List of aircraft shootdowns

This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.

This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Military aircraft

Cold War

• Catalina affair (June 1952)
• Air battle over Merklín (March 10, 1953)
• U-2 shootdown incident (May 1, 1960)
• 1964 T-39 shootdown incident (January 28, 1964)
• Gulf of Sidra incident (August 19, 1981)
• Gulf of Sidra incident (January 4, 1989)

Yom Kippur War

• Ofira Air Battle (October 6, 1973)

Falklands War

• British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident (June 6, 1982)
• Argentine air forces shot down in the Falklands War (1982)

The Troubles

• British Army Gazelle downing (February 17, 1978)
• British Army Gazelle shootdown (February 11, 1990)
• British Army Lynx shootdown (March 20, 1994)

Persian Gulf War

• U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet shootdown (January 17, 1991)

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

• Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown (November 20, 1991)

Iraqi no-fly zones

• UH-60 Black Hawk friendly fire shootdown incident (April 14, 1994)

Croatian War of Independence

• 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing (January 7, 1992)

Bosnian War

• Banja Luka incident (February 28, 1994)
• Mrkonjić Grad incident (June 1995)

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

• 1999 F-117A shoot-down (March 27, 1999)

Second Chechen War

• Khankala Mi-26 shootdown (August 19, 2002)

Iraq War

• AH-64D Apache shot down near Karbala by the Iraqi Republican Guard (23 March 2003).^[1]
• CH-47D Chinook, shot down with an SA-7 missile near Fallujah (November 2, 2003).^[2]
• UH-60L Black Hawk shot down near Tikrit (November 7, 2003).^[3]
• Two UH-60L Black Hawks collide and crash after one aircraft coming under fire over Mosul (November 15, 2003).^[4]
• AH-64D Apache shot down near Abu Grahib.^[5]
• Blackwater USA Mi-8 Hip shootdown incident (April 21, 2005).

War in Donbass

• Ukrainian Army Aviation Mil Mi-24 shoot-down (May 2, 2014)
• Ukrainian Army Aviation Mil Mi-24 shoot-down (May 5, 2014)
• Ukrainian Mil Mi-8 shoot-down (May 29, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Antonov An-30 shoot-down (June 6, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down (June 14, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 shoot-down (June 19, 2014)
• Ukrainian Mil Mi-8 shoot-down (June 24, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Antonov An-26 shoot-down (July 14, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 shoot-down (July 16, 2014)
• Double Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 shoot-down (July 23, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 shoot-down (August 7, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29 shoot-down (August 17, 2014)
• Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24M shoot-down (August 20, 2014)
• Ukrainian Army aviation Mil Mi-24 shoot-down (August 20, 2014)
• Ukrainian Army aviation Sukhoi Su-25 shoot-down (August 29, 2014)

Syrian Civil War

• June 2012 interception of Turkish aircraft (June 22, 2012)
• 2013 helicopter incident (September 16, 2013)
• March 2014 Turkish shootdown of a Syrian aircraft (March 24, 2014)
• 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown (November 24, 2015)

Civilian aircraft

• List of airliner shootdown incidents – dealing with civilian airliners

See also

• List of Soviet aircraft losses in Afghanistan
• List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War
• List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War
• List of Coalition aircraft losses in Afghanistan

Notes

1. "1999 USAF Serial Numbers". www.joebaugher.com. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
2. "Helicopter crash kills 16 soldiers headed for leave". CNN. 3 November 2007. Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 8 June 2007.
3. "Crash Kills 6 GIs". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
4. "US helicopters crash over N Iraq". BBC. 2003-11-16. Retrieved 2015-10-12.
5. "U.S. Apache Shot Down in Baghdad | Fox News". Fox News. 2004-04-11. Retrieved 2015-10-12.