List of Australian Army aircraft

This is a list of all aircraft operated by the Australian Army since its formation.

Current

A Tiger helicopter

A S-70 Blackhawk (left) and CH-47 Chinook (right)

Aircraft	Origin	Type	Versions	In service[1]	Notes
OH-58 Kiowa	United States  Australia	OH-58A Scout helicopter	206B	42	Built under licence in Australia by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. To be partially replaced by the Eurocopter Tiger.
Boeing CH-47 Chinook	United States	Transport helicopter	CH-47F	7	One CH-47D was destroyed during operations in Afghanistan on 30 May 2011.[2] Two additional CH-47Ds ordered in December 2011 as attrition replacement and to boost heavy lift capability.[3] The last of 7 new CH-47Fs was delivered in September 2015 and the D models subsequently retired.[4]
Eurocopter Tiger	Europe	Attack helicopter	Tiger ARH	22
Sikorsky S-70 Blackhawk	United States	Utility helicopter	S-70A-9	35	Transferred from the Royal Australian Air Force as UH-60L.[5]
MRH 90	Europe	Utility helicopter	TTH: Tactical Transport Helicopter	40	Sixteen TTH MRH-90 have been accepted by the Defence Materiel Organisation so far, total of 46 on order (including 6 for the Royal Australian Navy)

Unmanned aerial vehicles

• Insitu Aerosonde
• Elbit Systems Skylark
• RQ-7 Shadow

Historic

An Australian Army UH-1 Iroquois helicopter on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Fixed-wing aircraft

• Auster Mark III
• Cessna 180
• Pilatus PC-6/B2-H2 Turbo-Porter
• Cessna L-19 Bird Dog
• GAF Nomad
• Beechcraft Super King Air (B200, B200C and B300)
• De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter

Helicopters

• Aerospatiale AS.350B Squirrel
• Bell Sioux
• Bell UH-1 Iroquois

Notes

1. "World Military Aircraft Inventory", Aerospace Source Book 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology, 15 January 2007.
2. "Australian Chinook crashes in Afghanistan". Australian Aviation. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
3. "Defence to buy two more Chinook choppers". ninemsn. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
4. "Australian Army receives final CH-47F Chinook". Australian Aviation. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
5. Leoni 2007, pp. 250–256.

References

• Leoni, Ray D. (2007). Black Hawk, The Story of a World Class Helicopter. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ISBN 978-1-56347-918-2.