 CF-5D; 105 Canadair-built aircraft went to the Netherlands as the NF-5. | |
| Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan | Passenger and utility transport | 13 | 1960–1994 | — | 13 aircraft, a Convair 440 re-engined with Napier Eland and later Allison turboprops. | |
| Beechcraft CT-134 Musketeer | Primary flying training | 48 | 1970–1992 | — | 48 aircraft. | |
| de Havilland Canada CP-121 Tracker (CS2F) | Carrier-borne and shore-based anti-submarine warfare, later coastal patrol | 99 | 1968–1990 | — | 99 CS2F aircraft built under licence by de Havilland Canada for the Royal Canadian Navy, of which 73 passed to the unified Canadian Forces in 1968 as the CP-121. | |
| Dassault CC-117 Falcon 20 | Executive transport and electronic warfare training | 8 | 1967–1989 | — | Eight aircraft. | |
| Douglas CC-129 Dakota | Транспорт | 169 | 1943–1988 | — | 169 aircraft over 45 years of Canadian service. | |
| McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo | Nuclear-armed all-weather interceptor | 132 | 1961–1987 | CF-188 Hornet | 132 airframes passed through Canadian hands in two batches: 66 from 1961 and a second batch of 66 exchanged for newer aircraft in 1970–71. | |
| Canadair CF-104 Starfighter | Nuclear strike, conventional attack and tactical reconnaissance | 239 | 1962–1986 | CF-188 Hornet | 200 CF-104 built by Canadair under licence plus 39 CF-104D two-seaters built by Lockheed, and a small number of ex-Luftwaffe airframes taken later. | |
| de Havilland Canada CSR-123 Otter | Utility transport and search and rescue | 69 | 1953–1984 | — | 69 aircraft. | |
| Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck | All-weather interceptor; electronic warfare training | 692 | 1951–1981 | CF-101 Voodoo | 692 built, the only Canadian-designed fighter ever to enter mass production and the only one to serve in quantity. | |
| Canadair CP-107 Argus | Long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare | 33 | 1957–1981 | CP-140 Aurora | 33 built at Cartierville on a modified Bristol Britannia airframe with piston engines. | |
| Canadair Sabre (CL-13 Mk 2 to Mk 6) | Дневной боец | 1,184 | 1950–1977 | CF-104 Starfighter | 1,184 taken on charge by the RCAF out of 1,815 built by Canadair at Cartierville; the balance went to the RAF, West Germany, South Africa and others.
БолееThe Mk 6 with the Orenda 14 engine was the best-performing Sabre built anywhere. |
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| Canadair CL-84 Dynavert | Experimental tilt-wing VTOL | 3 | 1969–1975 | — | Three aircraft, designated CX-131. | |
| Piasecki CH-125 H-21 and Vertol CH-127 | Search and rescue and transport helicopter | 20 | 1954–1973 | — | 15 CH-125 and five CH-127. | |
| Hiller CH-112 Nomad | Легкий вертолет наблюдения | 27 | 1961–1973 | — | 27 aircraft. | |
| Boeing CIM-108 Bomarc | Nuclear-armed long-range surface-to-air missile | 56 | 1961–1972 | — | 56 CIM-10B missiles at two sites, 28 at each. 446 Surface-to-Air Missile Squadron at North Bay from 28 December 1961 and 447 Surface-to-Air Missile Squadron at La Macaza, Quebec. | |
| de Havilland Canada CT-120 Chipmunk | Начальная летная подготовка | 100 | 1948–1972 | — | 100 aircraft, the first original design built by de Havilland Canada after the war. | |
| Beechcraft CT-128 Expeditor | Multi-engine training and light transport | 398 | 1941–1972 | — | 398 aircraft. | |
| Canadair CC-106 Yukon | Strategic transport | 12 | 1960–1971 | — | 12 aircraft, a Bristol Britannia airframe with Rolls-Royce Tyne engines. | |
| de Havilland Canada CC-108 Caribou | Тактический транспорт | 9 | 1960–1971 | — | Nine aircraft, used largely on United Nations service. | |
| Grumman CSR-110 Albatross | Поисково-спасательная операция на земноводных | 10 | 1960–1971 | — | 10 aircraft. | |
| Lockheed CP-122 Neptune | Морской патруль | 25 | 1955–1970 | CP-107 Argus | 25 P2V-7 aircraft. | |
| Североамериканский Гарвард | Advanced flying training | 2,156 | 1939–1968 | — | 2,156 aircraft over three decades, many built by Noorduyn at Montreal and later by Canadian Car and Foundry. | |
| Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar | Тактический транспорт | 35 | 1952–1967 | — | 35 aircraft. | |
| Bristol Freighter | Транспорт | 6 | 1952–1967 | — | Six aircraft, used in Europe by 137 Transport Flight. | |
| Canadair C-54GM North Star | Strategic transport | 24 | 1947–1966 | — | 24 aircraft, a Douglas DC-4 airframe re-engined with Rolls-Royce Merlins. | |
| Avro Lancaster Mk.X | Heavy bomber, later maritime patrol and photographic survey | 229 | 1944–1965 | — | 229 aircraft, including 430 Mk.X bombers built by Victory Aircraft at Malton of which the RCAF retained a proportion; post-war Lancasters were rebuilt for maritime and survey work. | |
| de Havilland Comet 1A | Jet transport | 2 | 1953–1965 | — | Two aircraft. | |
| North American Mitchell | Medium bomber, later training and transport | 164 | 1942–1963 | — | 164 aircraft; 98 Squadron and 180 Squadron trained Canadians on the type and it served post-war as a crew trainer into 1963. | |
| Consolidated Canso and Catalina | Морское патрулирование и противолодочная борьба | 254 | 1941–1962 | — | 254 aircraft, most built in Canada by Canadian Vickers at Cartierville and Boeing of Canada at Vancouver. | |
| North American Mustang Mk.IV | Fighter, auxiliary squadrons | 130 | 1947–1961 | — | 130 P-51D aircraft acquired after the war. | |
| Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow | Supersonic all-weather interceptor (cancelled) | 5 | 1958–1959 | CF-101 Voodoo and Bomarc | Five Mk 1 airframes flew, RL-201 to RL-205. The first Mk 2, RL-206, with Orenda Iroquois engines, was ready for taxi trials when the programme was cancelled and never flew. | |
| de Havilland Vampire F.3 | Дневной боец | 86 | 1946–1958 | Канадэр Сабле | 86 aircraft, the first Canadian jet fighters. | |
| Noorduyn Norseman | Utility transport | 100 | 1940–1957 | — | 100 aircraft of a Canadian bush design that could take wheels, skis or floats. | |
| Avro Anson | Multi-engine and navigation training | 4,413 | 1940–1954 | — | 4,413 aircraft, the largest single type the RCAF has ever owned. Many were built in Canada by Federal Aircraft with Canadian engines and plywood fuselages when British supply ran short. | |
| de Havilland Mosquito | Night fighter, intruder, bomber and photographic reconnaissance | 444 | 1943–1951 | — | 444 aircraft, many built by de Havilland Canada at Downsview. | |
| Supermarine Spitfire | Fighter and photographic reconnaissance | 8 | 1940–1950 | — | Only eight Spitfires were ever on Canadian charge. The RCAF squadrons that flew Spitfires overseas flew Royal Air Force aircraft. | |
| Cessna Crane | Multi-engine training | 826 | 1941–1949 | — | 826 aircraft. | |
| Hawker Hurricane | Боец | 502 | 1939–1948 | — | 502 aircraft, of which 451 were built in Canada by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company at Fort William. | |
| Lockheed Hudson | Maritime patrol and bomber reconnaissance | 247 | 1939–1948 | — | 247 aircraft. | |
| de Havilland DH.82C Tiger Moth | Начальная летная подготовка | 1,410 | 1938–1948 | — | 1,410 aircraft, the Canadian DH.82C with a cockpit canopy, wheel brakes, a tail wheel and skis for winter flying. | |
| Fairchild Cornell | Начальная летная подготовка | 1,555 | 1942–1948 | — | 1,555 aircraft, most built by Fleet Aircraft at Fort Erie. | |
| Consolidated Liberator | Very-long-range maritime patrol and transport | 148 | 1943–1948 | — | 148 aircraft. | |
| Handley Page Halifax | Тяжелый бомбардировщик | 5 | 1944–1947 | — | Five aircraft taken on Canadian charge; the great majority of RCAF Halifaxes overseas were RAF aircraft on Canadian squadrons. | |
| Lockheed Ventura | Maritime patrol and training | 286 | 1942–1947 | — | 286 aircraft. | |
| Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke | Coastal patrol bomber and gunnery trainer | 626 | 1939–1947 | — | 626 aircraft, the Canadian-built version of the Bristol Blenheim, made by Fairchild at Longueuil. | |
| Airspeed Oxford | Multi-engine and navigation training | 819 | 1939–1947 | — | 819 aircraft. | |
| Fleet Finch and Fleet Fawn | Начальная летная подготовка | 482 | 1931–1947 | — | 431 Finch and 51 Fawn, built by Fleet Aircraft at Fort Erie. | |
| Curtiss Kittyhawk and Tomahawk | Fighter and home defence | 147 | 1941–1946 | — | 134 Kittyhawks, four Tomahawks and nine Warhawks. | |
| Fairey Battle | Bomber and training | 740 | 1939–1946 | — | 740 aircraft, almost all used as target tugs, gunnery trainers and bombing trainers in Canada. | |
| Westland Lysander | Army co-operation, target towing and coastal patrol | 329 | 1939–1946 | — | 329 aircraft, 225 of them built under licence by National Steel Car at Malton. | |
| Douglas Digby | Maritime patrol bomber | 20 | 1939–1946 | — | 20 aircraft, the Canadian name for the Douglas B-18A Bolo. | |
| Supermarine Stranraer | Морской патрульный гидросамолет | 40 | 1938–1946 | — | 40 aircraft, built under licence by Canadian Vickers. | |
| Northrop Delta | Photographic survey and coastal patrol | 20 | 1936–1945 | — | 20 aircraft, built by Canadian Vickers — the first all-metal aircraft built in Canada. | |
| Handley Page Hampden | Torpedo bomber and patrol | 96 | 1941–1944 | — | 96 aircraft, mostly used on the Pacific coast and for torpedo training. | |
| Blackburn Shark | Torpedo bomber and coastal patrol | 26 | 1936–1944 | — | 26 aircraft, built under licence by Boeing of Canada at Vancouver. | |
| Westland Wapiti and Armstrong Whitworth Atlas | Army co-operation and general purpose | 41 | 1927–1944 | — | 25 Wapiti and 16 Atlas. | |
