Liaison aircraft
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Light aircraft for artillery observation and military communications
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A liaison aircraft (also called an army cooperation aircraft) is a small, usually unarmed aircraft primarily used by military forces for artillery observation or transporting commanders and messages.
Operation
[edit ]The concept developed before World War II and included also battlefield reconnaissance, air ambulance, column control, light cargo delivery and similar duties.[1] Able to operate from small, unimproved fields under primitive conditions, with STOL capabilities, most liaison aircraft were developed from, or were later used as general aviation aircraft. Both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters can perform liaison duties.
Use by country
[edit ]Argentina
[edit ]Bulgaria
[edit ]Germany
[edit ]Nazi period:
- Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
- Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
- Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu
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Japan
[edit ]Imperial period:
- Kokusai Ki-76 (Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, 1942–1945)
- Tachikawa Ki-36 (Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, 1938–1945)
Postwar period:
- LR-1 (Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, 1967–2016)
- LC-90 (Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, 1974–)
Poland
[edit ]Portugal
[edit ]
- Piper L-21 Super Cub (Portuguese Army, 1952–1957 and Portuguese Air Force, 1957–1976)
- Auster D.5/160 (Portuguese Air Force, 1961–1974)
- Dornier Do 27 (Portuguese Air Force, 1961–1979)
- Reims-Cessna FTB-337, (Portuguese Air Force, 1974–2007)
Soviet Union
[edit ]- Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik ("Crop Duster")
Sweden
[edit ]- Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub as Flygplan 51, 1958–1974
- Dornier Do 27 as Flygplan 53, 1962–1991
- Scottish Aviation Bulldog as Flygplan 61C, 1972–1989
Switzerland
[edit ]United Kingdom
[edit ]United States
[edit ]See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ LePore, Herbert P. (1990). "Eyes in the Sky: A History of Liaison Aircraft and Their Use in World War II". Army History (17): 30–39. ISSN 1546-5330.
External links
[edit ]- www.als-cannonfield.com – The Alamo Liaison Squadron is a group dedicated to restoring and flying liaison aircraft.
- Lbirds.com – Website with resources, information, and models of US WWII liaison aircraft
- Lbirds – Forum open to discussion about liaison aircraft
