Home Page World War II Armed Forces — Orders of Battle and Organizations Last Updated 12.05.2013
Royal Bulgarian Army
Aircraft
 
Aircraft Type Manufacturer Type Intro Quantity
A.304 Pelikan Aero Vodochody (Czechoslovakia) Bomber Monoplane 1939 1   
Ar 65 Orel Arado Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Advanced Training Biplane 1937 12   
Ar 196A-3 Akula/Rekin Arado Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Recon Seaplane 1943 12   
Ar 96A Sokya Arado Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Advanced Training Monoplane 1941 3   
Ar 96B-2 Sokya Arado Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Advanced Training Monoplane 1940 31   
B.71 Jerav Avia (Czechoslovakia)
(license-built Soviet Tupolev SB-2M-100)
Monoplane Bomber 1939 32   
B.122 Osa Avia (Czechoslovakia) Trainer Biplane 1939 28   
B.135 Lyastovica Avia (Czechoslovakia) Monoplane Fighter 1943 12   
B.534 Dogan Avia (Czechoslovakia) Fighter Biplane 1939 78   
Bf 108B-1 Lebed Messerschmitt (Germany) Utility and Training Monoplane 1940 6   
Bf 109E-4 Strela Messerschmitt (Germany) Fighter Monoplane 1940 10   
Bf 109E-7 Strela Messerschmitt (Germany) Fighter Monoplane 1941 9   
Bf 109G-2 Strela Messerschmitt (Germany) Fighter Monoplane 1943 64 ?
Bf 109G-4 Strela Messerschmitt (Germany) Fighter Monoplane 1943 20 ?
Bf 109G-6 Strela Messerschmitt (Germany) Fighter Monoplane 1944 58   
Bu 131 Ljastovica
Bucker (Germany) Basic Trainer Biplane 1938 12   
Bu 181 Bestmann Bucker (Germany) Trainer Monoplane 1943 15   
D.520 SNCASE (France) [1] via Germany Fighter Monoplane 1943 96   
DAR-3 Garvan I Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria) Trainer Biplane 1936 6   
DAR-3 Garvan II Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria) Trainer Biplane 1937 6   
DAR-3 Garvan III Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria) Recon Biplane 1939 12   
DAR-6(II) Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria) Trainer Biplane (Prototype) 1937 1   
DAR-6A Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria) Advanced Training Biplane 1938 1   
DAR-8 Slavey Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria) Advanced Training Biplane 1937 12   
DAR-9 Siniger Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (Bulgaria)
(License-built Focke-Wulf Fw 44J)
Basic Trainer Biplane 1940 42   
Do 11D Prilep Dornier (Germany) Transport Monoplane 1937 12   
Do 17Ka-1 Uragan Dornier (Germany) (Captured from Yugoslavia) Bomber Monoplane 1941 4   
Do 17Kb-1 Uragan Dornier (Germany) (Captured from Yugoslavia) Bomber Monoplane 1941 11   
Do 17M-1 Urugan Dornier (Germany) Bomber Monoplane 1940 22   
Do 17P Dornier (Germany) Bomber / Photo Recon Monoplane 1940 18   
F.N.305 Fratelli Nardi (Italy) Utility Monoplane 1943 1   
Fi 156 Drozd Gerhard Fieseler Werke (Germany) Liaison 1941 12   
Fw 43 Milka Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau (Germany) Transport Monoplane 1939 1   
Fw 44J Vrabche Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau (Germany) Trainer Biplane 1936 42   
Fw 56 Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau (Germany) Advanced Trainer Monoplane 1936 6   
Fw 58 Golob Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau (Germany) Trainer Monoplane 1937 8   
Fw 189A-2 Oko Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau (Germany) Recon Monoplane 1943 18   
He 45 Shturkel Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (Germany) General-Purpose Biplane 1936 12   
He 51B Sokol Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Advanced Trainer Biplane 1936 12   
He 72 Kanarche Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Trainer Biplane 1938 6   
He 111H-16 Heinkel Flugzeugwerke (Germany) Transport Monoplane 1943 1–2   
Ju 52/3m Sowa Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (Germany)   Transport Monoplane 1938 12   
Ju 87D-5 Shchuka Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (Germany)   Dive Bomber 1944 40   
Ju 87R-2/R-4 Shchuka Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (Germany)   Dive Bomber Trainer 1943 12   
KB-2A Chuchuliga SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Advanced Trainer Biplane 1936 6   
KB-3 Chuchuliga I SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Advanced Trainer Biplane 1937 20   
KB-4 Chuchuliga II SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Utility and Recon Biplane 1938 28   
KB-5 Chuchuliga III SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Utility and Recon Biplane 1939 45   
KB-6 Papagal SFKB [2] (Bulgaria)
(license-built Caprioni Ca.309)
Utility and Recon Monoplane 1940 24   
KB-11 Fazan SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Recon Monoplane 1941 6   
KB-11 Kvazimodo SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Recon Monoplane Ptototype 1940 1   
KB-11A Fazan SFKB [2] (Bulgaria) Recon Monoplane 1942 43   
Letov S-328 Vrana Letov Kbely (Czechoslovakia) Recon Biplane 1939 60   
MB.200 Buhal Aero Vodochody (Czechoslovakia)
(license-built French Marsel Bloch MB-200En-4)
Bomber Monoplane 1939 12   
PWS-26 Yunak Podlaska Wytwórnia Samolotów (Poland)
(fled from Poland to Bulgaria in September 1939)
Trainer Biplane 1939 1   
P.24C Yastreb Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze (Poland) Fighter Monoplane 1938 20   
P.24F Yastreb Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze (Poland) Fighter Monoplane 1939 22   
P.43 Chayka Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze (Poland) Fighter Monoplane 1937 12   
P.24B Yastreb Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze (Poland) Fighter Trainer Monoplane 1938 14   
W34 Darvenitza Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke (Germany)   Transport Monoplane 1944 1+
  [1] SNCASE (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est).
  [2] SFKB (Samoletna Fabrika Kaproni Bulgarski), Bulgarian subsiderary of the Italian manufacturer Società Italiana Caproni.
 
Previous Page