| Canadian Vickers Vedette | Forestry patrol and photographic survey flying boat | 44 | 1925–1941 | — | 44 aircraft. | |
| Armstrong Whitworth Siskin | Fighter and display | 12 | 1926–1939 | — | 12 aircraft, the RCAF’s first true fighter. | |
| Sopwith Snipe, Sopwith Camel and Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a | Fighter and training | 25 | 1919–1929 | — | Three Snipes, ten Camels and twelve S.E.5a, part of the Imperial Gift of 1919 that also included captured Fokker D.VIIs. | |
| Curtiss HS-2L and Felixstowe F.3 | Forestry and coastal patrol flying boat | 41 | 1920–1928 | — | 30 HS-2L and 11 Felixstowe F.3, part of the Imperial Gift of surplus British aircraft that equipped the first Canadian Air Force. | |
| Burgess-Dunne floatplane | Reconnaissance | 1 | 1914–1914 | — | One aircraft, Canada’s first military aeroplane, bought for the Canadian Aviation Corps in September 1914. |
Where the RCAF flies from
Black pins are active bases, hollow pins the stations that have closed. The hollow pins reach into Germany, France and England, because from 1951 to 1994 Canada kept four fighter wings in Europe — and into the High Arctic, because the northern network is the part of the map that is being rebuilt.
Канада
11 of the 62 bases above sit outside Canada, so the world map has to pull back until the home airfields cannot be told apart. The same pins again, without the overseas bases.
| База | ИКАО | Статус | Взлетная полоса | Подразделения и самолеты |
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| 1 Wing KingstonOntario | CYGK | Активный | 01/191,829 m07/251,199 m |
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| 12 Wing ShearwaterNova Scotia | CYAW | Активный | 16H/34H1,067 masphalt (helicopter operations)16/342,743 mасфальт (закрытый)10/281,735 mасфальт (закрытый) |
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| 14-я эскадрилья ГринвудNova Scotia | CYZX | Активный | 08/262,438 mgrooved asphalt12/302,438 m |
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| 15-крылая лосиная челюстьSaskatchewan | CYMJ | Активный | 11L/29R2,536 m11R/29L2,219 m03/211,054 m |
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| 16 Wing BordenOntario | CYBN | Активный | — |
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| 17-я эскадрилья ВиннипегМанитоба | CYWG | Активный | 18/363353 м13/312695 м07/251,372 mасфальт (закрытый) |
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| 19-я эскадрилья КомоксBritish Columbia | CYQQ | Активный | 12/303048 мконкретный18/361,523 m |
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| 22 Wing North BayOntario | CYYB | Активный | 08/263048 м18/361,364 m |
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| 2nd Canadian Division Support Base ValcartierQuébec | CYOY | Активный | — |
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| 3-е крыло БаготвильQuébec | CYBG | Активный | 11/293048 масфальт и бетон18/361,838 m |
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| 3rd Canadian Division Support Base EdmontonCFB NamaoAlberta | CYED | Активный | — |
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| 4-е крыло, Колд-ЛейкAlberta | CYOD | Активный | 13L/31R3840 м13R/31L3048 м04/222,522 m |
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| 5-е крыло, Гус-БейNewfoundland and Labrador | CYYR | Активный | 08/263,367 m15/332,920 m |
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| 5th Canadian Division Support Base GagetownNew Brunswick | CYCX | Активный | — |
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| 8-я эскадрилья ТрентонOntario | CYTR | Активный | 06/243048 м |
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| 9 Wing GanderNewfoundland and Labrador | CYQX | Активный | 03/213,109 m13/312,713 m |
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| Canadian Forces Station AlertNunavut | CYLT | Активный | 05T/23T1,676 mгравий |
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| Forward Operating Location InuvikNorthwest Territories | CYEV | Активный | 06/241,829 m |
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| Forward Operating Location IqaluitNunavut | CYFB | Активный | 16/342,623 m |
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| Garrison PetawawaOntario | CYWA | Активный | 17H/35H497 mreinforced concrete (helicopter operations)17/351,158 mgrass (closed) |
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| Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International AirportRCAF Station UplandsOntario | CYOW | Активный | 14/323048 м07/252,438 m04/221,006 m |
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| Rankin InletArctic support hubNunavut | CYRT | Активный | 13T/31T1,829 m | — |
| Saint-HubertQuébec | CYHU | Активный | 06L/24R2,390 m06R/24L1,195 m10/28853 m |
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| Аэрокосмический центр Саутпорта, Портидж-ла-ПрериМанитоба | CYPG | Активный | 13R/31L2,134 m13L/31R954 m02/20928 m09/27814 m |
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| Victoria International AirportPatricia BayBritish Columbia | CYYJ | Активный | 09/272,134 m03/211,532 m14/321,524 m |
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| YellowknifeNorthwest Territories | CYZF | Активный | 16/342,286 m10/281,524 m |
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| RCAF Station DownsviewOntario | CYZD | Закрыто в 1996 году. | 15/332,135 masphalt (closed 2024) |
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| CFB Lahr3 WingБаден-Вюртемберг | EDTL | Закрыто в 1994 году. | 03/213000 м |
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| RCAF Station NamaoAlberta | Закрыто в 1994 году. | 12/304,267 mconcrete (removed) |
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| CFB Baden-Soellingen4 WingБаден-Вюртемберг | EDSB | Закрыто в 1993 году. | 03/212983 м |
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| CFB SummersidePrince Edward Island | CYSU | Закрыто в 1991 году. | 05/232,438 m12/301615 масфальт (закрытый)18/361,664 mасфальт (закрытый) |
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| CFS HolbergBritish Columbia | Закрыто в 1991 году. | — |
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| CFS Mont ApicaQuébec | Закрыто в 1990 году. | — |
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| CFB ChathamNew Brunswick | CYCH | Closed 1989 | 09/273050 м04/221,585 mасфальт (закрытый)15/331,680 mасфальт (закрытый) |
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| CFS SenneterreQuébec | CTK2 | Closed 1988 | 17/351,219 mнеасфальтированная дорога |
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| RCAF Station Puntzi MountainBritish Columbia | CYPU | Closed 1988 | 05/231,833 м |
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| RCAF Station La MacazaQuébec | CYFJ | Closed 1972 | 02/201,703 m |
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| RCAF Station ClintonOntario | Закрыто в 1971 году. | — |
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| RCAF Station DebertNova Scotia | CCQ3 | Закрыто в 1971 году. | 09/271,524 m16/341,524 m05/23914 m |
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| Авиабаза Королевских ВВС Канады ГимлиМанитоба | CYGM | Закрыто в 1971 году. | 15/332,073 m |
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| RCAF Air Weapons Unit DecimomannuСардиния | ЛЖАЛ | Закрыто в 1970 году. | 16L/34R2,985 m16R/34L2,765 m |
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| RCAF Station Mountain ViewOntario | CPZ3 | Закрыто в 1970 году. | 06R/24L1,524 m16/34914 m06L/24R1,463 mгравий |
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| RCAF Station Resolute BayNunavut | CYRB | Закрыто в 1970 году. | 17T/35T1,981 mгравий |
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| RCAF Station Val d’OrQuébec | CYVO | Закрыто в 1970 году. | 18/363048 м |
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| RCAF Station PictonOntario | Closed 1969 | Former runway1,100 masphalt (abandoned) |
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| RCAF Station Zweibrücken3 WingРейнланд-Пфальц | ЭДРЗ | Closed 1969 | 03/212,675 mконкретный |
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| RCAF Station WhitehorseYukon | CYXY | Closed 1968 | 14R/32L2,895 m14L/32R2,011 m |
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| RCAF Station CentraliaOntario | CYCE | Closed 1967 | 10/281,528 m16/341,341 m |
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| RCAF Station Marville1 WingGrand Est | Closed 1967 | Main runway2440 мconcrete (disused) |
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| RCAF Station Metz1 Air Division HeadquartersGrand Est | Closed 1967 | 01/192400 мasphalt (disused) |
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| RCAF Station PenholdAlberta | CYQF | Closed 1965 | 17/352,286 m12/301,051 m |
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| RCAF Station ChurchillМанитоба | CYYQ | Closed 1964 | 15/332,804 m07/251,219 mгравий |
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| RCAF Station Grostenquin2 WingGrand Est | Closed 1964 | Main runway2440 мconcrete (abandoned) |
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| RCAF Station Langar30 Air Materiel BaseEngland | Closed 1964 | Grass strip900 мтрава |
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| RCAF Station Lincoln ParkCurrie FieldAlberta | Closed 1964 | — |
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| RCAF Station ParentQuébec | CYPP | Closed 1964 | 06/24907 mгравий |
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| RCAF Station RockcliffeOntario | CYRO | Closed 1964 | 09/271,006 m |
