:List of active Pakistan Air Force aircraft
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Below is a list of aircraft currently in active service with the Pakistan Air Force.
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! Aircraft
! Manufacturer
! Image
! Origin
! Class
! Role
! Introduced
! data-sort-type="number" | In service
! Total (acquired)
! Notes
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Combat Aircraft
|-
|Chengdu Aerospace Corporation (CAC)
||Jet
|20{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|20{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
|Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC),
CAC
| 200px
|Pakistan,
China
|Jet
|Multirole
|156{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|161{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|JF-17 Block 1 (50){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
JF-17 Block 2 (62){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
JF-17B Block 2 (26){{cite news | url=https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/pac-kamra-rolls-out-final-14-jf-17b-fighters-for-pakistan-air-force | title=PAC Kamra rolls out final 14 JF-17B fighters for Pakistan Air Force |newspaper=Janes.com}}{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
JF-17C Block 3https://quwa.org/pakistan-defence-industry/pakistan-promotes-the-jf-17c-thunder-to-bangladesh-01-20-2025/> (23 delivered, 27 on order){{cite web | url=https://eurasiantimes.com/pakistan-inducts-jf-17-block-3-fighter-jet-into-its-black-panthers/?amp | title=Pakistan Inducts JF-17 Block 3 Fighter Jets Into Its 'Black Panthers' Squadron After Acquiring 'Cutting-Edge' J-10C | date=March 5, 2023}}{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
All Block 1 and 2 JF-17s being upgraded to Block 3 standard.
|-
|General Dynamics,
Lockheed Martin
| 200px
|Jet
||Multirole
|75{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|85{{cite web|url=https://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-16/serials-and-inventory/airforce/PAF/|title=F-16 Aircraft Database – Pakistan|website=www.f-16.ne}}{{better source needed|date=May 2025|reason=WP:USERG, and the database search results are difficult to interpret}}
|F-16AM Block 15 MLU (31){{cite web|url=https://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-16/serials-and-inventory/airforce/PAF/|title=F-16 Aircraft Database – Pakistan|website=www.f-16.ne}}{{cite web | url=https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/inside-combat-history-pakistani-air-forces-f-16-fleet-194591 | title=Inside the Combat History of the Pakistani Air Force's F-16 Fleet | date=30 September 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/f-16.htm | title=F-16 |website=www.globalsecurity.org}}{{cite web | url=https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/51b-proposed-in-sales-upgrades-weapons-for-pakistans-f16s-02396/ | title=Billions to Upgrade and Up-arm Pakistans F-16s |website=www.defenseindustrydaily.com}}{{cite web | url=https://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article2.html | title=F-16.net - the ultimate F-16, F-22, F-35 reference|website=www.f-16.ne }}
|-
| Jet
| Multirole
|58
|135
| Several variants with extensive Project ROSE upgrades. All Mirage IIIs being replaced by JF-17Cs and J-10CEs.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eas4b9xJ5Uo | title=On this day 55 years ago, the first batch of Mirage aircraft was inducted into Pakistan Air Force | website=YouTube | date=8 March 2023 }}{{cite web |url= https://www.flightglobal.com/download?ac=83735|title = World Air Forces 2022|publisher= Flightglobal Insight |year= 2021 |access-date= 24 November 2022|url-access=registration}}{{cite web | url=https://www.france24.com/en/20180429-thrifty-50-pakistan-keeps-ageing-mirages-flying | title=Thrifty at 50: Pakistan keeps ageing Mirages flying | date=29 April 2018 }}
|-
|Dassault Aviation
|France
|Jet
| Attack
| 1970
| 78
| 139
| Several variants with extensive Project ROSE upgrades. All Mirage 5s being replaced by JF-17Cs and J-10CEs.
|-
|CAC
| China
|Jet
| 2002
| 53
| 60https://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/j7f7fighteraircraft/?cf-view
| F-7PGs. All being replaced by JF-17Cs.{{cite web | url=https://timesofislamabad.com/25-Jan-2019/pakistan-air-force-to-replace-entire-f17-fighter-jets | title=Pakistan Air Force to replace entire F-7P fleet with JF17 Fighter Jets | date=25 January 2019 }}
|-
! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Trainer Aircraft
|-
|K-8
|Hongdu,
PAC
| China,
Pakistan
| Jet
| 1994
|58
|60
|K-8 (12)
K-8P (48)
Produced under license by PAC, designated as Karakorum-8.{{cite web|url=https://www.pac.org.pk/k-8 |title=Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra – Karakoram-8 (K-8) Aircraft |publisher=Pac.org.pk |accessdate=2022-09-16}}
|-
|United States
| Jet
| 1962
|69
|73
||T-37B/C.{{cite web|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/08/21/315034/pakistan-to-receive-more-t-37-trainers.html|title=Pakistan to receive more T-37 trainers|last=Govindasamy|first=Siva|date=2008-08-21|work=Flight International|publisher=flightglobal.com|access-date=10 July 2010}} Older T-37s to be eventually replaced with K-8Ps.
