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.

Consolidated PBY Catalina maritime patrol aircraft on patrol

Maritime patrol aircraft

Type	Country	Date	No.	Notes
AD Flying Boat	UK	1916	27
Aichi H9A	Japan	1940	31
Airbus A319 MPA	France	1995	0	[1][notes 1]
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley	UK	1936	1,814
ATR 42 MP Surveyor	Italy	1984
ATR 72 MP	Italy	1988
ATR 72 ASW	France	1988
Avro Anson	UK	1935	6,688	[notes 2]
Avro Lancaster GR.III/MR.III/10MR/MP	UK & Canada	1941		[notes 3]
Avro Shackleton	UK	1949	185
B class blimp	USA	1917	20
BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4	UK	2010	9
Beechcraft King Air	USA	1963
Basler BT-67	USA	1990
Beriev Be-6	USSR	1943	123
Beriev Be-10	USSR	1956	28
Beriev Be-12	USSR	1960	143
Beriev Be-42	Russia	1986	2
Beriev MBR-2	USSR	1931
Blackburn Iris	UK	1926	5
Blackburn Perth	UK	1933	4
Blohm & Voss BV 138	Germany	1937	297
Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger	United States	1942	1
Boeing 737 Surveiller	USA	1967
Boeing P-8 Poseidon	USA	2009	100
Bombardier DHC-8 MPA/MSA variants	Canada	2007	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	10
C-Star class blimp	UK	1918	10
CAMS 55	France	1928	112
Canadair CP-107 Argus	Canada	1957	33
Canadian Vickers Vancouver	Canada	1929	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	78
Consolidated PBY Catalina	USA	1935	3,305	[notes 5]
Consolidated PB2Y Coronado	USA	1937	217
Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator	USA	1939	976
Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer	USA	1943	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 Do 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 P-99	Brazil	1999
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
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 State	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	Sweden	2016		[2][3]
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
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

References

Notes

Proposal only, flight date is of airframe only
Production total of Mk.Is- includes trainers and bombers
Built in both countries, heavily modified in Canada
Developed from Short Calcutta
620 Catalinas built in Canada and 24 in USSR
built in both countries, airframe by Curtiss, hull by Porte in the UK.)
unarmed variant
turboprop Lockheed P-2
Lockheed CP-140 Aurora is the Canadian designation for same aircraft with the Canadian Forces
Most diverted to other purposes
all variants
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.
More built in Canada than UK
Production figure includes all variants.

Citations

Airbus Military - Surveillance & Security Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
"Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft". Saab AB. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
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. Transport Press. 115 (3668): 29–32 & 37.
Gaines, Mike (23 April 1983). "Inshore Maritime Market". Flight International. Transport Press. 123 (3859): 1115–1122.

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

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

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

[5] Developed from Short Calcutta

[6] 620 Catalinas built in Canada and 24 in USSR

[7] uilt in both countries, airframe by Curtiss, hull by Porte in the UK.)

[8] unarmed variant

[9] turboprop Lockheed P-2

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

[11] Most diverted to other purposes

[12] variants

[15] 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.

[16] More built in Canada than UK

[17] Production figure includes all variants.

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

[saabsword-13] "Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft". Saab AB. Retrieved 2017-09-26.

[sword2016a-14] Khan, Bilal (2016-02-18). "How Saab is looking to thrive in the global ISR market". Quwa Defence News.