List of maritime patrol aircraft

The following is a list of maritime patrol aircraft, which are sometimes referred to as Maritime reconnaissance, coastal reconnaissance or patrol bombers depending on the service and the time period, and are characterized by their use in controlling sea lanes.

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Type	Country	Date	Status	No.	Notes
AD Flying Boat	UK	1916		27
Aichi H9A	Japan	1940	retired	31
Airbus A319 MPA	France	1995	In service	0	^[1]^{[notes 1]}
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley	UK	1936	retired	1,814
ATR 42 MP Surveyor	Italy	1984	In service
ATR 72 MP	Italy	1988	In service
ATR 72 ASW	France	1988	In service
Avro Anson	UK	1935	retired	6,688	^{[notes 2]}
Avro Lancaster GR.III/MR.III/10MR/MP	UK & Canada	1941	retired	1 (GR.III/MR.III) 70-75 (10MR/MP)	^{[notes 3]}
Avro Shackleton	UK	1949	retired	185
B class blimp	USA	1917	retired	20
BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4	UK	2004	cancelled 2010	9
Beechcraft King Air	USA	1963	In service
Basler BT-67	USA	1990	In service
Beriev Be-6	USSR	1943	retired	123
Beriev Be-10	USSR	1956	retired	28
Beriev Be-12	USSR	1960	In service	143
Beriev Be-42	Russia	1986	In service	2
Beriev MBR-2	USSR	1931	retired
Blackburn Iris	UK	1926	retired	5
Blackburn Perth	UK	1933	retired	4
Blohm & Voss BV 138	Germany	1937	retired	297
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger	United States	1942	retired	1
Boeing 737 Surveiller	USA	1967	In service
Boeing P-8 Poseidon	USA	2009	In service	155	^[2]
Bombardier DHC-8 MPA/MSA variants	Canada	2007	In service	26
Breguet 521	France	1933		37	^{[notes 4]}
Breguet Alizé	France	1956		89
Breguet Atlantic	France	1965		115
Britten-Norman Defender/Islander	UK	1970
C class blimp	USA	1918	retired	10
C-Star class blimp	UK	1918		10
CAMS 55	France	1928		112
Canadair CP-107 Argus	Canada	1957	retired	33
Canadian Vickers Vancouver	Canada	1929	retired	6
CANT Z.501	Italy	1934		200
CANT Z.506	Italy	1935		320+
Caproni Ca.314-SC	Italy	1940		14
CASA C-212 MPA	Spain	1971		12	^[1]
CASA/IPTN CN-235 MPA/HC-144 Ocean Sentry	Spain & Indonesia	1983		24+	^[1]
Chyetverikov MDR-6	USSR	1937		27
Coastal class blimp	UK	1916		35
Consolidated P2Y	USA	1929	retired	78
Consolidated PBY Catalina	USA	1935		3,305	^{[notes 5]}
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado	USA	1937	retired	217
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator	USA	1939		976
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer	USA	1943	retired	739
Convair P5Y	USA	1950		2
Curtiss Model H	USA	1914		478
Curtiss HS-1L & HS-2L	USA	1917		1,178~
D class blimp	USA	1920		6
Dassault Falcon 20G	France	1963		46
Dassault Falcon 50M	France	1976
Dassault Falcon 900 MSA	France	1984
Diamond DA42 Guardian	Austria	2002
Donnet-Denhaut flying boat	France	1915		1,085~
Dornier Wal	Germany	1922		250+
Dornier Do 24	Germany	1937		279
Dornier 228	Germany	1981
Douglas B-18 Bolo/Digby	USA	1935		370
Douglas/BSAS Turbo Dakota	USA	1991		5
Douglas PD-1	USA	1923		25
CASA C-295 MPA	Spain	1997
Embraer EMB 111 Bandeirante	Brazil	1968		16+
Embraer R-99	Brazil	2001		16+
P-99 (EMB-145MP)	Brazil	2003
Fairey Gannet	UK	1949		303
FBA Types A, B, C & S	France	1913		1,000~
FBA Type H	France	1915		2,000~
FBA Type S	France	1917
Felixstowe F.2	UK	1916		175
Felixstowe F.3	UK	1917		182
Felixstowe F5L/Curtiss F5L	UK & US	1918		227	^{[notes 6]}
Fiat RS.14	Italy	1939		188