|-
| PAC
| 200px
| Pakistan,
Sweden
| 1974
| 145
| 151
| MFI-17 Mushshak (115)
Super Mushshak (30)
Some MFI-17 Mushshaks to be upgraded to Super Mushshak standard.[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2004/2004-09%20-%202371.html?search=Pakistan%20JF-17 air force | combat aircraft | super lynx | 2004 | 09–2371 | Flight Archive]. Flightglobal.com (22 November 2004). Retrieved on 2012-07-01.
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Strategic Airlift Transporter/Aerial Refueler
|-
| Jet
| Strategic Airlift Transporter/Aerial Refueler
| 4{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
| 4
| Il-78MP. Dual-role aerial refeulers and freighters. Ex-Ukrainian Air Force.{{cite web|url=https://www.defenseworld.net/news/29831/Ukrainian_Firm_Signs_Contract_to_Repair_Pakistani_IL_78_Refueling_Aircraft#.YhhL0-hBxPY|title=Ukrainian Firm Signs Contract to Repair Pakistani IL-78 Refueling Aircraft|date=17 June 2021 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.key.aero/view_news.asp?ID=1310&thisSection=military%7B%7BPERIOD%7D%7D|title=Pakistan's Midas touch|last=Parsons|first=Gary|date=21 December 2009|publisher=Keypublishing|access-date=22 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111071232/http://www.key.aero/view_news.asp?ID=1310&thisSection=military%7B%7BPERIOD%7D%7D|archive-date=11 January 2012}}http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3850339 {{dead link|date=July 2012}}[http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Pakistan-Receiving-IL-78-Refueling-aircraft-05191/ Pakistan Receiving IL-78 Refueling aircraft]. Defenseindustrydaily.com (8 December 2008). Retrieved on 2012-07-01.[http://www.defencetalk.com/paf-to-acquire-ilyushin-il-78-aircraft-by-2010-21071/ PAF to Acquire Ilyushin Il-78 aircraft by 2010 | Aviation & Air Force News at DefenceTalk]. Defencetalk.com (11 August 2009). Retrieved on 2012-07-01.
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Transport Aircraft
|-
|Lockheed Martin
|United States
| Turboprop
| Medium transport
| 1963{{citation needed |date=May 2025}}
| 18{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| C-130B (5){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
C-130E (9){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
C-130H (4){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
Seven purchased second-hand from Belgium.{{cite web |url=https://urdu.dunyanews.tv/index.php/ur/Business/731170/ | title=C-130 aircraft bought from Belgium inducted into PAF fleet |date=11 June 2023 |website=Dunya News}}
|-
|Lockheed Martin
|
|United States
| Turboprop
| Medium transport
|
| 1{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| L-100-20 (1){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
| Cessna
|
| United States
| Turboprop
| Light transport
|
| 2{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| 208B (2){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
| Cessna
|
| United States
| Turboprop
| Light transport
|
| 2{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| 560XL (2){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
| CN-235
|
| Turboprop
| Light transport
|
| 4{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| CN235M-220 (4){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
| M600
|
| United States
| Turboprop
| Light transport
|
| 2{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
|
|-
| Jet
| Light transport
| 6{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
|
|-
|
| United States
| Turboprop
| Light transport
|
| 2{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| King Air 350i (2){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
|Y-12
|Harbin Aircraft Industry Group
| 200px
| China
| Turboprop
| Light transport
| 1993{{citation needed |date=May 2025}}
| 3{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
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| Y-12II (3){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
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| A319
| Airbus
| 200px
|France
| Jet
| Personnel transport
| July 2022{{citation needed |date=May 2025}}
| 1{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
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|
|-
| Dassault Aviation
|
| France
| Jet
| Personnel transport
|
| 1{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
| 20E (1){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|-
| 200px
|United States
| Jet
| Personnel transport
|
| 2{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
|
|Gulfstream IV-SP (2){{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
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|Saab
