^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

Ukraine – Air Force flags and markings

Consolidated Air Force Detachment of the Armed Forces
Aircraft Markings – Overview
Air Force Aircraft Marking
Naval Aircraft Marking
Fin Flash Marking
Air Force Roundel 1918–1919
Air Force Roundel & Fin Flash Variant 1918–1919
Ukrainian People's Republic Air Fleet Roundel & Fin Flash 1918–1921
Air Force Roundel & Fin Flash 1919–1920
Air Force Roundel 1920–1922
Air Force Roundel & Fin Flash 1991–1992
Air Force Roundel & Fin Flash 1992–
Air Force Roundel Variant 1992
Navy Aviation Roundel 1992–
Navy Roundel & Fin Flash Variant 1992–
"Novorossiya" Air Force Roundel & Fin Flash 2014–2015

Air Force Flag

See also:

Ukraine – Military Flags
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Ukraine
Aircraft Roundels and Fin Flashes
ROUNDEL in Dictionary of Vexillology
World map with roundels (picture)

Consolidated Air Force Detachment of the Armed Forces

image located by William Garrison
(source)

Caption: Ukrainian flag of the "consolidated detachment" of Ukrainian Air Forces.
In September 2014, the process of filling a new detachment of Ukraine's Air Forces with volunteer fighters has started. These servicemen were soon engaged in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). Servicemen are stationed near the city of Avdiivka Donetsk region. Despite heavy shelling and extreme hardships, they continue to defend an important foothold close to the Donetsk airport.
Exhibition Ukrainian flags-relics at St. Sophia Square in Kyiv (23–25 August 2015)
William Garrison, 16 August 2022

Aircraft Markings – Overview

Getting independent from Russia in 1917 brought Ukraine almost to chaos, No less then four local air corps were formed, and if you add foreign corps that joined the "celebration", it is quite understood that no one found the time to put thing in order concerning marking. [cos98] reported various markings but I suspect that each report is made upon a single photo and there were much more variations.

There was "Povitrovvi Fl'ot" (Ukrainian People's Republic Air Fleet) and there was the Aviation Regiment of the Ukrainian Galician Army of the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic and there was the Army of the Don Republic and there was the Red Ukrainian Air Fleet.

[cos98] reported that the Povitrovvi Fl'ot used: white disc with yellow blue rings, yellow outlined trident, yellow (fully colored) trident, chequered 2x2 blue yellow square, blue trident on yellow square bordered blue. Ukrainian Galician Army is reported to have a yellow-blue roundel and yellow skull and bones on white disc bordered blue. Don Republic used blue triangle on white disc. Red Ukrainian Air Fleet used the Red Army marking. Website (gr.fipu.krasnoyarsk.edu) show a yellow-blue roundel and national flag as fin flash.
In 1991 Ukraine Air Force (www.mil.gov.ua) adopted new markings consist of blue yellow roundel (www.airliners.net/210034) and yellow trident on red shield as fin flash (www.airliners.net/452812). Those markings are used until today.

However, incorrectly [cos98] shown those markings are in 1991–1992, reports show that from 1992 onward markings are a yellow shield on a blue disc, both as roundel and fin flash. I think that the base for this mistake is that in 1992, the Ukraine air force sent a MiG-29C for series of displays and air-shows in USA and Canada. As needed by this occasion, the plane was re-painted in blue-yellow finish and trident-on-shield-on-disc markings (www.airliners.net/311644). As far as sources show, this was the only plane that had such markings. As expected, the media was overwhelmed by the sight of the former enemy best fighter come to a such visit, and spread the photos everywhere (I found 12 websites show photos of this plane). This was probably enough to come to conclusion that those are the new Ukrainian marking. However, there were 6 years between this visit and [cos98] in which other photos were published, including another well painted MiG-29UB that visit the UK in 1996 with proper marking (www.airliners.net/301495) so this could be fixed ...

Dov Gutterman, 27 June 2004

Regulation of aircraft markings by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (in Ukrainian).
located by Zachary Harden

☞ The Air Force of Ukraine came into being on March 17, 1992 following the break-up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent declaration of independence by Ukraine.