| Fighters | ||
| Type | Max # of planes (approx.) | Notes |
| Bristol Bulldog | 10 | |
| Fokker D XXI | 36 | Main fighter of the Winter War |
| Gloster Gladiator | 30 | Donated by Britain |
| Fiat G50 | 35 | Bought from Italy; arrived late in the war |
| Morane-Saulnier 406 | 30 | Donated by France; arrived late in the war |
| Bombers | ||
| Type | Max # of planes (approx.) | Notes |
| Bristol Blenheim | 19 | |
| Fokker CX | 29 | Dive bomber |
| Reconnaissance | ||
| Type | Max # of planes (approx.) | Notes |
| Blackburn Ripon | 15 | Sea reconnaissance, obsolete |
| Junkers | 7 | Obsolete |
| Fokker CVE | 8 | Divebomber |
| Fighters | ||
| Type | number of planes | Notes |
| 44 | Best fighter in the early part of the war | |
| Curtiss 75 A (P-36) | 44 | |
| Fiat G50 | 35 | |
| Fokker D XXI | 70 | |
| Gloster Gladiator | 16 | |
| Hawker Hurricane | 9 | |
| Morane-Saulnier 406 | 87 | new Moranes were captured and sold by Germans |
| I-15 | 5 | Captured from enemy in the Winter War |
| I-153 | 8 | Captured from enemy in the Winter War |
| I-16 | 1 | Captured from enemy in the Winter War |
| Bombers | ||
| Bristol Blenheim | 97 | |
| Douglas DC-2 | 1 | |
| DB-3 | 5 | Captured from enemy in the Winter War |
| SB-2 | 24 | Captured from enemy in the Winter War |
| Reconnaissance etc. | ||
| Fokker CX | 23 | |
| Koolhoven FK 52 | 2 | |
| Westland Lysander | 11 | |
| Aircraft acquired later during the war | ||
| Type | # of aircraft | Notes |
| Fighters | ||
| Messerschmitt Bf-109G2/6 | 159 | Only fighter capable of frontline duty 1944 |
| Bombers | ||
| Junkers Ju-88A | 24 | |
| Dornier Do-17Z | 15 | A gift from Göring in 1942 |
| Reconnaissance etc. | ||
| Heinkel He-115 | 3 | |
Finnish forces destroyed at least 510 (100 more probable) enemy aircraft during the Winter War. 190 were accounted to fighters and rest to AA-fire.
Finnish forces destroyed some 2700 enemy aircraft during the Continuation War. 1600 of these were shot down and the rest were either downed by the flak or destroyed on the ground. 389 own aircraft were destroyed, 86 in the air combat, 66 by enemy flak and the rest on the ground or on transfer missions etc.
In the Lapland War 2 enemy divebombers were shot down. 16 own planes were lost.
The background is the insignia of the Ilmavoimat between 1918-1944. It had nothing to do with Nazi swastika and it derives from the personal symbol of Swedish Count von Rosen, who donated the first plane of the Ilmavoimat in 1918. That is before the Nazi party was founded in Germany. After WWII the bad name the Nazis had given to the symbol forced it to be changed to the present round insignia.