| Sweden
| Turboprop
| Personnel transport
| 2008{{citation needed |date=May 2025}}
| 6{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft
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| Saab
| Sweden
| Turboprop
| AEW&C || 2011 || 9 || 10 || Saab 2000 equipped with the Saab Erieye AEW&C system.{{cite web | url=https://www.saab.com/products/saab-2000-erieye-aewc | title=Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C | Saab }}{{cite web |url= https://quwa.org/2024/03/24/pakistans-push-to-replace-legacy-air-platforms-2/ |title = PAKISTAN'S PUSH TO REPLACE LEGACY AIR PLATFORMS |date= 24 March 2024 |access-date= 10 April 2024}}{{cite web |url= https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/pakistan-saab-erieye-aewc/ |title = Pakistan Boosts Saab 2000 'Erieye' AEW&C Fleet, Nine Aircraft Currently |date= 29 January 2024 |access-date=2024-09-30|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240930041218/https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/pakistan-saab-erieye-aewc/|archive-date=2024-09-30|url-status=live}}
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Electronic Warfare Aircraft
|-
| Dassault Aviation
|France
| Jet
| 1986
| 3
| 3
| DA-20F{{sfn|The International Institute for Strategic Studies|2025|p=289}}. Modified EW version of the Dassault Falcon 20 business jet.{{cite web |url= https://www.flightglobal.com/download?ac=98881 |title = World Air Forces 2024|publisher= Flightglobal Insight |year= 2024 |access-date= 10 April 2024|url-access=registration}}
|-
| ZDK-03
| China
| Turboprop
| EW, ESM, ECM || 2011 || 4 || 4
| Based on Y-8F-600. Reassigned to EW, ESM, ECM role from AEW&C role in 2024 after removal of AESA radar radome and AEW&C equipment due to compatibility issues and standardization of PAF's AEW&C platforms with additional Saab 2000 AEW&C aircraft.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
|-
| 200px
| Canada
| Jet
| EW, ESM, ECM || 2022 || 1 || 1
| Purchased in 2022 in business jet configuration. Being converted into EW, ESM, ECM Stand-Off Jamming (HAVA-SOJ) platform by Turkey's Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and Aselsan in 2025.https://www.sanalsavunma.com/turkey-hava-soj-electronic-warfare-system/https://turdef.com/article/turkiye-and-pakistan-cooperate-on-ew-aircrafthttps://quwa.org/pakistan-air-force-news/pakistan-to-convert-a-bombardier-jet-into-an-electronic-warfare-aircraft/{{Cite web|url=https://www.currentaffairs.com.pk/new-aircraft-for-pakistan-air-force/|title=New Aircraft for Pakistan Air Force|date=2 January 2022|accessdate=1 April 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://www.airliners.net/photo/Pakistan-Air-Force/Bombardier-Global-6000-BD-700-1A10/7022381?qsp=eJwtjbEOwjAQQ3%2BlupkJJIZuZWClAz9wulgQtTTR3UkQVf13ksJm%2B1n2SpIWx8fvJYN6MrDKkw6UWfll1K80obyThqpp5Cma89INUbtrUkFtWlK/lEoDOwYRZEf45zcN0IZgso8%2B2smxSej4c6dztSFannlfgXOcadu%2BIDkzZg%3D%3D | title=Aviation Photo #7022381: Bombardier Global 6000 (BD-700-1A10) - Pakistan - Air Force }}
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles / Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
|-
| Baykar
| 200px
| Turkey
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2023 || 7
|7||{{Cite web|url=https://www.icpsnet.org/comments/pakistan-acquisition-of-turkish-drones-091023|title=Pakistan’s Acquisition of Turkish Drones and India’s Options | Product News|first=Yeni|last=Şafak|website=International Centre for peace studies|accessdate=1 April 2024}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/pakistan-air-force-showcases-new-fleet-of-turkish-drones/3092071 |title=Pakistan Air Force showcases new fleet of Turkish drones |date=2023-12-25 |author=Riyaz ul Khaliq }}
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| Burraq
| NESCOM
|Pakistan
| MALE UCAV, UAV
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2014 || 13
|13|| Used jointly with Pakistan Army.{{cite journal|last1=Bokhari|first1=Farhan|last2=Hardy|first2=James|title=Pakistan successfully fires missile from indigenous UAV|journal=Jane's Defence Weekly|date=12 March 2015|url=http://www.janes.com/article/49938/pakistan-successfully-fires-missile-from-indigenous-uav|access-date=19 April 2015}}
|-
|Global Industrial Defence Solutions (GIDS)
| 200px
|Pakistan
| MALE UCAV, UAV
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2021 || Unknown
|-
|Anka
|Turkish Aerospace Industries,
NESCOM
| Turkey,
Pakistan
| MALE UCAV, UAV
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2021 || Unknown
|Unknown|| Contract signed between TAI and NESCOM in August 2021 for local production of Anka UCAVs with technology transfer to Pakistan.https://www.defenseworld.net/news/30279/Pakistan_Will_Start_Producing_Components_.html {{Bare URL inline|date=September 2022}}