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| RCAF Station Sea IslandBritish Columbia | CYVR | Closed 1964 | 08R/26L3,505 m08L/26R3,030 mконкретный |
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| RCAF Station TorbayNewfoundland and Labrador | CYYT | Closed 1964 | 10/282,591 m16/342,135 m |
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| MaltonAvro Canada and RCAF Station MaltonOntario | CYYZ | Закрыто в 1959 году. | 05/233,389 mасфальт и бетон15L/33R3,368 m |
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| RCAF Station North Luffenham1 WingEngland | Закрыто в 1955 году. | Main runway1830 мconcrete (disused) |
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| RCAF Station MonctonNew Brunswick | CYQM | Closed 1946 | 06/242,438 m11/291,829 m |
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Who is stationed where in the Royal Canadian Air Force
Авиационное подразделение по базам с указанием того, к какому крылу оно принадлежит. Canadian squadrons carry numbers in the 400 block, allocated to the Dominions under Article XV of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan agreement of 1939 so that Canadian units could serve inside the RAF command structure and stay Canadian. Several of today’s squadrons trace directly to those wartime units.
- 401 Tactical Fighter SquadronRam · Fighter squadron · regular
- CF-188 Hornet
- 409 Tactical Fighter SquadronNighthawk · Fighter squadron · regular
- CF-188 Hornet
- 410 Tactical Fighter Operational Training SquadronCougar · Fighter conversion squadron · regular
- CF-188 Hornet
- 417 Domestic Response SquadronDomestic response squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- Fighter Operational Test and Evaluation FlightTest and evaluation flight · regular
- CF-188 Hornet
- 42 Radar SquadronРадиолокационная эскадрилья · регулярная
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- 419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron1975–2024
- CT-155 Hawk, CF-116 Freedom Fighter
- 425 Tactical Fighter SquadronAlouette · Fighter squadron · regular
- CF-188 Hornet
- 433 Tactical Fighter SquadronPorcs-épics · Fighter squadron · regular
- CF-188 Hornet
- 439 Domestic Response SquadronDomestic response squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- 2 WingExpeditionary air wing · regular
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- 12 Radar SquadronРадиолокационная эскадрилья · регулярная
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- 429 Transport SquadronBison · Strategic airlift squadron · regular
- CC-177 Globemaster III
- 436 Transport SquadronElephant · Tactical airlift squadron · regular
- CC-130J Hercules
- 437 Transport SquadronHusky · Strategic transport and tanker squadron · regular
- CC-150 Polaris, CC-330 Husky
- 426 Transport Training SquadronThunderbird · Air mobility training squadron · regular
- CC-130H/J Hercules
- 424 Transport and Rescue SquadronTiger · Search and rescue squadron · regular
- CC-130J Hercules
- Canadian Forces Land Advanced Warfare CentreParachute school · regular
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- RCAF Aerospace Warfare CentreDoctrine, test and evaluation formation · regular
- CE-145C Vigilance
- 404 Long Range Patrol and Training SquadronBuffalo · Maritime patrol training squadron · regular
- CP-140 Aurora
- 405 Long Range Patrol SquadronEagle · Maritime patrol squadron · regular
- CP-140 Aurora
- 415 Long Range Patrol Force Development SquadronSwordfish · Force development squadron · regular
- CP-140 Aurora
- 413 Transport and Rescue SquadronTusker · Search and rescue squadron · regular
- CC-295 Kingfisher, CH-149 Cormorant
- Long Range Patrol Operational Test and Evaluation FlightTest and evaluation flight · regular
- CP-140 Aurora
- 442 Transport and Rescue SquadronCaribou · Search and rescue squadron · regular
- CH-149 Cormorant, CC-295 Kingfisher
- 407 Long Range Patrol SquadronDemon · Maritime patrol squadron · regular
- CP-140 Aurora
- 418 Search and Rescue Operational Training SquadronSAR training squadron · regular
- CC-295 Kingfisher
- Canadian Forces School of Search and RescueSAR training school · regular
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- Search and Rescue Operational Test and Evaluation FlightTest and evaluation flight · regular
- CH-149 Cormorant, CH-146 Griffon
- 444 Domestic Response SquadronCobra · Domestic response squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- Forward Operating Location Goose BayNORAD forward operating location · regular
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- 423 Maritime Helicopter SquadronEagle · Shipborne helicopter squadron · regular
- CH-148 Cyclone
- 406 Maritime Operational Training SquadronLynx · Helicopter conversion squadron · regular
- CH-148 Cyclone
- Maritime Helicopter Test and Evaluation FlightTest and evaluation flight · regular
- CH-148 Cyclone
- 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training SchoolFlying training school · regular
- CT-156 Harvard II, CT-157 Siskin II
- 431 Air Demonstration Squadron — the SnowbirdsSnowbirds · Air demonstration squadron · regular
- CT-114 Tutor
- 15 Air Traffic Control SquadronAir traffic control squadron · regular
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- 435-я транспортно-спасательная эскадрильяЧинте · Эскадрилья поисково-спасательных и танковых самолетов · регулярная
- CC-130H Геркулес
- 402-я эскадрильяГород Виннипег · Эскадрилья подготовки летного состава · регулярная
- КТ-142 Даш 8
- 1. Канадская авиационная дивизия и штаб-квартира Канадского региона NORAD.Оперативный штаб · регулярный
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- 2-я канадская авиационная дивизияФормирование тренировочной базы · регулярные тренировки
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- Канадская школа выживания и авиационной медицинской подготовкиУчебное заведение · регулярное обучение
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- 450 Tactical Helicopter SquadronMedium-lift helicopter squadron · regular
- CH-147F Chinook
- 427 Special Operations Aviation SquadronLion · Special operations aviation squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- 103 Search and Rescue SquadronSearch and rescue squadron · regular
- CH-149 Cormorant
- 1 Wing HeadquartersTactical aviation wing headquarters · regular
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- 400 Tactical Helicopter SquadronCity of Toronto · Tactical helicopter squadron · reserve
- CH-146 Griffon
- Royal Canadian Air Force AcademyOfficer and professional training · regular
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- Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Technology and EngineeringTechnical training school · regular
- CT-155 Hawk (instructional airframes)
- 21 Aerospace Control and Warning SquadronAir defence control squadron · regular
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- 51 Aerospace Control and Warning Operational Training SquadronAir defence training squadron · regular
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- Detachment 2, First Air Force (United States Air Force)United States Air Force detachment · usaf
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- 446 Surface-to-Air Missile Squadron1961–1972
- CIM-10B Bomarc
- 412 Transport SquadronFalcon · Government transport squadron · regular
- CC-144C/D Challenger
- CFB Ottawa South (RCAF Station Uplands)1938–1994
- CF-100 Canuck, CT-133 Silver Star, Avro CF-105 Arrow (test)
- 438 Tactical Helicopter SquadronWildcat · Tactical helicopter squadron · reserve
- CH-146 Griffon
- Land Aviation Test and Evaluation FlightTest and evaluation flight · regular
- CH-147F Chinook
- 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training SchoolFlying training school · regular
- CT-145 King Air, CH-139 Jet Ranger, Bell 412CF, CT-102 Astra, CT-153 Juno
- 440 Transport SquadronVampire · Arctic utility transport squadron · regular
- CC-138 Twin Otter
- Forward Operating Location YellowknifeNORAD forward operating location · regular
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- 408 Tactical Helicopter SquadronGoose · Tactical helicopter squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- CFB Edmonton (Namao)1955–1994
- CC-130 Hercules, CC-138 Twin Otter, CH-113 Labrador
- 403 Helicopter Operational Training SquadronWolf · Helicopter conversion squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- 430e Escadron tactique d’hélicoptèresSilver Falcon · Tactical helicopter squadron · regular
- CH-146 Griffon
- 443 Maritime Helicopter SquadronHornet · Shipborne helicopter squadron · regular
- CH-148 Cyclone
- RCAF Station Patricia Bay1939–1948
- Curtiss Kittyhawk, Bristol Bolingbroke, Consolidated Canso
- Canadian Forces Station AlertSignals intelligence station · regular
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- Forward Operating Location IqaluitNORAD forward operating location · regular
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- Forward Operating Location InuvikNORAD forward operating location · regular
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Royal Canadian Air Force milestones, 1914 to today
16 September: the Canadian Aviation Corps is authorised with two officers, one mechanic and one Burgess-Dunne floatplane. The aircraft is shipped to England, left outdoors on Salisbury Plain and never flies again; the corps is wound up in 1915. Canadians who want to fly instead join the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service, where by 1918 they make up roughly a quarter of the pilot strength.
