Editing Antonov An-26 (section)

====Former military operators====
;{{AFG}}
* [[Afghan Air Force]] – Used until 1977,<ref name=":1" /> all remaining aircraft retired June 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-12-26 |title=AAF retires An-26 aircraft after 30 years of use |url=https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Article/219822/aaf-retires-an-26-aircraft-after-30-years-of-use/https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Article/219822/aaf-retires-an-26-aircraft-after-30-years-of-use/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=U.S. Air Forces Central |language=en-US}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marion |first=Forrest L. |date=2010 |title=The Destruction and Rebuilding of the Afghan Air Force, 1989-2009 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26275885 |journal=Air Power History |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=22–31 |jstor=26275885 |issn=1044-016X}}</ref> One of their An-26 which defected to Pakistan, is preserved at PAF Museum, [[Karachi]].
;{{BGD}}
* [[Bangladesh Air Force]]
;{{BEN}}
* [[Benin Air Force]] – two<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wheeler |first=Barry | title=World's Air Forces |journal=Flight |date=4 October 1980 |volume=118 |number=3726 |page=1326}}</ref>
;{{BGR}}
* [[Bulgarian Air Force]] – five used from 1984 until 2011<ref name=sp/>
;{{flag|Cambodia}}
* [[Royal Cambodian Air Force]]
[[File:antonov.an-26.2409.czechaf.arp.jpg|thumb|right|An-26 of the [[Czech Air Force]]]]
;{{COG}}
* [[Congolese Air Force]] – one
;{{CSK}}
* [[Czechoslovak Air Force]]
;{{DDR}}
* [[Air Forces of the National People's Army|East German Air Force]]
;{{DEU}}
* [[German Air Force]]
[[File:Hungarian Air Force Antonov An-26 departs RIAT 14thJuly2014 arp.jpg|thumb|[[Hungarian Air Force]] Antonov An-26 departs [[RIAT]] at [[RAF Fairford]], [[England]]]]
;{{GNB}}
*[[Guinea-Bissau Air Force]]
;{{HUN}}
* [[Hungarian Air Force]] – 11 delivered from 1974, last one retired June 2020.<ref name=sp>{{cite magazine|last=Przeworski|first=Marcin|date=July 2017|title=Transportowa Europa cz.II|language= pl|magazine=Skrzydlata Polska |issue=7(2453)/2017|pages=38–46|issn=0137-866X}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Historical moments: Saying goodbye to the AN-26s|url=https://honvedelem.hu/cikk/tortenelmi-pillanat-bucsuzik-az-ancsa/|website=honvedelem.hu|date=11 June 2020|access-date=2021-01-25|archive-date=12 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612102128/https://honvedelem.hu/cikk/tortenelmi-pillanat-bucsuzik-az-ancsa/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
;{{IRQ}}
* [[Iraqi Air Force]]
[[File:Lithuanian Air Force Antonov AN-26 (04).jpg|thumb|right|An-26 of the [[Lithuanian Air Force]] (now retired)]]
;{{LTU}}
* [[Lithuanian Air Force]] – three operated
;{{flag|Madagascar}}
* [[Malagasy Air Force]] - two delivered in 1980<ref>{{harvnb|Cooper|Weinert|Hinz|Lepko|2011|page=34}}</ref>
;{{MLI}}
* [[Malian Air Force]] - one<ref>{{harvnb|Cooper|Weinert|Hinz|Lepko|2011|page=41}}</ref>
;{{MNG}}
* [[Military of Mongolia|Mongolian Air Defense Forces Command]] – four
;{{NER}}
* [[Military of Niger|Niger Air Force]] – one, bought from Libya in 1997<ref>{{cite web |last1=Delalande |first1=Arnaud |title=Niger's desert warriors |date=15 March 2018 |url=https://www.key.aero/article/nigers-desert-warriors |publisher=Key Publishing |access-date=9 May 2022}}</ref>
[[File:An-26(Peru).jpg|thumb|A Peruvian An-26]]
;{{flag|North Yemen}}
