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Military transport aircraft include load-carrying non-combat types such as freight and troop carriers, as well as some other specialised types, used by military forces around the world.
Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Payload (t) | Range (km) | Notes |
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AgustaWestland AW109 | Italy | Rotorcraft | 1976 | 0.680 | 920 | ||
AgustaWestland AW101/EH-101 | Italy United Kingdom |
Rotorcraft | 1999 | 5.5 | 833 | ||
AgustaWestland AW139 | Italy | Rotorcraft | 2003 | 1.575 | 1,250 | ||
AgustaWestland AW149 | Italy | Rotorcraft | 2003 | 800 | |||
AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat | Italy | Rotorcraft | 2014 | 1.5 | 777 | ||
AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant | Italy | Rotorcraft | 2000 | 8.5 | 833 | ||
Airbus A330 MRTT | Europe | Jet | Strategic / tanker | 2007 | 45 | 14,800 | |
Airbus A400M | Europe | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 2009 | 37 | 6,400 | |
Alenia C-27J Spartan | Italy | Propeller | Tactical | 2008 | 11.5 | 5,926 | |
Antonov An-72 Coaler | Ukraine | Jet | Tactical | 1977 | 10 | 4,325 | [1] |
Antonov An-178 | Ukraine | Jet | Tactical | 2015 | 18 | 5,500 | |
Antonov An-132 | Ukraine | Propeller | Tactical | 2016 | 9.2 | 4,400 | Project suspended [2] |
Bell UH-1Y Venom | US | Rotorcraft | 2008 | 3 | |||
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey | US | Rotorcraft | Tactical | 1989 | 6.8 | 1,627 | |
Boeing C-17 Globemaster III | US | Jet | Strategic / Tactical | 1991 | 77.5 | 10,390 | |
Boeing C-40 Clipper | US | Jet | VIP | 2001 | 18 | 5,600 | |
Boeing KC-767 | US | Jet | Strategic / tanker | 2005 | 29.5 | 11,830 | |
Boeing KC-46 Pegasus | US | Jet | Strategic / tanker | 2013 | 29.5 | 11,830 | |
CASA CN-235 | Spain | Propeller | Tactical | 1983 | 5 | 5,003 | |
Changhe Z-18 | China | Rotorcraft | 2014 | 5 | 1,020 | ||
Embraer KC-390 | Brazil | Jet | Tactical | 2014 | 23 | 5,820 | |
Eurocopter AS532 Cougar | France | Rotorcraft | 1978 | 1.5 | 572 | ||
Eurocopter AS565 Panther | France | Rotorcraft | 1986 | 2 | 572 | ||
Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma/Airbus Helicopters H225 | France | Rotorcraft | 2004 | 5.5 | 857 | ||
Eurocopter EC725/Airbus Helicopters H225M | France | Rotorcraft | 2005 | 5.5 | 857 | ||
Harbin Y-12 | China | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1983 | 1,340 | ||
Harbin Z-9 | China | Rotorcraft | 1994 | 1.5 | 572 | ||
HESA Simourgh | Iran | Propeller | 2023 | 6 | 900 | ||
Ilyushin Il-76 Candid | Russia | Jet | Strategic / Tactical | 1971 | 47 | 4,400 | |
Ilyushin Il-112 | Russia | Propeller | Tactical | 2011 | 5.9 | 5,000 | |
Kawasaki C-2 | Japan | Jet | Tactical | 2010 | 37.6 | 6,500 | |
Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules | US | Propeller | Tactical / tanker | 1996 | 19-20 | 3,334 | |
Mil Mi-8 | Russia | Rotorcraft | 1967 | 4 | 610 | ||
Mil Mi-17 | Russia | Rotorcraft | 1977 | 4 | 610 | ||
Mil Mi-26 | Russia | Rotorcraft | 1977 | 20 | 800 | ||
NHIndustries NH90 | EU | Rotorcraft | 2007 | 2.5 | 800 | ||
Shaanxi Y-8 | China | Propeller | Tactical | 1974 | 20 | 5,616 | [3] |
Shaanxi Y-9 | China | Propeller | Tactical | 2008 | 25 | 2,200 | |
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk | US | Rotorcraft | 1979 | 4 | 590 | ||
Xian Y-20 | China | Jet | Strategic / Tactical | 2013 | 66 | 7,800 |
Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Payload (t) | Range (km) | Notes |
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Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma | France | Rotorcraft | 1968 | 3 (Internal)/4.5(External) | 580 | [4] | |