18 February: a Canadian Air Force is authorised under the Air Board as a non-permanent, non-professional force, flying from Camp Borden, equipped largely from the Imperial Gift of surplus British aircraft. It trains no new pilots and spends most of its effort on forestry patrols, aerial survey and anti-smuggling flights.
1 April: the Canadian government gives effect to the royal title granted by King George V on 15 February 1923, and the Royal Canadian Air Force comes into being as a permanent component of Canada’s defence forces. Its work remains mostly civil. The "Big Cut" of 1932 nearly ends it.
17 December: the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan agreement is signed in Ottawa. Canada builds more than a hundred flying and ground schools and, by 1945, trains over 130,000 aircrew for the Commonwealth — the single largest Canadian contribution to the war and the reason Franklin Roosevelt called Canada the aerodrome of democracy.
August: No. 1 Squadron RCAF joins the Battle of Britain from Northolt on Hurricanes, the only Canadian squadron in the battle. The RCAF forms its Women’s Division in 1941, the first Canadian service to recruit women.
1 January: No. 6 Group, RCAF, is formed within RAF Bomber Command with Canadian squadrons in Yorkshire and Durham. The RCAF peaks at 215,000 personnel in January 1944 and ends the war the fourth largest Allied air force, with 48 squadrons overseas. About 13,000 are killed on operations or die as prisoners and roughly 4,000 more in training and accidents.
1 November: No. 1 Fighter Wing forms at North Luffenham in England, the first formation of what becomes No. 1 Air Division. The division headquarters opens in Paris on 1 October 1952 and moves to Metz in April 1953. Four wings and twelve squadrons follow at Marville, Grostenquin, Zweibrücken and Baden-Soellingen, flying Canadair Sabres and then CF-100 Canucks.
12 September: the North American Air Defense Command begins operating at Colorado Springs with a Canadian deputy commander; the two governments formalise the arrangement by exchange of notes on 12 May 1958. The Pinetree, Mid-Canada and DEW radar lines are built across the country, largely manned by the RCAF.
20 February: the government cancels the Avro CF-105 Arrow and the Orenda Iroquois engine. Black Friday puts 14,528 Avro employees and nearly 15,000 more in the supply chain out of work, and within two months cabinet orders every airframe, engine and drawing destroyed. Canada buys CF-101 Voodoos and Bomarc missiles instead.
4 February: Defence Minister Douglas Harkness resigns over the refusal to accept American nuclear warheads for the Bomarc and the Voodoo, and the Diefenbaker government falls within days. Lester Pearson accepts the warheads on 31 December 1963. The CF-104 Starfighter takes up the nuclear strike role in Europe the same year.
1 February: the Canadian Forces Reorganization Act merges the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army into a single unified service. The RCAF ceases to exist as a named service; its aircraft are dispersed among six functional commands and its people put into a green army uniform. It is the most consequential structural decision in Canadian military history and it is still argued about.
2 September: Air Command is formed and gathers Canada’s air assets back under one commander. It is the RCAF in all but name, minus the name. The Snowbirds, formed informally at Moose Jaw in 1971, become 431 Air Demonstration Squadron in 1978.
The first CF-188 Hornets arrive, replacing the CF-101 Voodoo, the CF-104 Starfighter and the CF-116 Freedom Fighter with a single type. 138 are delivered by 1988. In 1990–91, Canadian Hornets fly combat air patrols and strikes in the Gulf under Operation Friction — the first Canadian shots fired in anger since Korea.
31 July: 1 Canadian Air Division, CFB Baden-Soellingen and 4 Fighter Wing are disbanded and Canadian Forces Europe closes. Canada’s permanent military presence in Europe, begun in 1951, ends. CFB Summerside had closed in 1991 and CFB Chatham in 1989; the domestic base network shrinks through the decade.
Canadian Hornets fly Operation Echo from Aviano, contributing about ten per cent of NATO’s strike sorties in the Kosovo air campaign from a country supplying a far smaller share of the alliance’s aircraft. Canada goes on to fly transport, helicopter and uncrewed operations in Afghanistan from 2001, including a purpose-built air wing at Kandahar from 2009 to 2011.
16 August: Air Command is renamed the Royal Canadian Air Force, restoring a name abolished 43 years earlier. In the same year seven CF-188s fly Operation Mobile over Libya, and a Canadian general, Charles Bouchard, commands the whole NATO operation.
The Auditor General reports that the CF-188 fleet cannot meet the readiness commitment the government has set for it. Canada buys 18 second-hand Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18A/B aircraft, plus seven more for spares, after abandoning an interim Super Hornet purchase in a trade dispute with Boeing. The Sea King retires in December after fifty years.
20 June: Canada announces a C$38.6 billion, twenty-year NORAD modernisation package — Arctic and polar over-the-horizon radars, space-based surveillance, new air-to-air missiles, upgrades to the four northern forward operating locations and additional tanker aircraft. On 28 March the government had announced the F-35A as the winner of the fighter competition. 3 Canadian Space Division stands up in July.
9 January: Canada signs for 88 F-35A Lightning IIs at an acquisition cost of about C$19 billion. On 30 November it announces 14 P-8A Poseidons, with options for two more, to replace the CP-140 Aurora from 2030. The Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade and the Future Aircrew Training programme are both under contract by the end of the year.
14 March: Prime Minister Mark Carney orders a review of the F-35 purchase during a trade and sovereignty dispute with the United States. Canada remains committed to sixteen aircraft; the other seventy-two are undecided eighteen months later. On 10 July, Lieutenant-General Jamie Speiser-Blanchet becomes the 22nd Commander of the RCAF and the first woman in the post.
The last CC-130H Hercules leave service, the Snowbirds fly their final CT-114 Tutor season, Saab’s GlobalEye is chosen for airborne early warning, and the first Canadian F-35As are due at Luke Air Force Base. The fighter review still has not reported.
Royal Canadian Air Force news from Afterburner
Everything MiGFlug’s magazine has published on the Royal Canadian Air Force and the aircraft it flies. Этот список обновляется автоматически — новые статьи Afterburner появляются здесь автоматически.
Everything people ask about the Royal Canadian Air Force
Какие самолеты используются Королевскими военно-воздушными силами Канады?
Есть ли у Канады отдельные военно-морские воздушные силы или армейская авиация?
Was the RCAF abolished? What happened in 1968?
What happened to the Avro Arrow, and are any of the myths true?
Is Canada actually buying the F-35?
How many CF-18s does Canada have left?
What does the RCAF do for NORAD?
Why is the Canadian search and rescue job so hard?
Does the RCAF have nuclear weapons?
Where do Canadian military pilots learn to fly?
Who are the Snowbirds and why are they stopping?
How big was the RCAF at its peak?
Read the aircraft the Royal Canadian Air Force flew
Каждый тип корабля, имеющий свою страницу в Книге Зверей, сначала поступивший на вооружение, а затем — по году вывода из состава флота.
Все факты проверены.
- Королевские военно-воздушные силы Канадыthe service’s own site; entry point for aircraft, structure, mandate and search and rescue
- Royal Canadian Air Force: Aircraftthe official list of RCAF aircraft types and designations, including the new Future Aircrew Training fleets
- Royal Canadian Air Force: CF-188 Hornetofficial Hornet page: roles, bases, specifications
- Royal Canadian Air Force: Who we aremandate, role and self-description of the service
- Королевские военно-воздушные силы Канады: организационная структурадивизии, крылья и эскадрильи в соответствии с перечнем, указанным в документах службы.
