The Sri Lanka Air Force is the air arm and the youngest of the three components of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. It was founded in 1951 as the Royal Ceylon Air Force with the assistance of the Royal Air
Short Sunderland Mark IIIs of No. 230 Squadron RAF at RAF Koggala in Ceylon.
A Hawker Siddeley HS 748 used by the SLAF, now displayed at Koggala Airport
A SIAI-Marchetti SF260 used for ground attack in the early days of the civil war.
A FMA IA 58 Pucará ground-attack aircraft used in the civil war in the early 1990s.
The Chengdu J-7 is a Chinese fighter aircraft. It is a license-built derivative of the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, and thus shares many similarities with that aircraft. The J-7 is armed with infra
Sri Lanka Air Force
…elements associated with the JVP. With resumption of hostilities with the LTTE, to increase its attack capability, in 1991 the SLAF acquired four F-7 Skybolts, three FT-7s and two Shenyang J-5s from China. Later in 1993 the first of three Mil Mi-17 helicopter transports were acquired along with four FMA IA…
A PLAAF J-7I at the Beijing Military museum
A PLAAF J-7III in the 1990s
Albanian Air Force Chengdu F-7A