|-
|Baykar
| Turkey
| MALE UCAV, UAV
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2022 || Unknown
|Unknown||[https://pakstrategic.com/2022/01/08/pakistan-procures-bayraktar-tb-2-drone/] {{Bare URL inline|date=September 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/pakistan-integrating-tb2-into-air-defence-network|title=Pakistan integrating TB2 into air-defence network|website=Janes.com|accessdate=1 April 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.currentaffairs.com.pk/pakistan-operationalises-bayraktar-tb-2-male-ucav-for-paf/|title=Pakistan Operationalises Bayraktar TB-2 MALE UCAV for PAF|date=10 January 2022|accessdate=1 April 2024}}
|-
| Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group
| China
| MALE UCAV, UAV
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2021 || 3
|-
|China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
| China
| MALE UCAV, UAV
| Strike, Reconnaissance || 2021 || 12-24
|12-24|| CH-4A and CH-4B.{{cite web | url=https://pakstrategic.com/pakistan-procures-casc-rainbow-cai-hong-ch-4-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav/ | title=Pakistan procures CASC Rainbow (CAI HONG) CH-4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) | date=29 January 2021 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/09/lifting-veil-pakistans-chinese-ucavs.html|title=Lifting The Veil - Pakistan's Chinese UCAVs|accessdate=1 April 2024}}
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|GIDS
| Pakistan
| UAV
| Reconnaissance || 2012 || 6
|6||{{cite news|title=IDEX: Explosion of UAVs at Exhibit|url=http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130219/DEFREG04/302190021/IDEX-Explosion-UAVs-Exhibit|publisher=Defense News|date=19 February 2013|access-date=14 April 2013|archive-date=8 July 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130708172437/http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130219/DEFREG04/302190021/IDEX-Explosion-UAVs-Exhibit|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130219/DEFREG04/302190021/IDEX-Explosion-UAVs-Exhibit |title=IDEX: Explosion of UAVs at Exhibit | Defense News | defensenews.com |website=defensenews.com |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410180412/http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130219/DEFREG04/302190021/IDEX-Explosion-UAVs-Exhibit |archive-date=10 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}
|-
|SATUMA
|
| Pakistan
| UAV
| Reconnaissance || 2010 || 46
|-
|Selex ES,
PAC
|Italy,
Pakistan
| UAV
| Reconnaissance || 2007 || 26
|26|| Produced under license by PAC since 2008 with technology transfer to Pakistan.{{cite web|url=https://www.pac.org.pk/amf |title=Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra – Aircraft Manufacturing Factory |publisher=Pac.org.pk |accessdate=2022-09-16}}{{cite web | url=https://www.flightglobal.com/first-galileo-avionica-falco-uav-set-for-delivery-launch-customer-remains-undisclosed/71703.article | title=First Galileo Avionica Falco UAV set for delivery, launch customer remains undisclosed }}
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! style="align: center; background: lavender;" colspan="10" | Helicopters
|-
| AW139
| Italy
| SAR, Utility || 2018 || 14 || 14
| AW139MAir Forces Monthly, Issue 362, May 2018, page 28{{Cite news |url=https://quwa.org/2018/12/17/ideas-2018-pakistan-air-force-updates-2/|title=Pakistan air force updates|publisher=quwa.org |date=17 December 2018 |access-date=17 December 2018}}
|-
| Mi-17
| Mil
| Russia
| Helicopter
| Transport, Utility || 2010 || Unknown || Unknown
|Mil Mi-17-1{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/18/local16.htm |access-date=14 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725130620/http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/18/local16.htm |archive-date=25 July 2008 |title=KARACHI: Roll-out of MI-171 helicopters -DAWN – Local; March 18, 2008 }}[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/air-force-equipment.htm Pakistan Air Force Equipment]. Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-01.
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= Sources =
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- {{Cite book |author=The International Institute for Strategic Studies |title=The Military Balance 2025 |date=2025 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-041-04967-8 }}
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External links
- [http://www.paf.gov.pk/ Pakistan Air Force – official website]
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