- 1 Canadian Air Divisionthe operational division and Canadian NORAD Region
- 2-я канадская авиационная дивизияthe training division
- 3 Canadian Space Divisionthe space division, stood up in 2022
- 1 Wing Kingstontactical helicopter wing headquarters and its six squadrons
- 2 Wing Bagotvillethe expeditionary wing
- 3-е крыло Баготвильfighter wing, squadrons and NORAD alert
- 4-е крыло, Колд-Лейкfighter wing, squadrons, air weapons range
- 5-е крыло, Гус-Бейforward operating location and 444 Squadron
- 8-я эскадрилья Трентонair mobility squadrons and lodger units
- 9 Wing Gander103 Search and Rescue Squadron
- 12 Wing Shearwatermaritime helicopter squadrons
- 14-я эскадрилья Гринвудlong range patrol and Atlantic SAR squadrons
- 19-я эскадрилья КомоксPacific SAR and 407 Squadron
- 22 Wing North Baythe air defence sector and its squadrons
- 15-крылая лосиная челюстьflying training and the Snowbirds
- 16 Wing Bordentechnical training and the RCAF Academy
- 17-я эскадрилья Виннипег435-я и 402-я эскадрильи и штаб дивизии
- 7 Wing (Space)space operations squadrons
- Canadian Forces Snowbirds431 Air Demonstration Squadron, team history and aircraft
- Royal Canadian Air Force: Search and rescuethe SAR mandate, regions and aircraft
- Royal Canadian Air Force Strategythe service’s published strategy document
- NORAD modernization project timelinesproject-by-project funding and initial and full operational capability dates for the C$38.6 billion package
- NORAD authorities and operationsdepartmental briefing on the binational command and Canada’s contribution
- Canada purchasing up to 16 P-8A Poseidon Multi Mission Aircraft30 November 2023 announcement: 14 aircraft plus two options, C$10.4 billion, basing, CP-140 out-of-service date
- Cormorant helicopter upgradesCMLU contract value, fleet growth from 13 to 16, bases and timeline
- Strategic Tanker Transport Capability projectCC-330 Husky cost, quantities, conversion plan and delivery schedule; project status as at May 2026
- Government of Canada selects preferred supplier for Airborne Early Warning and Control27 May 2026: Saab GlobalEye on a Bombardier Global 6500 chosen over the Boeing E-7
- Canadian Armed Forces reach highest recruitment in 30 years7,310 Regular Force enrolments in 2025/26 against a target of 6,957; 2026/27 objective of 8,200
- RCAF embarks on Bridge FLIT as 419 Squadron begins hiatus8 March 2024 stand-down, the CT-155 Hawk’s end and the interim training arrangements in Texas, Finland and Italy
- Backgrounder: Delay in Initial Operational Capability of the CC-295 Kingfisherthe department’s own account of why the Kingfisher slipped
- National Defence: Bases and support unitsofficial list of Canadian Armed Forces bases, wings and stations
- Directorate of History and Heritageofficial squadron lineages, battle honours and unit histories — the primary source for RCAF unit history
- Report of the Auditor General of Canada: Recruiting for Canada’s Militarytabled 21 October 2025: recruitment shortfall, one-in-thirteen enrolment rate, 245–271 day median processing time, security screening backlog
- Auditor General of Canada, Report 7, Recruiting for Canada’s Military (2025)full text of the audit with the figures and the department’s response
- Auditor General of Canada, Report 3, Canada’s Fighter Force (Fall 2018)the audit that found the CF-188 fleet could not meet the government’s own readiness commitment
- Auditor General of Canada, Report 6, Search and Rescue Activities (Spring 2013)the audit of federal search and rescue, aircraft availability and response times
- Parliamentary Budget Officer: Life-cycle cost estimate, F-35Athe PBO’s independent costings of the fighter programme, which have repeatedly differed from the department’s
- AIP Canada (ICAO), NAV CANADAthe authoritative Canadian source for aerodrome coordinates, elevations and runway data
- Дополнение к лётным планам Канады и Военное лётное дополнение, NAV CANADAОбозначения, длина и покрытие взлетно-посадочных полос; длина указывается в футах и переводится в метры здесь.
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Air Servicescontext for Canadian state aviation outside the armed forces
- Canadian Coast Guard helicoptersthe civil side of Canadian maritime search and rescue
- IISS, The Military Balance 2026Canadian fleet totals, personnel and defence spending; used as a cross-check against departmental figures
- FlightGlobal Мировые военно-воздушные силы 2026independent fleet counts by type, used as a cross-check
- Janes: Canada, air forceprogramme and inventory reporting
- 19FortyFive: Canada is committed to only 16 of 88 F-35sSeptember 2026 status of the F-35 review, the sixteen committed aircraft and the Luke AFB deliveries
- 19FortyFive: Canada can wait until 2029 to announce its F-35 decisiondelivery schedule, IOC and FOC dates, CF-18 retirement in 2032, Hornet Extension Project slippage
- Canada won’t rush decision on F-35 deal, defence minister says3 September 2026: David McGuinty quoted on the review; MQ-9B numbers and cost
- Canada’s F-35 review drags on with no decision timelinechronology of the review and its missed deadlines
- Lt.-Gen. Jamie Speiser-Blanchet becomes first woman to head the RCAFthe change of command on 11 July 2025 and her career
- Skies Magazine: RCAF appoints LGen Jamie Speiser-Blanchet as next commanderappointment and background
- Armada International: The Royal Canadian Air Force’s new pilot training fleetthe Future Aircrew Training designations and quantities: CT-102B, CT-157, CT-153, CT-145E, CT-142Q
- Armada International: Siskins to replace the Canadian Snowbirds’ Tutorsthe final Tutor season, the pause to 2030 and the CT-157 replacement
- Skies Magazine: Snowbirds set for final season flying Tutor jetthe team’s transition and the fleet numbers
- Skies Magazine: End of an era, RCAF 413 Squadron retires CC-130H Herculesthe January 2026 retirement at Greenwood and the run-out of the H model at Winnipeg
- Skies Magazine: RCAF unveils new CT-157 Siskin II training aircraftthe public unveiling and the name’s origin
- Skies Magazine: CH-149 Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade beginsthe Canadian assembly line at Halifax and the upgrade content
- Skies Magazine: Initial operational capability of Canada’s CC-295 delayedthe IOC slippage and its effect on search and rescue
- Aerospace Global News: Kingfisher progresscontract value, delivery status, basing plan and the reasons for delay
- Aerospace Global News: New RCAF designations and names for SkyAlyne’s training fleetthe designations as announced
- SkyAlyne: First look at the FAcT fleets in RCAF colourscontractor material on the training aircraft
- Leonardo: C$1 billion contract for the AW101/CH-149 Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrademanufacturer’s announcement of the 23 December 2022 contract
- Breaking Defense: Canada finalizes $5.9 billion P-8 Poseidon dealthe foreign military sale value and the sole-source argument
- Naval News: Canada chooses P-8A Poseidon as its new Multi-Mission Aircraftthe competition, the Bombardier objection and the delivery plan
- CBC News: Growing threats to Canada’s security drove $10B surveillance plane purchasepolitical context for the sole-sourced Poseidon buy
- CBC News: Air force’s first new refuelling jet won’t be delivered until late 2027the slippage in the CC-330 tanker conversion programme
- Janes: Canada selects GlobalEye for future AEW&C requirementthe May 2026 selection and what is and is not yet contracted
- AIN: Canada chooses Saab/Bombardier GlobalEye early warning platformthe selection, the airframe and the industrial arrangements
- Global News: More Canadians want to join the military, but current members keep leavingthe retention side of the personnel problem
- CBC News: Leaked military report shows many new recruits are quickly leavinginternal reporting on attrition among new entrants
- Esprit de Corps: Future Aircrew Training takes flightthe programme, the contractor and the transition from the old contracts
- Canadian Defence Review: CF-188 Hornet Extension ProjectHEP phases, aircraft numbers, approval dates, cost and the 2032 horizon
- Canadian Defence Review: Will nine CC-330 Husky tankers be enough?analysis of the tanker fleet size against the NORAD and expeditionary requirement
- National Air Force Museum of Canadathe service museum at Trenton; holds CC-150 Polaris 15001
- Canada Aviation and Space Museumholds the Arrow nose section, an Iroquois engine, a Bomarc and the national aviation collection
- Shearwater Aviation Museumthe naval aviation collection at 12 Wing Shearwater
- Civil Air Search and Rescue Associationthe volunteer organisation that flies a large share of Canadian search sorties
- OurAirports предоставляет данные об аэродромах и взлетно-посадочных полосах.Координаты, высоты и размеры взлетно-посадочной полосы перепроверены по данным AIP Canada, где это возможно; длина переведена из футов в метры.