Airbus A310 MRTT | EU | Jet | Strategic / tanker | 2003 | 36 | 6,500 | [5] |
Antonov An-2 Colt | USSR | Propeller | Tactical | 1947 | 2 | 845 | [6] |
Antonov An-12 Cub | USSR | Propeller | Tactical | 1959 | 20 | 5,700 | [7] |
Antonov An-22 Antei | USSR | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1965 | 80 | 5,000 | [8] |
Antonov An-26 Curl | USSR | Propeller | Tactical | 1969 | 5.5 | 2,550 | [9] |
Antonov An-28 Cash | USSR | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1986 | 2.5 | 1,500 | [10] |
Antonov An-32 Cline | USSR | Propeller | Tactical | 1976 | 6.7 | 2,500 | [11] |
Antonov An-70 | Ukraine | Jet | Strategic / Tactical | 1994 | 47 | 6,600 | [12] |
Antonov An-124 Ruslan | USSR | Jet | Strategic | 1982 | 150 | 5,410 | [13] |
BAe 146 | UK | Jet | Strategic / Tactical | 1981 | |||
Beechcraft C-12 Huron | US | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1974 | 2.1 | 2,900 | [14] |
Bell UH-1 Iroquois | US | Rotorcraft | 1959 | 1.7 | 507 | ||
Bell UH-1N Twin Huey | US | Rotorcraft | 1970 | 460 | |||
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight | US | Rotorcraft | 1964 | 2.2 | 1,020 | ||
Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook | US | Rotorcraft | 1962 | 11 | 370 | ||
Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander | UK | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1965 | 2 | 1,400 | |
CASA C-212 Aviocar | Indonesia Spain |
Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1971 | 2.8 | 1,433 | [15] |
Changhe Z-8 | China | Rotorcraft | 1994 | 5 | 1,020 | ||
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter | Canada | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1966 | 1,434 | ||
EADS CASA C-295 | Spain | Propeller | Tactical | 1998 | 9.3 | 5,400 | |
Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin | France | Rotorcraft | 1978 | 1.5 | 572 | ||
Fokker F27 Friendship | Netherlands | Propeller | Tactical | 1958 | 2,055 | ||
Fokker 50 | Netherlands | Propeller | Tactical | 1985 | 1,666 | ||
IAR 330 | Romania | Rotorcraft | 1975 | 572 | |||
Kawasaki C-1 | Japan | Jet | Tactical | 1970 | 11.9 | 1,300 | [16] |
Lockheed C-130 Hercules | US | Propeller | Tactical / tanker | 1954 | 20.4 | 3,800 | |
Lockheed C-5M Galaxy | US | Jet | Strategic | 1968 | 127.4 | 9,000 [Note 1] | [17] |
McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender | US | Jet | Strategic / tanker | 1980 | 76.5 | 18,000 [Note 2] | [18] |
Short C-23 Sherpa | UK | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1982 | 3.2 | 1,239 | |
Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion | US | Rotorcraft | 1966 | 3.6 | 1,000 | ||
Westland Lynx | UK | Rotorcraft | 1978 | 1.5 | 528 | ||
Westland Sea King / Commando | UK | Rotorcraft | Tactical | 1969 | 1,230 |
Type | Country | Class | Role | Date | Payload (t) | Range (km) | Notes |
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Aeritalia G.222 | Italy | Propeller | Tactical | 1978 | 9 | 1,371 | [19] |
Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon | France | Rotorcraft | 1966 | 5 | 1,020 | [20] | |
AGO Ao 192 | Germany | Propeller | VIP/Comms | 1935 | (6 pax) | 1,360 | Six built |
Airspeed AS.6 Envoy | UK | Propeller | VIP/Comms | 1934 | (6 pax) | 1,050 | approx 15-25 saw military service [21] |
Airspeed AS.10 Oxford | UK | Propeller | Light transport/Comms | 1937 | (6 pax) | 1,400 | 8,851 built (mostly as trainers) [22] |
Airspeed Horsa | UK | Glider | Tactical | 1941 | [23] | ||
Antonov A-7 | USSR | Glider | Tactical | 1941 | 0.9 | [24] | |
Antonov An-8 Camp | USSR | Propeller | Tactical | 1958 | 11 | 2,780 | [25] |
