Argentine Air Force

Last modified: 2004-12-28 by antonio martins
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• Chief-of-Staff
• Vice Chief-of-Staff
• Roundel
• Fin flash

• Argentina

• official Argentine Air Force website, showing these and other flags. (Go to "misión y organización", then go to "estructura orgánica", then click on the boxes marked "jefatura" and "subjefatura" respectively.)
  Miles Li, 25 May 2000

Chief-of-Staff

There is also a flag for the Chief-of-Staff, which can be found in the official Argentine Air Force website, (Go to "misión y organización", then go to "estructura orgánica", then click on the box marked "jefatura".)
Miles Li, 25 May 2000

Vice Chief-of-Staff

There is also a flag for the Vice Chief-of-Staff, which can be found in the official Argentine Air Force website, (Go to "misión y organización", then go to "estructura orgánica", then click on the box marked "subjefatura".)
Miles Li, 25 May 2000

Roundel

Argentine Air Force aircrafts use a cockade blue-white-blue. (Source: [pay])
Ivan Sache, 25 Jun 1997

I went to the National Aeronautics Museum (Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica), and I checked the roundels on the planes for the proportions. They appeared to be three concentrics circles of radiuses 1:2:3. Inner and outer circles are light blue (traditional argentine celeste), middle circle is white.
Nicolas Rucks, 23 Jan 2000

Fin flash

Both Fuerza Aérea Argentina and Comando de Aviación Naval Argentina uses a square variant of the national flag as fin flash while the sun is replaced by a proeminent yellow/gold dot.
Dov Gutterman, 08 Oct 1999

I checked the book [whe86] again and also some photos of FAA planes and it sure look like a darker shade of blue. Using a darker shade is probably to make the symbols (roundel and fin flash) more visible.
Dov Gutterman, 10 Oct 1999

Well, I checked another source and it seems «The aircraft roundel has the same colors as the national ensign. (...) The fin flash is a miniature of the national flag and includes the “sun of May” marking in the center commemorating the country’s independence in 1810.»
Dov Gutterman, 10 Oct 1999

Album 2000 [pay00] says in a note that the national flag is painted on the fin.
Željko Heimer, 03 Feb 2001