- R.W. Walker, Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbersthe standard reference for Canadian military serials, deliveries and disposals by type
- John A. Griffin, Canadian Military Aircraft Serials and Photographs 1920–1968the standard printed reference for pre-unification quantities
- Griffin, Smith and Castle, Canadian Military Aircraft 1968–1998the standard printed reference for post-unification quantities
- Larry Milberry, Sixty Years: The RCAF and CF Air Command 1924–1984the standard narrative history of the service to 1984
- Greenhous and Halliday, Canada’s Air Forces 1914–1999official narrative history published with the Department of National Defence
- John Clearwater, Canadian Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Canadathe documented account of the four American nuclear weapon systems held in Canada between 1963 and 1984
- Kostenuk and Griffin, RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft 1924–1968squadron-by-squadron lineages and equipment
- Royal Canadian Air Force hosts Exercise MAPLE FLAG (news release)the 30 May to 24 June 2016 dates, the 1,300 Canadian and 400-plus allied personnel and the participating nations and aircraft types
- After 1,900 flying hours, Exercise Maple Flag wraps in Cold Lakethe 1,137 sorties, 1,945.08 flying hours, 1,063 simulated kills, 257 target complexes, 1,070,400 lb of fuel passed and the eight live and 69 inert weapons, and the Major Christopher Horch quotation
- Distraction, pilot error blamed in fatal CF-18 crash near Cold Lake, Alta.the 28 November 2016 accident, Captain Thomas McQueen’s age and service, and the verbatim findings of the flight safety investigation
- Investigation brief: Accident during 2016 Cold Lake Air Show, Albertathe 17 July 2016 T-28B accident, the single fatality, the absence of post-impact fire and the minor damage to airfield infrastructure
- SkyVector: CYOD Cold Lake/Group Captain R.W. Airportrunway designators, lengths and widths in feet (12,599 x 200, 9,999 x 150 and 8,273 x 200), field elevation 1,775 ft and the published coordinates; converted to metres here. Source publishes in feet; the Canada Flight Supplement itself is not freely retrievable
- Canada finalizes agreement to purchase new fighter jets for the Royal Canadian Air Forcethe 9 January 2023 agreement for 88 aircraft at a stated $19 billion, the Cold Lake and Bagotville fighter squadron facilities and the 2032–2034 full operational capability
- Canada’s First F-35s Reach Luke Air Force Base This Year and Canadian Soil in 2028the state of the F-35 review as of September 2026, the sixteen committed aircraft, the Luke Air Force Base training arrangement and the 2028 arrival in Canada
- Government awards design contract for future fighter infrastructure in Cold Lakethe 27 August 2020 $9.2 million design contract for future fighter facilities at 4 Wing
- A Storied Past: 3 Wing Bagotville1 OTU as the only Hurricane fighter training base in Canada and its 940 graduates, the 4,189 evacuees and 15,000 meals of Operation Saguenay in 1996, the 1985 start of 24-hour NORAD alert, and the finding that by the 1980s nearly 80 per cent of the base’s operations and administration were conducted in French
- Le 433e Escadron tactique de chasse renaîtthe 9 June 2015 reactivation ceremony, the officers present, the "Ti-pics" nickname and the verbatim French quotation from Lieutenant-général Yvan Blondin
- 433e Escadron d’appui tactique (Royal Canadian Air Force)the official squadron name, the "Porcs-épics" and "Ti-pics" nicknames, the motto "Qui s’y frotte, s’y pique", the porcupine badge, and the formation and disbandment dates of 25 September 1943, 16 October 1945, 15 November 1954, 31 July 1961, 26 September 1969 and 14 July 2005
- 433 Tactical Fighter Squadron (Bagotville Air Defence Museum)the Porcupine nickname and the 2,316 missions flown between January 1944 and April 1945
- 3 Wing Bagotville (Royal Canadian Air Force)the wing mission statement, the current unit list including 439 Domestic Response Squadron, and the statement that Bagotville will be one of two main operating bases for Canada’s future fighter. Note: the RCAF renamed its three Combat Support Squadrons — 439 at Bagotville, 417 at Cold Lake and 444 at Goose Bay — as Domestic Response Squadrons, although the individual squadron pages on canada.ca still carried the old title in September 2026
- NORAD Quick Reaction Alert facility construction begins at CFB Bagotvillethe August 2024 start, the roughly $120 million value, Pomerleau Inc as contractor, the 7,400 square metre facility and 17,000 square metre compound, the 2027 completion, the 600-plus regional jobs and the Bill Blair quotation
- Bagotville International Air Show (Aviation News Journal)the 22–23 June 2024 dates, the record 151,000 attendance split 83,000 and 68,000, the previous record of 143,000 in 2019, the 1953 founding, the five-year gap and the fifteen acts including the RAF Typhoon display team and the Frecce Tricolori
- Flight Safety Investigation Report: Demonstration CF-18 accident, July 23, 2010Captain Brian Bews of 425 Squadron, 3 Wing Bagotville, the loss of right engine thrust during a high angle of attack pass at 300 feet, the ejection and parachute landing injuries and the destruction of the aircraft
- SkyVector: CYBG Bagotville Airportrunway 11/29 at 10,000 x 150 feet with an asphalt and concrete surface, runway 18/36 at 6,029 x 150 feet, field elevation 522 ft and the published coordinates; converted to metres here. Source publishes in feet
- Canada History: Aug 24, 2007 — Honouring Afghanistan war deadthe 24 August 2007 designation and 7 September 2007 sign unveiling, James Forbes and his petition, the roughly 170-kilometre route from CFB Trenton to the coroner’s forensic centre, and the total of 158 military and seven civilian Canadian deaths in Afghanistan
- Portion of 401 to become the Highway of Heroes (The Globe and Mail)the verbatim quotations from Ontario transport minister Donna Cansfield and from James Forbes, and the 170-kilometre length of the designated stretch
- The Way Home (Legion Magazine)the ramp ceremony and repatriation procedure at 8 Wing, the 2002 repatriation of the first four Canadians killed in Afghanistan and their names, the make-up of the crowds on the overpasses, and Master Corporal Byron Greff as the last of the 158
- Operation AEGIS (Department of National Defence)the August 2021 dates, the CC-130J, CC-150 and CC-177 aircraft used, the thirteen nations flying the air bridge and the approximately 3,700 people evacuated as at 26 August
- Flight Safety Investigation Report: Igloolik SAR incident of October 27, 2011the location eight nautical miles southeast of Igloolik, the Trenton-based CC-130 Hercules and the three SAR technicians dropped, the death of Sergeant Janick Gilbert and the scope of the investigation
- RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III reaches impressive milestone (The Maple Leaf)the 8 August 2007 delivery of the first CC-177 and the 10,000 flying hours reached by CC-17701 on 12 October 2018 during a northern resupply mission
- Handley Page Halifax (National Air Force Museum of Canada)the 24 April 1945 loss of NA337 on a supply drop to the Norwegian resistance, the ditching in Lake Mjøsa, the single survivor, the 1995 recovery, the decade of volunteer restoration, the 2005 unveiling and the 6,176 Halifaxes built
- SkyVector: CYTR Trenton Airportrunway 06/24 at 10,001 x 200 feet asphalt, field elevation 283 ft and the published coordinates; converted to metres here. Source publishes in feet and lists no second runway at CYTR
- Labrador loss 25 years ago affected us all (The Aurora)the 2 October 1998 loss of Labrador 305 near Marsoui, the six crew names and roles, the fuel leak, fire and in-flight break-up, the circumstances of the tasking, and the verbatim quotations from Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Norris and Chief Warrant Officer Stephen Bates
- Remembering the crash of Boxtop Flight 22 (Royal Canadian Air Force)the 30 October 1991 crash of CC-130 130322 of 435 Squadron 16 km south of CFS Alert, the eighteen on board, the five deaths and thirteen survivors, and the 413 Squadron SAR technicians who parachuted in over 32 hours after the crash
- End of an era: RCAF 413 Squadron retires CC-130H Hercules after decades of servicethe mid-January 2026 final flight, aircraft 333 with about 37,000 hours as the highest-time H model, the failed departure attempts, the 3,600 nautical mile range and twelve-hour endurance, and the verbatim quotations from Major Kristopher Kelusky and Lieutenant-Colonel Greg Boone
- Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft project (Government of Canada)up to 16 P-8A Poseidon aircraft to replace the CP-140 Aurora, basing at 14 Wing Greenwood and 19 Wing Comox, acquisition costed at greater than $5 billion, in-service support through 2055 at greater than $10 billion, and first delivery stated for 2027
- SkyVector: CYZX Greenwood Airportrunways 08/26 and 12/30 each at 7,999 x 200 feet, 08/26 grooved asphalt, the two 98 x 98 ft helipads, field elevation 92 ft and the published coordinates; converted to metres here. Source publishes in feet
- 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron (Royal Canadian Air Force)the Victoria search and rescue region of about 920,000 square kilometres of terrain and 560,000 square kilometres of ocean to roughly 600 nautical miles offshore, the 27,000 kilometres of coastline, the roughly 200 personnel, the aircraft types, the motto and the Haietlik badge
- Behind the final operational flight of the CC-115 Buffalo (Skies Magazine)the 15 January 2022 final flight, aircraft 115452, Captains Fahim Awan and Matthew Hart, the football-field strip performance and contour flying in British Columbia valleys, and the verbatim quotations from both pilots