Antonov An-10 Cat | USSR | Propeller | Tactical | 1959 | 8.4 | 4,075 | [26] |
Antonov An-14 Clod | USSR | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1966 | 7 | 650 | [27] |
Arado Ar 232 | Germany | Propeller | Tactical | 1943 | 4.5 | 1,062 | [28] |
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy | UK | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1960 | 13 | 5,552 | [29] |
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle | UK | Propeller | Tactical | 1943 | 2 | 2,100 | [30] |
Armstrong Whitworth Awana | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1923 | 580 | Prototype[31] | |
Atlas Oryx | South Africa | Rotorcraft | 1987 | 303 | |||
Avro Andover | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1924 | 740 | [32] | |
Avro York | UK | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1944 | 9.1 | 4,800 | |
Bloch MB.220 | France | Propeller | Tactical | 1939 | 1,400 | [33] | |
Blackburn Beverley | UK | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1955 | 20 | 2,000 | |
Blohm & Voss BV 144 | Germany | Propeller | 1944 | 1,550 | |||
Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking | Germany | Propeller | 1940 | 6,100 | Flying boat | ||
Blohm & Voss Ha 139 | Germany | Propeller | 1936 | 4,600 | Prototype | ||
Boeing C-73 | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1942 | 1,200 | ||
Boeing C-75 Stratoliner | US | Propeller | Strategic / VIP | 1942 | 3.6 | 2,820 | [34] |
Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1943 | 5 | 3,219 | Prototype |
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter | US | Propeller | Strategic / tanker | 1951 | 9.1 | 6,920 | |
Boeing YC-14 | US | Jet | Tactical | 1976 | 31.4 | 5,136 | Prototype |
Bristol Bombay | UK | Propeller | Tactical | 1935 | 7 | 1,416 | Dual purpose bomber/transport |
Bristol Britannia | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1957 | 18.5 | 7,130 | [35] |
Bristol Freighter | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1945 | 7.3 (Mk31) | 1,320 | |
Canadair North Star | Canada | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1946 | 5 | 6,212 | |
Canadair CL-44/CC-106 Yukon | Canada | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1960 | 8,990 | ||
Canadair CC-109 Cosmopolitan | Canada | Propeller | Tactical | 1960 | 6.4 | 3,660 | |
Caproni Ca.122 | Italy | Propeller | Tactical | 1934 | 1,500 | [36] | |
Caproni Ca.133 | Italy | Propeller | Tactical | 1935 | 1,350 | [37] | |
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1942 | 4.5 | 5,311 | |
Consolidated R2Y | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1944 | 5.5 | 6,400 | Prototype |
Convair XC-99 | US | Propeller | Strategic | 1949 | 45 | 13,041 | Prototype |
Convair C-131 Samaritan | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1950 | 750 | ||
Curtiss C-46 Commando | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1941 | 6.8 | 5,069 | [38] |
Curtiss C-76 Caravan | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1943 | 3.6 | 1,210 | [39] |
de Havilland DH.104 Dove | UK | Propeller | VIP | 1936 | 1 | 1,420 | [40] |
de Havilland DH.114 Heron | UK | Propeller | VIP | 1950 | 1,473 | [41] | |
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou | Canada | Propeller | Tactical | 1958 | 3.6 | 2,103 | |
de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo | Canada | Propeller | Tactical | 1965 | 8.2 | 1,112 | |
DFS 230 | Germany | Glider | Tactical | 1937 | |||
DFS 331 | Germany | Glider | Tactical | 1940 | 2.3 | Prototype | |
Dornier Do 19 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic | 1936 | 1,600 | ||
Douglas C-1 | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1926 | 1 | 620 | [42] |
