List of aircraft losses of the Vietnam War

The United States lost 578 Ryan Model 147 Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) (554 over Vietnam and 24 over China).

[3] In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft (3,744 planes,[4] 5,607 helicopters[3] and about 1,000 UAVs.

The USAF sustained approximately 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties during the conflict, which compared favorably with a 2.0 rate in Korea and a 9.7 figure during World War II.

[11][12]: 268 Twenty-one aircraft carriers conducted 86 war cruises and operated 9,178 total days on the line in the Gulf of Tonkin.

532 aircraft were lost in combat and 329 more to operational causes, resulting in the deaths of 401 naval aviators, with 64 airmen reported missing and 179 taken prisoner of war.

Burning American aircraft at Bien Hoa Air Base in 1965
Captured American-made RVNAF warplanes in Saigon's War Remnants Museum
Downed USAF Douglas A-1E, pilot was later awarded the Medal of Honor
Wing of downed USAF warplane at the Vietnam Military History Museum
Soviet specialists inspect the wreckage of the B-52 Stratofortress which was shot down near Hanoi on 23 December 1972.
The wreckage of a US Air force B-52 Stratofortress , shot down over Hanoi in 1972.
Wreckage of downed C-130 Hercules
A U.S. Air Force F-105D Thunderchief shot down
A U.S. aircraft shot down over North Vietnam, 1968
1967 USS Forrestal fire
USAF F-4 Phantom II destroyed during the Tet Offensive
A-5 Vigilante destroyed in the USS Forrestal fire
Burning VNAF C-130 Hercules
RF-4 explodes after being hit by SA-2 missile.
Wreckage of downed UH-1 Iroquois
Wreckage of downed USAF HH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopter
Two downed CH-21s
Downed CH-47 Chinook
RVNAF pilot jumps into the sea from his UH-1 during Operation Frequent Wind
MiG-21 No.4326, which shot down 13 aircraft during the war