* [[Yemeni Air Force|Yemen Arab Republic Air Force]] - one<ref name="cooper">{{harvnb|Cooper|2018|p=11}}</ref>
;{{PAK}}
* [[Pakistani Air Force]]
;{{PER}}
* [[Peruvian Air Force]] – 22 operated from 1977 to 1993
[[File:Polish AN-26.jpg|thumb|right|An-26 of the [[Polish Air Force]] (Operated before 2009, now retired)]]
;{{POL}}
* [[Polish Air Force]] – 12 operated from 1972 to January 2009; retired<ref>{{in lang|pl}} D. Sałata, K. Sałata, A. Wrona, ''Pożegnanie Ana-26'' (Goodbye to An-26), "Skrzydlata Polska" Nr. 2/2009, p.28</ref>
[[File:An-26-slovak-3208.jpg|thumb|right|[[Slovak Air Force]] An-26 at Farnborough Airshow, 2008]]
;{{SVK}}
* [[Slovak Air Force]] – Two, retired in 2016, to be replaced by [[Alenia C-27J Spartan]] aircraft beginning in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=World Air Forces 2017|url=https://www.flightglobal.com/asset/14484|website=Flight Global|access-date=10 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731231249/https://www.flightglobal.com/asset/14484|archive-date=31 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=World Aif Forces 2016|website=Flight Global|access-date=10 August 2017|url=https://d3fod5fkpt74ph.cloudfront.net/f5975bad82fe4e9e8d7f2e21e2e6f39e/3395ff5ac4d54a05bf6baa0c63895356.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810171228/https://d3fod5fkpt74ph.cloudfront.net/f5975bad82fe4e9e8d7f2e21e2e6f39e/3395ff5ac4d54a05bf6baa0c63895356.pdf|archive-date=10 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Rossi|first1=Marco|title=First flight for Slovak Spartan|url=http://www.airforcesmonthly.com/2017/08/09/first-flight-for-slovak-spartan/|website=Air Forces Monthly|access-date=10 August 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170810115110/http://www.airforcesmonthly.com/2017/08/09/first-flight-for-slovak-spartan/|archive-date=10 August 2017|date=9 August 2017}}</ref>
;{{SOM}}
* [[Somali Air Corps]]
;{{flag|South Yemen}}
* [[Yemeni Air Force|People's Democratic Republic of Yemen Air Force]] - three bought in 1979<ref name="cooper" />
;{{SRB}}
* [[Serbian Air Force]] – one retired in 2023
;{{USSR}}
* [[Soviet Air Force]] – Passed on to successor states in 1991
* [[Soviet Naval Aviation]] –
;{{TZA}}
* [[Tanzanian Air Force]] – none; retired
;{{flag|Transnistria}}
*[[Armed Forces of Transnistria]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eurodemobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=10360|title=Tiraspol Air Base - Transnistria, Moldova|work=eurodemobbed.org.uk|access-date=22 October 2023}}</ref>
;{{TKM}}
* [[Military of Turkmenistan]] – ten
;{{USA}}
* [[United States Air Force]] – Operated 2003–2007 by the [[6th Special Operations Squadron]]<ref>{{cite web|title=6th Special Operations Squadron Fact Sheet|url=http://www2.hurlburt.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3496|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205112536/http://www2.hurlburt.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3496|archive-date=5 December 2008}}</ref>
[[File:251 Antonov An.26 Vietnamese Air Force (7878844912).jpg|thumb|right|[[Vietnam People's Air Force]] Antonov An-26]]
{{VNM}}
* [[Vietnam People's Air Force]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vietnam|url=https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVietDefenseVN%2Fposts%2F1427491164075728|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Facebook|language=en}}</ref>
;{{YUG}}
* [[SFR Yugoslav Air Force|Yugoslav Air Force]] – 14
;{{ZMB}}
* [[Zambian Air Force|Zambian Air Force and Air Defense Command]] – four