- Final operational flight of the CC-115 Buffalo aircraft (Department of National Defence)the June 1967 to December 1968 procurement, the 1975 change to the search and rescue role, the 9 August 1974 shoot-down with nine killed, the three airframes retained as artefacts, the sixteen CC-295 Kingfishers on order and the verbatim quotations from Anita Anand, Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger and Lieutenant-Colonel Rhonda Stevens
- Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft project (Government of Canada)up to 16 P-8A Poseidon aircraft to replace the CP-140 Aurora, to be based at 14 Wing Greenwood and 19 Wing Comox, acquisition above $5 billion, in-service support through 2055 above $10 billion and first delivery stated for 2027
- SkyVector: CYQQ Comox Airportrunway 12/30 at 10,001 x 200 feet concrete and runway 18/36 at 4,998 x 200 feet asphalt, field elevation 84 ft and the published coordinates; converted to metres here. Source publishes in feet and gives 12/30 as concrete rather than porous friction course
- 5 Wing Goose Bay: Little wing, big effect (Skies Magazine)the 75 military personnel, 90 civilians and roughly 250 Serco Canada staff, the 295,000 square kilometre area of responsibility, the 22,500 aircraft staged in the Second World War, the 12,000 people on the base during the Cold War, 444 Domestic Response Squadron’s three Griffons, the practice target area 65 nautical miles south with 5,200-foot and 1,500-foot strips, the altitude blocks to 60,000 feet, the 2018–19 Luftwaffe A319, A340 and A400M training, and the verbatim quotation from Lieutenant-Colonel Stephane Racle
- Alcantara, Indigenous Contentious Collective Action in Canada: The Labrador Innu and their Occupation of the Goose Bay Military Air Base (Canadian Journal of Native Studies 30:1)the 15 September 1988 occupation by about 75 Innu, the 22 September protest by about 100, the seven runway protests between September and December 1988, the arrests of Daniel Ashini, Penote Ben Michel, Peter Penashue and Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue and the trial judge’s finding that they honestly believed they were not trespassing, the later appellate reversal, the 1986 memorandum of understanding raising sorties from 6,300 to 18,000 a year, the 22 May 1990 NATO decision not to build the tactical fighter weapons training centre, and the 1995 environmental assessment panel report
- Innu Women and NATO: The Occupation of Nitassinan (Cultural Survival Quarterly)the nineteen days served in a provincial jail in the early spring of 1989, the eight further Innu women and seven Innu men arrested, the figure of more than 250 arrests by the summer of 1989, the 8,000 low-level flights a year between April and November, and the verbatim quotations from Rose Gregoire and Francesca Snow
- Justice applied with respect to culture and traditions of Inuit (Windspeaker)Provincial Court Judge James Igloliorte dismissing the trespassing charges against the Innu who occupied the Canadian Forces base, and the description of him as the first Canadian judge to decide such a case that way
- OurAirports: CYYR Goose Bay Airport runwaysrunway 08/26 at 11,046 by 209 feet asphalt and runway 15/33 at 9,580 by 200 feet asphalt, both lighted; the source publishes in feet and the metric figures here are converted
- Flight Safety Investigation Report for Stalker 22 Accident (Department of National Defence)the 28 June 2021 release date, the Command Model Attitude Bias Phenomenon, the finding that manual input overriding an engaged flight director left insufficient control authority, the names and ranks of the six killed, and the verbatim quotation from Brigadier-General John Alexander
- Cyclone crash report details events that led to fatal flight control problem (Vertical Magazine)the technical detail of the return-to-target turn at about 50 feet and 130 knots, the climb to roughly 410 feet and deceleration to 85 knots, the radar altitude hold and indicated airspeed hold functions left engaged, the cyclic pulled to the aft stop, and the 14-second accident sequence
- The Sea King attrition saga (Canadian Naval Review)fourteen of the 41 Canadian Sea Kings lost in accidents between 1967 and 2006, an attrition rate of about a third, seven naval aviators killed plus one further fatality, and the breakdown of causes into engines, main gearboxes and crew input
- Operation Persistence (Veterans Affairs Canada)the 2 September 1998 crash at 22:31, the more than 2,400 Canadian Armed Forces members with about 1,300 navy, 700 army and 400 air force, the 450 RCMP officers, HMCS Preserver, Moncton, Ville de Quebec and the submarine Okanagan, the 6 and 11 September recorder recoveries, the temporary morgue at CFB Shearwater, the completion in December 1999 and the 98 per cent recovery of over 126,000 kilograms with all 229 identified
- Destroyer, damaged Sea King return to N.S. (CBC News)the engine failure on take-off from HMCS Iroquois near the Grand Banks as the ship sailed for the Persian Gulf, the fall of about ten metres back onto the flight deck, the two crew slightly hurt and the verbatim comments of Commander Paul Maddison
- 423 Squadron conducts its last Sea King flight (Skies Magazine)the 26 January 2018 final East Coast Sea King flight at 12 Wing Shearwater with three aircraft in the flypast, and the 54 years of Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force service
- Sea King: Going out with style (Royal Canadian Air Force)the 24 May 1963 service entry and December 2018 retirement, the CHSS-2 origin as a Royal Canadian Navy anti-submarine system, the operations from HMCS Bonaventure and destroyer escorts, the avionics upgrades and the verbatim quotation from Lieutenant-Colonel Travis Chapman
- 12 Wing Shearwater History (Royal Canadian Air Force)the August 1918 United States Naval Air Station Halifax at Baker’s Point, the description of Shearwater as the birthplace of maritime patrol aviation in Canada, the Second World War bomber reconnaissance squadrons, HMCS Shearwater as the cradle of Canadian naval aviation, the Canadian origin of destroyer helicopter operations and the Sea King’s deployments to the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Somalia, Haiti and the Adriatic
- OurAirports: CYAW Shearwater Heliportthe coordinates 44.636782 / -63.502107 and the field elevation of 144 feet, about 44 metres; the runway list gives 16H/34H at 3,500 by 112 feet active and 16/34 and 10/28 closed. The source publishes in feet and the metric figures here are converted
- Flight Safety Investigation Report for Kamloops Snowbirds accident (Department of National Defence)the 17 May 2020 date, the single small bird ingested on take-off causing a compressor stall, the climb and turn back, the aerodynamic stall and the ejection below the safe envelope, the death of Captain Jenn Casey and the injury to Captain Richard MacDougall, the five preventive measures recommended and the verbatim quotation from Colonel John Alexander
- Компания SkyAlyne получила контракт на сумму 11,2 миллиарда долларов на реализацию канадской программы подготовки будущих летчиков (журнал Skies Magazine).the 29 May 2024 award, the 11.2 billion dollar value including taxes over 25 years, the CAE and KF Aerospace joint venture, the aircraft types, the bases at 15 Wing Moose Jaw, Portage la Prairie and 402 Squadron at 17 Wing Winnipeg, the spring 2029 training start and the verbatim quotations from Bill Blair and Lieutenant-General Eric Kenny
- First Pilatus PC-21 trainers for Canada depart Switzerland (Army Recognition)the departure of the first two CT-157 Siskin II aircraft from Switzerland on 14 September 2026, the 19 PC-21s bought by KF Aerospace for SkyAlyne, the 71 aircraft across five fleets and 15 Wing Moose Jaw as the primary operating base
- RCAF embarks on Bridge FLIT as 419 Squadron begins hiatus (Royal Canadian Air Force)the end of CT-155 Hawk training at 15 Wing Moose Jaw in the summer of 2023, the Hawk’s roughly 24 years of service, the 8 March 2024 start of 419 Squadron’s hiatus and planned reactivation in the early 2030s, the placements in Finland and at Italy’s International Flight Training School and the up to seven students a year at ENJJPT, Sheppard Air Force Base
- More details released on military plane crash near Moose Jaw (Global News)the 27 January 2017 CT-156 Harvard II accident at 15 Wing: the student reducing thrust to idle during aerobatic training, the instructor taking control, the low oil pressure warning and power loss at low altitude, the double ejection and the one pilot with minor injuries
- Flight Safety Report on 2014 training accident to be released (Department of National Defence)the 24 January 2014 CT-156 Harvard II accident at 15 Wing Moose Jaw during practised forced landings, the hard landing that damaged the gear, the successful double ejection with minor injuries and the destruction of the aircraft
- SkyVector: CYMJ Moose Jaw / Air Vice-Marshal C.M. McEwen Airportfield elevation 1,892 feet, coordinates N50 19.82 / W105 33.55, and runways 11L/29R at 8,320 by 150 feet, 11R/29L at 7,280 by 150 feet and 03/21 at 3,460 by 100 feet, all asphalt. The source publishes in feet and the metric figures here are converted
- История 17-го крыла (Королевские военно-воздушные силы Канады)Станция Авиационного управления 1922 года, открытие авиабазы Королевских ВВС Канады в Виннипеге в апреле 1925 года как одной из первых авиабаз в Канаде, цифра более 130 000 летчиков в рамках Британского плана подготовки летчиков Содружества, более 5000 иностранных летчиков из 2-й школы воздушных наблюдателей и Центральной навигационной школы, формирование 1 октября 1950 года резервного крыла Королевских ВВС Канады в Виннипеге, воссоздание 17-го крыла 1 апреля 1993 года, прибытие в 1994 году 435-й эскадрильи и 1-й эскадрильи воздушного движения, более 2900 человек личного состава, включая около 650 местных гражданских лиц, и присвоение звания почетного гражданина города в октябре 1992 года.
