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Mali Air Force

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Air Force Staff Colour

[Aircraft marking of Mali] image located by Ivan Sache, 31 July 2012

"Le Figaro", 30 July 2012, shows a photo of President of the Republic Dioncounda Traoré back to Bamako after a two-month exile in France. On the photo, the President is presented the color of the Air Force Staff.

The flag is vertically divided green-yellow-red, that is, the national flag of Mali, charged in the middle with a badge, surrounded on top and bottom by a writing in black capital letters (the badge and the writing form a kind of eye):
- top: RÉPUBLIQUE DU MALI
- bottom: ÉTAT MAJOR ARMÉE DE L'AIR
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2012/07/30/01003-20120730ARTFIG00529-de-retour-au-mali-traore-peine-a-relancer-la-transition.php
Ivan Sache, 31 July 2012


Aircraft markings

Force Aerienne de la Republique du Mali was formed in 1961. Cochrane and Elliot (1998), [c2e98], report a roundel of (inside out) green-yellow-red, also used recently as the fin flash (previously the stripes in the national colours were used). However, the Album 2000, [pay00] reports the oposite colour order for the roundel: red-yellow-green.
Željko Heimer
, 31 May 2002 and Dov Gutterman, 20 June 2004

The source for the Album 2000 report is a newspaper photograph, dated 1999.
Armand du Payrat, 31 May 2002

I have a few books from the mid 80s with aircraft markings. One shows Mali with the 'reverse' roundel the same as Album 2000 (with the national flag as a fin flash).
Dean McGee, 1 June 2002

Mali Air force roundel & fin flash 1961-

[Aircraft marking of Mali]   [Aircraft marking of Mali] images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 5 July 2024

Mali Air force roundel & fin flash variant 1961-

[Aircraft marking of Mali]   [Aircraft marking of Mali] images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 5 July 2024