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Iran: Air Force

image located by Bill Garrison, 26 December 2016

Air Force flags
Air Defense Force flag
Air force colour
Roundel and Fin flash

See also:

Iran

Air Force flags

Blue "Derafsh"-style flags, currently in use in Iran.
William Garrison, 26 December 2016

Air Force of Iran

Obverse / Reverse
images by William Garrison, 4 September 2019

"Nirooy-e Havaei-e Jomhoriy-e Eslami-e Iran" = Air Force of Iran
Reverse using Army logo.
William Garrison, 4 September 2019

Ceremonial Flag Obverse / Reverse
images by William Garrison, 4 September 2019

"Artesh-e" logo Obverse / Reverse
images by William Garrison, 4 September 2019

Black background on reverse.
William Garrison, 4 September 2019

Air Defense Force flag

image located by William Garrison, 30 August 2019

Obverse / Reverse

images by William Garrison, 5 September 2019

"Qaragah-e Radafand-e Khatam" = Air Defense Force, a sub-section of the "army" (ceremonial flag design).

Reverse shows "al-Anbiya" = "the prophets" --- AJA (AJA: "Artesh-e Johahooriya Eslamiye Iran") artesh = army.
William Garrison, 5 September 2019

Variant

images by William Garrison, 6 September 2019

"Khatam al-Anbiya" = "Air Defense Force of Artesh"
William Garrison, 6 September 2019

Air force colour

image located by Ian Sumner, 24 October 2007

I've collected a few pictures of Iranian colours from a number of websites over the years - I guess this might be an air force flag based on the colour of the uniform.
Ian Sumner, 24 October 2007

Roundel and Fin Flash

images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 15 June 2024

Green-white-red roundel.
Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]
Zeljko Heimer, 13 November 2001

Formed in 1924 as l'Aeronautique Persane, renamed in 22 March 1935 into Nirou Havai Shahanshahiye Iran (Imperial Iranian AF - IIAF) and changed after the revolution into Islamic Republic of Iran AF, it always used the same roundel - classic red-white-green with green-white-red horizontal stripe as rudder stripes or fin flash. According to Cochrane and Elliott (1998) the only change was to replace the fuselage marking from stripes to the roundel (the wings always had a roundel) and changing the rudder stripes to a fin flash in 1930. Jane's 1945 shows rudder stripes.

The IIAF have a homepage (probably operated outside Iran) at http://www.iiaf.net/home.html# and even on the homepage we can see both possibilities for tail insignia. As the P-47 didn't exist in 1930, the change in the tail insignia was much later than 1930 (probably with the Jets era in 1956).

The same markings were used by the Imperial Iranian Navy - air wing and the Imperial Iranian Army Aviation as well as today by the Islamic Republic of Iran Army Aviation, Islamic Republic of Iranian Navy Aviation, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy.
Dov Gutterman, 17 June 2004

The fin flash is a simple horizontal tricolour of green-white-red. The aircraft markings have virtually not changed since some initial minor variations in the 1920s.
Source: Military Aircraft Insignia of the World Cochrane and Elliott (1998)
Zeljko Heimer, 13 November 2001