Aircraft of the Finnish Airforce in WWII:

Winter War

Fighters
Type Max # of planes (approx.) Notes
Bristol Bulldog 10
Fokker D XXI 36 Main fighter of the Winter War
Gloster Gladiator 30 Donated by Britain
Fiat G50 Bought from Italy; arrived late in the war
Morane-Saulnier 406 30 Donated by France; arrived late in the war
Bombers
Type Max # of planes (approx.) Notes
Bristol Blenheim 19
Fokker C X 29 Dive bomber
Reconnaissance
Type Max # of planes (approx.) Notes
Blackburn Ripon 15 Sea reconnaissance, obsolete
Junkers 7
Fokker C V E 8

Continuation War

Fighters
Type number of planes Notes
Brewster 239 (F2A-1) 44 Best fighter in the early part of the war
Curtiss 75 A (P-36) 44
Fiat G50 35
Fokker D XXI 70
Gloster Gladiator 16
Hawker Hurricane 9
Morane-Saulnier 406 87 new Moranes were captured and sold by Germans
I-15 5 Captured from enemy in the Winter War
I-153 8 Captured from enemy in the Winter War
I-16 1 Captured from enemy in the Winter War
Bombers
Bristol Blenheim 97
Douglas DC-2 1
DB-3 5 Captured from enemy in the Winter War
SB-2 24 Captured from enemy in the Winter War
Reconnaissance etc.
Fokker CX 23
Koolhoven FK 52 2
Westland Lysander 11
Aircraft acquired later during the war
Type # of aircraft Notes
Fighters
Messerschmitt Bf-109G2/6 159 Only fighter capable of frontline duty 1944
Bombers
Junkers Ju-88A 24
Dornier Do-17Z 15 A gift by Göring in 1942
Reconnaissance etc.
Heinkel He-115 3

Ilmavoimat (airforce) destroyed some 2700 enemy aircraft during the Continuation War. 1600 of these were shot down and the rest were either downed by the flak or destroyed on the ground. 389 own aircraft were destroyed, 86 in the air combat, 66 by enemy flak and the rest on the ground or on transfer missions etc.

In the Lapland War 2 enemy divebombers were shot down. 16 own planes were lost.


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