Moroccan Air Force Insignia

Last modified: 2014-04-19 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Fuselage Marking
• Fin flash
• Pre-1990 markings
• other

• Moroccan military flags

• article “Morocco, Mauritania & West Sahara since 1972”
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 20 Jun 2004
• www.scramble.nl/ma.htm and www.fighter-jets.de/fighterjets/luftwaffen.php?land=mar&attr=mar&teil=m
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 20 Jun 2004

Fuselage Marking

image by Željko Heimer, 11 Jun 2002

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 19 Mar 2009

The Album 2000 [pay00] shows red roundel bordered green with green pentagram in it topped with yellow stylized crown voided green.
Željko Heimer, 11 Jun 2002

Cochrane and Elliott 1998 show a green Solomon seal with a gold crown above on red disc, while Wheeler 1986 shows a gold Solomon seal (inside areas in green). Both are correct:
Alkowat al malakiya al jawiya (formed 19 November 1956) uses green seal (red inside) on non-combat planes

• www.airliners.net/open.file/023022/L/
• www.airliners.net/open.file/478650/L/
• www.maxdecals.com/htmlpages/morocco.htm

• www.acig.org/artman/uploads/ws07.jpg
• www.acig.org/artman/uploads/ws08.jpg

Fin flash

The Album 2000 shows red square bordered green and with green pentagram in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 11 Jun 2002

Al Qawwat al Jawwiya al Malakiya Marakishiya (Maroccan Royal Air Force) uses a square variant of the national flag with the star is outlined in gold as fin flash. The source is Wheeler 1986. In the photo the gold outline can’t be seen so it is questionable.
Dov Gutterman, 12 Oct 1999

Wheeler 1986 shows square form of national flag (solomon seal in gold again) as fin flash; Cochrane and Elliott 1998 show a a national flag as fin flash. Both are correct: Fin flash can be sqare , can be rectangle and can be swift back on part of the rudder as all those photos show.
Dov Gutterman, 20 Jun 2004

Pre-1990 markings

Pre-1990’s roundel is similar to the current one — without green border, and with a more complex crown similarly as in the contemporary naval ensign, also with green parts within the arches. The national flag was painted on the fin back then.
Željko Heimer, 11 Jun 2002

One roundel is a red disc, fimbriated green with a green 5-point star, which is superimposed by a yellow pentagram. Above the star is a yellow royal crown.
Source: David Donald: "Taschenhandbuch der Militärflugzeuge" ;ISBN: 3-89880-122-5; p.177
Klaus-Michael Schneider 19 Mar 2009

other

Police air wing is using civil registration and police emblem as fin flash. See: www.airliners.net/open.file/586621/L/
Dov Gutterman, 20 Jun 2004

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