- 435-я транспортно-спасательная эскадрилья (Королевские военно-воздушные силы Канады)Миссия воздушной мобильности и поисково-спасательных операций, включая дозаправку истребителей в воздухе, формирование в ноябре 1944 года в Гуджрате, эмблема «чинтхе», девиз «Certi Provehendi» (Серти Провехенди), описание поисково-спасательного района Трентона как крупнейшего в Канаде, простирающегося от Квебека до границы Британской Колумбии и Альберты и от границы Соединенных Штатов до Северного полюса, а также заявление о том, что эскадрилья является единственным подразделением, осуществляющим дозаправку в воздухе с 1992 года.
- 435-я транспортно-спасательная эскадрилья: Двойная задача, единая цель (журнал Skies)Четыре самолета CC-130H Hercules, 30-минутная готовность в будние дни и двухчасовая готовность ночью и в выходные, от двух до трех миллионов фунтов топлива, выгружаемого в год, 32 недели из 52, проведенные вдали от дома, роль вспомогательных сил в переоборудовании других поисково-спасательных баз на самолеты CC-295, а также дословные цитаты подполковника Джона Коффина, майора Кэмерона Поу и капитана Пэта Кетсмана.
- 435-я эскадрилья обеспечивает дозаправку в воздухе уже четверть века (журнал Skies Magazine)Пять самолетов CC-130H, поставленных к концу 1992 года, первый курс подготовки летного состава в 1993 году, первая оперативная миссия 11 февраля 1993 года по перехвату угнанного самолета Lufthansa A310, операция «Южный дозор» в 1998 году, 79 дней операции «Союзная сила» в 1999 году, операция «Благородный орел» с 2001 года, операция «Мобил» из Сицилии в 2011 году, подвесной контейнер Cobham Mk 32B-751, передающий до 1136 литров в минуту через 78-футовый шланг, и музейная экспозиция от 31 мая 2018 года.
- Компания SkyAlyne получила контракт на сумму 11,2 миллиарда долларов на реализацию канадской программы подготовки будущих летчиков (журнал Skies Magazine).В результате голосования 29 мая 2024 года 402-я эскадрилья 17-го крыла в Виннипеге была названа одной из трех площадок для реализации программы, а самолет De Havilland Dash 8-400 с системой подготовки пилотов был включен в число пяти флотов.
- Наши аэропорты: Взлетно-посадочные полосы международного аэропорта имени Джеймса Армстронга Ричардсона в Виннипеге (CYWG).Взлетно-посадочная полоса 18/36 имеет размеры 11 000 на 200 футов, асфальтированная – 13/31, асфальтированная – 8 841 на 200 футов, а закрытая 25 июля – 4 500 на 200 футов; SkyVector указывает высоту аэродрома как 784 фута. Оба источника публикуют данные в футах, а приведенные здесь метрические значения переведены.
- Flight Safety Investigation Report for CH147310 Chinook accident (Department of National Defence)the 20 June 2023 accident on the Ottawa River near Garrison Petawawa, the finding of unrecognised spatial disorientation affecting all crew members with unrecognised downward acceleration and environmental conditions as contributors, the preventive measures recommended at base, squadron, wing, division and strategic levels, the deaths of Captain Marc Larouche and Captain David Domagala and the two flight engineers with minor injuries, and the verbatim quotations from Colonel Jean-François Gauvin and Lieutenant-General Eric Kenny
- Royal Canadian Air Force members recovered from CH-147F Chinook helicopter crash identified (Department of National Defence)the naming of Captain David Domagala, 32, posted to 450 Tactical Helicopter Squadron in 2019, and Captain Marc Larouche, 53, following identification by the coroner and in accordance with the families’ wishes
- The Lion evolved: the story of 427 Squadron’s celebrated 75-year history (Royal Canadian Air Force, The Maple Leaf)the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adoption with aircraft named after Judy Garland, Lana Turner and Joan Crawford, the lifetime passes to MGM theatres across North America, the lion cub presented through Winston Churchill, the roughly 3,200 wartime sorties, the four DSOs, two CGMs, 16 DFMs and 147 DFCs, the 1952 reforming, the move to Zweibrücken, the CF-104 years, the 1 January 1971 reforming at Petawawa, the 1997 standardisation on the Griffon and the 2006 CANSOFCOM reorganisation
- Boeing CH-47D Chinook in Canadian Armed Forces (Helis.com)the purchase of six CH-147D aircraft from the United States Army for 292 million dollars delivered in December 2008 as 147201 to 147206, the operations from the X-Ray ramp at Kandahar Airfield from 28 December 2008 to 30 July 2011 totalling 7,084.5 flying hours, 90,723 passengers and 7,097,989 pounds of cargo, the loss to small arms fire on 5 August 2010 and the landing crash of 15 May 2011 with thirty aboard, the four survivors sent to Arizona in October 2011 and the two museum donations of December 2016, and the August 2009 announcement of fifteen CH-147F aircraft for delivery in 2013 and 2014
- Royal Canadian Air Force CH-147 Chinook helicopter fleet complete (Royal Canadian Air Force, The Maple Leaf)the declaration of fleet completion on 3 July 2014, the fifteen aircraft delivered within a single year with the final aircraft accepted on 30 June 2014, and the verbatim statements from Rob Nicholson, Steve Parker of Boeing and Colonel Andrew Fleming
- Initial Flight Safety Report for Griffon Helicopter Accident in Afghanistan on July 6, 2009 (Government of Canada)the 6 July 2009 accident near a forward operating base outside Kandahar, the aircraft of 430 Escadron tactique d’hélicoptères contacting a barrier in dust-ball conditions on take-off, the deaths of Master Corporal Pat Audet, Corporal Martin Joannette and a coalition soldier, and the focus of the investigation on training and procedures for the Afghan environment
- The Silver Dart: Canada’s first successful plane and the RCAF (Legion Magazine)the four demonstration flights at Petawawa in August 1909, the wrecking of the aircraft on the final flight, the interest of the Department of Militia and Defence and its decision to put an aerial division on hold
- OurAirports: CYWA Petawawa Heliportthe coordinates 45.952202 / -77.319199 and the elevation of 427 feet, about 130 metres; the runway listing gives the closed 17/35 as 3,800 by 75 feet of unpaved grass. The source publishes in feet and the metric figures here are converted
- RCAF unveils new CT-157 Siskin II training aircraft at Gatineau airshow (Skies Magazine)
- Government of Canada conditionally sells retired CC-130H Hercules aircraft (Public Services and Procurement Canada, 7 August 2026)
- 417 Squadron shifts focus to domestic response (Courier News, 28 February 2026)
- Future Fighter Capability Project (Department of National Defence)
- Strategic Tanker Transport Capability Project (Department of National Defence)
- Cormorant Mid-Life Upgrade (Department of National Defence)
- Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Project (Department of National Defence)
- Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Replacement Project (Department of National Defence)
- State of the Canadian Armed Forces (Department of National Defence)
- Departmental Plan 2026-27 (Department of National Defence)
- Canada achieves the 2% of GDP defence spending benchmark (Department of National Defence, 26 March 2026)
- On Windswept Heights II: RCAF timeline (Royal Canadian Air Force)
- CT-153 Juno (Royal Canadian Air Force)
- 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron (Royal Canadian Air Force)
- Canada quietly paying for F-35 components (CBC News, February 2026)
Figures verified 2026-09-21. Order of Battle pages are regenerated from a single dataset; if a number here disagrees with a Book of Beasts page, this page is the more recent of the two.
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