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image by Zoltán Horváth, 27 August 2024
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The flag of Air Force is blue with its yellow emblem and its name written over the emblem in an arc with yellow letters.
Zoltán Horváth, 27 August 2024
image by Zoltán Horváth, 27 August 2024
image: pol.una.py
The flag of Air Force commander is similar to those of the Air Force, but four yellow stars are placed over the emblem instead of inscription.
Zoltán Horváth, 27 August 2024
The Fuerza Aérea del Paraguay was formed in 1927 as the Fuerzas
Aéreas del Ejército Nacional Paraguayo and changed its name
in 1932 to the Fuerzas Aéreas Nacionales del Paraguay. It was dissolved
in 1938 and reformed in 1946.
Dov Gutterman, 22 Jun 2004
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 4 August 2024
image: [1]
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 4 August 2024
image: [1]
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 4 August 2024
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According to the book [cos98],
from 1929-1938 the wing tip had diagonal stripes of
blue-white-red and the rudder had horizontal stripes of red-white-blue,
with yellow star on the white stripes.
Book [cos98] also reports that in 1945 the
rudder stripes were converted into fin flash, without the star.
Photo
at AeroFlight.Co.UK shows a fin flash with yellow star. Note that photos
in Insignia magazine
(“Paraguayan
Bombers in the Gran Chaco War”, i.e., 1928-1935)
show the rudder stripes (even though without the star as a photo at
AirLiners.NET).
Hoowever, such fin flash is probably in use only on combat planes as seen at
the FighterJocks
website.
Dov Gutterman, 22 Jun 2004
Shown in [pay00]:
Rectangular, 2:3, tricolour of red over white over blue with yellow
five-pointed star in the middle white stripe (star not reaching the
edges of it).
Željko Heimer, 26 Oct 2002
Shown also in Album 1995 recapitulative
issue [pie95].
Željko Heimer, 27 Oct 2002
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 4 August 2024
image: [1]
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 4 August 2024
image: [1]
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 4 August 2024
image: [1]
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 5 August 2024
image: [1]
According to the book [cos98],
this roundel was adopted in 1945. However, Insignia magazine
shows the roundel well before 1945 in an article
“Paraguayan
Bombers in the Gran Chaco War” (1928-1935).
Dov Gutterman, 22 Jun 2004
Shown in [pay00]:
Roundel of red-white-blue.
Željko Heimer, 26 Oct 2002
Shown also in Album 1995 recapitulative
issue [pie95].
Željko Heimer, 27 Oct 2002
The book [cos98] also reports that
the Naval air arm uses the same roundel
but uperinposed by an anchor, and that the Army
aviation uses it also, with no modifications.
Dov Gutterman, 22 Jun 2004
Excuse my ignorance on air force markings, but how is this roundel
supposed to be different from the French Air
Force one?
Santiago Dotor, 28 Oct 2002
Insignia magazine reports an unofficial markings used in the
Gran Chaco War era, 1928-1935, as «Red star on a White disc, with a central
Blue dot with a White outline» (article
“Paraguayan
Bombers in the Gran Chaco War”).
Dov Gutterman, 22 Jun 2004
image by Zoltán Horváth, 5 August 2024
images: planespotters.net, Twitter
