Royal Canadian Air Force

The Canadian Air Force sent a couple of 425sq CF-188s to Europe to join the Frisian Flag exercise in 2022.

(Leeuwarden, Frank Noort)

Some CH-146 Griffons are painted bright yellow, just like many aircraft in the Canadian Air Force tasked for search and rescue.

(Trenton, Rob Sowald)

The new kid on the block, the Airbus CC-295 Kingfisher is the new Fixed Wing SAR aircraft. It was a very welcome visitor to the RIAT in 2024.

(Fairford, Fred van Horrik)

Squadrons on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts operate the Canadian version of the EH101 helicopter, dubbed CH-149 Cormorant in Canadian service.

(Ottawa, Wim Sonneveld)

CFB Greenwood in Nova Scotia is the main operating base for the Canadian CP-140 Aurora fleet. This Aurora however, was pictured during a counternarcotics deployment to the Dutch Caribbean.

(Hato, Bea Moedt)

The CT-156 Harvard II is the Canadian variant of the T-6 Texan II and used for pilot instruction at Moose Jaw.

(London, Rob Sowald)

This CH-146 Griffon is assigned to 427sq, the RCAF special operations squadron at Petawawa.

(Pettawa, Wim Sonneveld)

The CH-47 Chinook is known as CH-147 at the RCAF.

(Trenton, Rob Sowald)

The CC-150 Polaris aircraft are to be replaced by the Airbus CC-330 Husky in the future.

(Eindhoven, Oscar Vis)

Canada is one of the largest users of the Lockheed Hercules in the world. This particular example is a CC-130J Hercules.

(Eindhoven, Frank Noort)

In November 2020, the Department of National Defence (DND) awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract to modify three King Air 350ERs into intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for the country’s special operations forces. These were delivered In 2024. .

(Trenton, Galen Burrows)

Canada's strategic work horse is the CC-177 Globemaster, five of which serve with 429sqn at Trenton and can be encountered all over the planet.

(Köln-Bonn, Nico van der Steen)

The Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone is a twin-engine, multi-role shipborne helicopter. A military variant of the Sikorsky S-92, the CH-148 is designed for shipboard operations and replaced the CH-124 Sea King, which was in Canadian Armed Forces operation from 1963 to 2018.

(De Kooy, Frank Noort)

Seeing an operational military Twin Ottter is quite special. They are based at Yellowknife which is in the North of Canada.

(Trenton, Rob Sowald)