Focke-Wulf Fw 200	Germany	1937		276
Fokker F27 200-MAR	Netherlands	1955			^{[notes 7]}
Fokker F27 Maritime Enforcer	Netherlands	1955
Fokker T.IV	Netherlands	1927		33
Fokker T.VIII	Netherlands	1938		36
Friedrichshafen FF.60	Germany	1918		1
Gotha WD.9	Germany	1914		1
Gotha WD.27	Germany	1918		1
Grumman AF Guardian	USA	1945		389
Grumman Tracker	USA	1952		1,284
Hall PH	USA	1929		24
Harbin SH-5	China	1976		6
Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod	UK	1967		51
Hiro H4H	Japan	1931		47
IAI 1124N Sea Scan	Israel	1977		4
IAI Heron	Israel	2005			UAV
Ilyushin Il-38	USSR	1967		58
Junkers Ju 290	Germany	1942		65
K-class blimp	USA	1938		134
Kawanishi H3K	Japan	1930		5
Kawanishi H6K Mavis	Japan	1936		215
Kawanishi H8K Emily	Japan	1941		131
Kawasaki P-1	Japan	2007		10
Kawasaki P-2J	Japan	1966		83	^{[notes 8]}
Keystone PK-1	USA	1930		18
Kyushu Q1W	Japan	1943		153
Lockheed Hudson	USA	1938		2,941
Lockheed PV-1 Ventura	USA	1940		2,511
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon	USA	1943		535
Lockheed P-2 Neptune	USA	1945		1,036
Lockheed P-3 Orion	USA	1959		757	^{[notes 9]}
Lockheed P-7	USA	2000		0
Lockheed S-3 Viking	USA	1972		188
Lohner L	Austria-Hungary	1915		100+
Loire 70	France	1933		8
M class blimp	USA	1944		4
Macchi M.C.99	Italy	1937		1
Mann Egerton Type B	UK	1916		10
Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.11	Norway	1931		29
Martin PM-1	USA	1930		30
Martin PM-2	USA	1931		27
Martin P2M	USA	1929		1
Martin P3M	USA	1931		19
Martin P4M Mercator	USA	1946		46	^{[notes 10]}
Martin P5M Marlin	USA	1948		285
Martin P6M SeaMaster	United States	1955		12
Martin PBM Mariner	USA	1939		1,285
Myasishchev 3M/3MD	USSR	1956		93	^{[notes 11]}
Naval Aircraft Factory PN	USA	1922		15
Nord 1402 Noroit	France	1949		25
Norman Thompson N.T.4	UK	1916		26
North Sea class blimp	UK	1917		14
Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton	USA	2013		2	Drones
PZL M28B Bryza	Poland	1984		11
Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H	Yugoslavia	1938		19
Rohrbach Ro IV	Denmark & UK	1925		2
Royal Aircraft Factory C.E.1	UK	1918		2
Saab Swordfish MPA	Sweden	2016			^[3]^[4]
Saro Lerwick	UK	1938		21
Saro London	UK	1934		31
Savoia-Marchetti S.55	Italy	1924		243+
Savoia-Marchetti S.59	Italy	1925		240+
Savoia-Marchetti SM.62	Italy	1926		64
Shaanxi Y-8F, Q & X	China	1984
Shaanxi KQ-200	China	2015
Shin Meiwa PS-1	Japan	1967		25
Short Type 184	UK	1915		936
Short Empire	UK	1936		9	^{[notes 12]}
Short Rangoon	UK	1930		6
Short S.26/M	UK	1939		3
Short Seaford	UK	1944		10
Short Seavan	UK	1976
Short Shetland	UK	1944		2
Short Singapore III	UK	1934		37
Short Sunderland	UK	1937		777
Submarine Scout class blimp	UK	1915		60
Submarine Scout Pusher class blimp	UK	1917		6
Submarine Scout Twin class blimp	UK	1918		13
Submarine Scout Zero class blimp	UK	1916		77
Supermarine Scapa	UK	1932		15
Supermarine Southampton	UK	1925		83
Supermarine Stranraer	UK	1934		57	^{[notes 13]}
Tupolev Tu-16T/PL/R/RM/SP	USSR	1952		1,509	^{[notes 14]}
Tupolev Tu-95MR	USSR	1961		4
Tupolev Tu-142	USSR	1968		100
Vickers Warwick GR Mk.II and V	UK	1939		328
Vickers Wellington GR.Mk.VIII/XI/XII/XIII/XIV	UK	1936		2,230
Yokosuka H5Y	Japan	1936		20
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.I	Germany	1915		1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.II	Germany	1916		1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.III	Germany	1917		1
Zeppelin-Lindau (Dornier) Rs.IV	Germany	1918		1