Douglas DC-2/C-32 | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1937 | 1,750 | ||
Douglas C-47 Skytrain | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1941 | 3 | 2,600 | |
Douglas C-54 Skymaster | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1942 | 6,400 | ||
Douglas C-74 Globemaster | US | Propeller | Strategic | 1945 | 22 | 5,470 | |
Douglas C-47 Skytrain/C-117 Skytrain | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1951 | 3 | 2,600 | |
Douglas C-118 Liftmaster | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1947 | 12.7 | 6,700 | |
Douglas C-124 Globemaster II | US | Propeller | Strategic | 1950 | 34 | 10,975 | |
Douglas C-133 Cargomaster | US | Propeller | Strategic | 1956 | 53.5 | 6,590 | |
Fairchild C-82 Packet | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1944 | 12.5 | 6,239 | |
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1949 | 12.5 | 2,849 | |
Fairchild C-123 Provider | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1949 | 11 | 1,666 | |
Fairey Gannet COD.4 | UK | Propeller | Carrier Onboard Delivery | 1949 | |||
Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache | Germany | Rotorcraft | Tactical | 1940 | 700 | ||
Focke-Achgelis Fa 225 | Germany | Rotorcraft | Tactical | 1943 | Prototype | ||
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1937 | 3,560 | ||
Fokker Y1C | US | Propeller | Tactical | 1931 | 1,100 | [43] | |
General Aircraft Hamilcar | UK | Glider | Tactical | 1942 | 7 | ||
General Aircraft Hotspur | UK | Glider | Tactical | 1940 | |||
Gotha Go 146 | Germany | Propeller | 1936 | 1,000 | |||
Gotha Go 242 | Germany | Glider | 1941 | 4 | |||
Gotha Go 244 | Germany | Propeller | 1941 | 600 | |||
Gotha Go 345 | Germany | Glider | 1944 | 4.5 | Prototype | ||
Gotha Ka 430 | Germany | Glider | 1943 | 1.7 | Prototype | ||
Grumman C-1 Trader | US | Propeller | Carrier Onboard Delivery | 1952 | 1.6 | 2,092 | |
Grumman C-2 Greyhound | US | Propeller | Carrier Onboard Delivery | 1964 | 4.5 | 2,400 | |
Handley Page Clive | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1931 | 1,240 | [44] | |
Handley Page Halifax | UK | Propeller | Strategic/Tactical | 1940 | 3.6 | 2,990 | [45] |
Handley Page Hastings | UK | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1948 | 9 | 2,720 | |
Handley Page H.P.51 | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1935 | 1,530 | [46] | |
Hawker Siddeley Andover | UK | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1963 | 6.5 | 2,295 | |
Heinkel He 70 | Germany | Propeller | 1932 | 1,820 | [47] | ||
Ilyushin Il-12 Coach | Russia | Propeller | Tactical | 1946 | 1,500 | ||
Ilyushin Il-14 Crate | Russia | Propeller | Tactical | 1954 | 1,300 | ||
Ilyushin Il-18 Coot | USSR | Propeller | 1957 | 6,500 | |||
Junkers Ju 52 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1930 | 2 | 800 | |
Junkers Ju 89 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1938 | 1.5 | 2,980 | Prototype |
Junkers Ju 90 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1937 | 1,247 | ||
Junkers Ju 252 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1942 | 3,981 | ||
Junkers Ju 290 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1942 | 3 | 6,150 | |
Junkers Ju 322 | Germany | Glider | 1941 | 20 | Prototype | ||
Junkers Ju 352 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1943 | 1,800 | ||
Junkers Ju 390 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic | 1943 | 9,700 | Prototype | |
Junkers W 34 | Germany | Propeller | Tactical | 1926 | 900 | [48] | |
Kawasaki Ki-56 | Japan | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1940 | 3,300 | [49] | |
