Liaison aircraft

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.

(Fuerza Aérea Argentina)

• Piper Chincul PA-28 Dakota
• Piper Chincul PA-34 Seneca
• Cessna C-182
• Beechcraft TC-12B Huron

• Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 Fazan

Nazi period:

• Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
• Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
• Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu

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–)

• Lublin R-XIII
• RWD-14 Czapla
• PZL Ł.2

• 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)

• Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik ("Crop Duster")

• 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

• Pilatus PC-6

• de Havilland Dominie
• Westland Lysander
• Taylorcraft Auster AOP

• Liaison pilot

• 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