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Notes

[N 1]
Proposal only, flight date is of airframe only
[N 2]
Production total of Mk.Is- includes trainers and bombers
[N 3]
Built in both countries, heavily modified in Canada
[N 4]
Developed from Short Calcutta
[N 5]
620 Catalinas built in Canada and 24 in USSR
[N 6]
built in both countries, airframe by Curtiss, hull by Porte in the UK.)
[N 7]
unarmed variant
[N 8]
turboprop Lockheed P-2
[N 9]
Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is the Canadian designation for same aircraft with the Canadian Forces
[N 10]
Most diverted to other purposes
[N 11]
all variants
[N 12]
Two BOAC examples converted for the RAF with full weapons fit including fuselage depth charge racks and tail and top turrets; five Qantas Empire Airways/BOAC examples converted for the Royal Australian Air Force with makeshift weapons; and two stock TEAL examples used for visual patrols by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
[N 13]
More built in Canada than UK
[N 14]
Production figure includes all variants.

Citations

[1]
Airbus Military - Surveillance & Security Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
[2]
"Boeing Delivers First P-8A Poseidon to New Zealand".
[3]
"Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft". Saab AB. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
[4]
Khan, Bilal (2016-02-18). "How Saab is looking to thrive in the global ISR market". Quwa Defence News.

Bibliography

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

[proposal-2] [N 1]
Proposal only, flight date is of airframe only

[3] [N 2]
Production total of Mk.Is- includes trainers and bombers

[4] [N 3]
Built in both countries, heavily modified in Canada

[6] [N 4]
Developed from Short Calcutta

[7] [N 5]
620 Catalinas built in Canada and 24 in USSR

[8] [N 6]
built in both countries, airframe by Curtiss, hull by Porte in the UK.)

[9] [N 7]
unarmed variant

[10] [N 8]
turboprop Lockheed P-2

[11] [N 9]
Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is the Canadian designation for same aircraft with the Canadian Forces

[12] [N 10]
Most diverted to other purposes

[13] [N 11]
all variants

[16] [N 12]
Two BOAC examples converted for the RAF with full weapons fit including fuselage depth charge racks and tail and top turrets; five Qantas Empire Airways/BOAC examples converted for the Royal Australian Air Force with makeshift weapons; and two stock TEAL examples used for visual patrols by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

[17] [N 13]
More built in Canada than UK

[18] [N 14]
Production figure includes all variants.

[airbusmilitary-1] [1]
Airbus Military - Surveillance & Security Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine

[5] [2]
"Boeing Delivers First P-8A Poseidon to New Zealand".

[saabsword-14] [3]
"Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft". Saab AB. Retrieved 2017-09-26.

[sword2016a-15] [4]
Khan, Bilal (2016-02-18). "How Saab is looking to thrive in the global ISR market". Quwa Defence News.

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