Lisunov Li-2 | USSR | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1939 | 3 | 2,600 | |
Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1940 | 4,025 | ||
Lockheed C-69 Constellation | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1943 | 3,900 | ||
Lockheed C-121 Constellation | US | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1948 | 4,445 | ||
Lockheed R6V Constitution | US | Propeller | Strategic | 1946 | 8,670 | Prototype | |
Lockheed C-141 Starlifter | US | Jet | Strategic / Tactical | 1963 | 28.4 | 9,880 | |
Lockheed TriStar (RAF) | US | Jet | Strategic / tanker | 1984 | 7,785 | ||
McDonnell Douglas C-9 | US | Jet | Strategic | 1968 | 4,700 | ||
McDonnell Douglas YC-15 | US | Jet | Tactical | 1975 | 35 | 4,810 | Prototype |
Messerschmitt Me 321 | Germany | Glider | Strategic / Tactical | 1941 | 20 | ||
Messerschmitt Me 323 | Germany | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1943 | 10 | 800 | |
Mil Mi-4 Hound | USSR | Rotorcraft | Tactical | 1952 | 1.6 | 500 | |
Mil Mi-6 Hook | USSR | Rotorcraft | 1957 | 12 (internal), 8 (external) | 970 | ||
Mitsubishi Ki-57 | Japan | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1942 | 3,000 | ||
Mitsubish MC-20 | Japan | Propeller | Strategic | 1944 | 2,700 | [50] | |
Myasishchev VM-T | USSR | Jet | Strategic | 1981 | 45 | 3,565 | [51] |
Nakajima Ki-34 | Japan | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1937 | 1,200 | [52] | |
Nanchang Y-5 | China | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1957 | 1,500 | 300 | |
Percival Pembroke | UK | Propeller | Communications / Utility | 1952 | 1,660 | ||
Piasecki H-16 Transporter | US | Rotorcraft | 1953 | 348 | Prototype | ||
Piasecki H-21 | US | Rotorcraft | 1952 | 427 | [53] | ||
PZL M-28 Skytruck | Poland | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1993 | 2.5 | 1,500 | |
Nord Noratlas | France | Propeller | Tactical | 1953 | 12.5 | 2,500 | [54] |
Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 | Italy | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1935 | 2 | 1,500 | |
Scottish Aviation Pioneer | UK | Propeller | Tactical | 1947 | 680 | ||
Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer | UK | Propeller | Tactical | 1955 | 2 | 1,287 | |
Short Belfast | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1964 | 55 | 8,528 | |
Short Skyvan | UK | Propeller | Tactical / Utility | 1963 | 5 | 1,117 | |
Short Stirling | UK | Propeller | Tactical | 1940 | 6.4 | 3750 | [55] |
Showa/Nakajima L2D | Japan | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1939 | 3 | 2,600 | |
Siebel Fh 104 | Germany | Propeller | 1937 | 1,000 | |||
Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave | US | Rotorcraft | 1956 | 3 | 233 | [56] | |
Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe | US | Rotorcraft | 1962 | 9.1 | 370 | ||
Slingsby Hengist | UK | Glider | Tactical | 1942 | |||
Sud-Ouest Bretagne | France | Propeller | Strategic | 1946 | 2,175 | [57] | |
Vickers Valentia | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1934 | 1,300 | [58] | |
Vickers Valetta | UK | Propeller | Strategic / Tactical | 1948 | 3 | 2,350 | |
Vickers VC-10 | UK | Jet | Strategic / Tanker | 1962 | |||
Vickers Vernon | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1921 | 510 | [59] | |
Vickers Victoria | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1926 | 1,240 | [60] | |
Vickers Warwick C Mk III | UK | Propeller | Strategic | 1944 | 4.3 | 3,700 | [61] |
Waco CG-4A | US | Glider | Tactical | 1942 | 1.9 | ||
Yakovlev Yak-24 | USSR | Rotorcraft | 1952 | 3.5 | 165 | ||
Yakovlev Yak-100 | USSR | Rotorcraft | Tactical | 1948 | 325 |